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State Democrats continued to assail Republican lawmakers on Tuesday for withholding funding for the Colorado Civil Rights Commission by hosting a sprawling rally outside the Capitol and leveling attacks the GOP say are untrue and amount to political theater.
All the while, the situation — related to a lightning-rod case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court involving a same-sex couple and a wedding-cake baker in Lakewood — has wound its way further into the workings of a powerful legislative body that is tasked with drafting the state budget and generally transcends partisanship.
