Article by Mel Ulle
Remember the story about the guy who brought his horse Dolly to the county clerk in Boulder and said that he wanted a marriage license? Because he wanted to marry his horse. Remember how the punchline of that story (which turns out not to be an urban legend), was that the clerk asked how old the horse was and he said eight and the clerk said that was too young for Dolly to be married without parental permission?
Remember how the guy was just attempting to make a big media splash to show how crazy it was that two men could get married and the ensuing slippery slope argument? I remember this story. But what I never knew in all of my decades as a Coloradan was the significance of who this young county clerk was and what she did for the gay rights movement.
Clela Rorex was a young newly-elected county clerk when two gentlemen came into her office and requested a marriage certificate. Finding no legal argument against it, she granted the marriage certificate to them and thus created a firestorm.
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