<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_States" id="mwAXo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="LGBT rights in the United States">Civil rights</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" id="mwAXs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court of the United States</a> rules in <i id="mwAXw"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romer_v._Evans" id="mwAX0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Romer v. Evans">Romer v. Evans</a></i> against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado" id="mwAX4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Colorado">Colorado</a> from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality" id="mwAX8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Homosexuality">gays and lesbians</a>.<sup about="#mwt98" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"}}' id="cite_ref-17" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_20#cite_note-17" id="mwAYA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAYE">[16]</span></a></sup>
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