2020 CO Senatorial race: on Civil Rights

Cory Gardner: Against same-sex marriage but now law of the land

Corey Gardner: Mixed. Sees marriage as only between a man and woman, but calls same-sex marriage "the law of the land, and it is important that we treat everyone with dignity and respect."

John Hickenlooper: Yes. "If all people are created equal, then by extension of law, logic, and love, every adult couple should also have the freedom to join in marriage."

Dan Baer: I'm lucky to have grown up gay, but there's still work to do

"I feel lucky, in a sense, to be gay--which is something weird for me to say given the number of years I felt like that was an albatross around my neck and thinking it was going to keep me from leading a fulfilling life," Baer says while seated beside his husband, climate economist Brian Walsh, in their Five Points home. "I feel like I'm fortunate to have grown up gay in a place"--he spent his formative years in Littleton--"that wasn't yet hospitable to LGBT people. Obviously, there's still work to do. But that shaped me in ways that's been a driving force behind my human-rights work, because it made me care about creating the ability for people to live lives of their own choosing."