Episode 131: Float, Bitch. Float. | Clela Rorex and the Army of God

Hillary and Tina cover Boulder County Clerk Clela Rorex and the Army of God.

Hillary’s Story
Clela Rorex served as the first female Boulder County Clerk beginning in 1975, BUT she made history as being the first clerk to ever issue a same sex marriage license in the US.

Tina’s Story
The Army of God is an underground American anti-abortion group BUT after claiming involvement in several anti-abortion acts of violence, they are now listed as a domestic terrorist group.

Hillary's Sources
Anchor:The Amber Live! Interviews
Clela Rorex, the first person to issue a gay marriage license in the USA in 1975

Boulder
Boulder’s LGBT history has many lessons to teach, including that backlash often follows progress--by Carol Taylor and Glenda Russell

Daily Camera
Man and horse ride into sunset as Boulder County updates photo collage--by Charlie Brennan

Esquire
How One Woman Married Gay Couples Forty Years Ago--by Jack Holmes

Wikipedia
Clela Rorex
Same-sex marriage in Colorado

Photos
Cleala Rorex--via Get Boulder
McCord and Zamora applying for marriage licsense--from Clela Rorex via Esquire
Marriage Liscenses issued by Rorex--from Boulder County Clerk's Office via Esquire
Ros Howard and his horse, Dolly--via Daily Camera

Tina's Sources
ABC 7 Chicago
Feds: Indiana man linked to "anti-abortion extremist organization" threatened clinic attacks--by Chuck Goudie and Ross Weidner

CBS News
Court Orders Robert Dear To Involuntarily Take Meds

Daily Kos
“Army of God” Kidnapper Released After Abducting Abortion Care Provider 24 Years Ago

Feminist Majority
Extremist “Army of God” Group Takes Credit for Atlanta Bombings, Promises to Attack Again

France 24
Suspect in Colorado clinic shooting said 'no more baby parts'

History
Doctor is killed by anti-abortion radical

Justice
OREGON WOMAN CHARGED IN ARSON, ACID AND NAPALM ATTACKS ON NINE ABORTION CLINICS
ROBERT WEILER SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ATTEMPTING TO BOMB AN ABORTION CLINIC IN GREENBELT

Ms. Magazine
The Anti-Abortion Movement Has a Long History of Terrorism. A Roe Repeal Will Make It Worse--by Kathy Spillar

National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism
Army of God

The New York Times
[3 are dead in Colorado Springs Shootout at Planned Parenthood Center]((https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/us/colorado-planned-parenthood-shooting.html)--by Julie Turkewitz and Jack Healy

Abortion Doctor and Wife are Freed--by Nathaniel Sheppard, Jr.

Has Trump’s White House ‘resurrected’ Army of God anti-abortion extremists?--by Lara Whyte

Reveal
Abortion Providers Ask for Protection as They Prepare for Post-Roe Harassment and Violence--by Laura C. Morel

Sanganmon County
‘Army of God’ kidnappings (1982)

Southern Poverty Law Center
ANTI-ABORTION MOVEMENT MARCHES ON AFTER TWO DECADES OF ARSON, BOMBS AND MURDER--by Frederick Clarkson

UPI
Dr. Hector Zevallos, who last summer was held captive

Washington Post
FROM PRISON BACK TO P.G. PULPIT--by Sue Anne Pressley

Kidnaping Focuses Tensions and Fears On Abortion Clinic--By Bill Peterson

Wikipedia
Paul Jennings Hill
Shelley Shannon

Photos
Acts of Anti-Abortion Violence--from National Abortion Federation via Ms. Magazine