Colorado lawmakers kill vote on same-sex marriage ban News
Colorado lawmakers kill vote on same-sex marriage ban

[JURIST] Colorado's House Judiciary Committee [official website] have killed SB 140 [PDF text], a bill that would have allowed Colorado voters in the upcoming November election to vote on the addition of a same-sex marriage ban to the state Constitution. The measure was killed Tuesday on a 6-5 party line division after Democrats declared that it was unconstitutional to write discrimination into the state Constitution. A spokesman for Equal Rights Colorado [advocacy website] said the state already had a Defense of Marriage Act passed in 2000 which already banned same-sex marriages, but supporters of the bill believed that the statute could be easily overturned. In last November's election, 11 states passed similar bans and there are currently 15 other states considering similar measures. AP has more.

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UN General Assembly approves Palestine partition plan

The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

UN divided Palestine between Arabs and Jews

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab territories, leading to the establishment of a Jewish state the following year. Read UN General Assembly Resolution 181.

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