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WA: Poll Shows 50% Support Marriage Equality, 46% Opposed

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

New York Gay Marriage PollA new Public Policy Polling survey shows that voters in Washington state are split on whether to uphold marriage equality, with 50 percent saying they’ll support the new law and 46 percent saying they’d vote to repeal it.

Still, 78 percent back some form of legal recognition for same-sex couples and even 59 percent of Republicans support offering civil unions.

Full Story from Think Progress

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WA: Infighting Begins Between Marriage Equality Opponents

Monday, February 20th, 2012

Washington State Marriage Equality OpponentsSignature gathering to stop gay marriage in Washington state has not even begun yet, but signs of disharmony have already emerged among those leading the charge.

It appears two separate camps of gay-marriage opponents will be running simultaneous campaigns this spring. Stephen Pidgeon, candidate for attorney general and a gay-marriage opponent, is behind Initiative 1192, which seeks to reaffirm the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.

Joseph Backholm, executive director of the Family Policy Institute of Washington, who has emerged as a spokesman for the movement against gay marriage, filed Ref. 74 just hours after Gov. Chris Gregoire signed legislation to make same-sex marriage legal. The referendum would put the legislation to a public vote, asking voters to approve or reject it.

Full Story from the Seattle Times

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WA: Motorcycle Rally for Marriage Equality Needs Participants, Couple to Marry

Monday, February 20th, 2012

Rick Santorum and ashington State Marriage EqualityOur friend Brian Moore just sent us this:

I am excited to announce the Rally For Rights – a motorcycle rally to support marriage equality! On May 12, 2012 the rally will start in Seattle and end in Olympia, specific locations yet to be determined. Activities will be the ride, a few scheduled stops, culminating in a support rally at our state capitol hopefully a wedding(s) or proposals…something in the spirit of marriage equality!

I am also looking for a couple that would like to get married at the end of the rally – I can just imagine what it will be like to have all the motorcycles rev and honk horns as the happy couple kiss.

Registration is $20 for bike and rider, $10 for passengers and anyone who registers by 4/21/12 will get a Rally For Rights t-shirt with our awesome logo displayed for all to see.

I am looking for three persons to be on my organizing board – be excited, be the possibility of being amazing, and be ready to work! I am also looking for fund raisers, get-the-word-outters, and oh yeah…PARTICIPANTS!!!!! Riders and passengers, adventure bikes, cruisers, street racers, scooters, – if it has less than four wheels and some sort of motor, you are welcome to ride :)

If you have any questions, comments, concerns, please contact me through e-mail at rallyforrights@gmail.com e-mail, or my cell phone at four two five three four four one five seven nine.

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WA: Problems With the Wording for One of the Two Challenges to Marriage Equality

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

Washington State Marriage Equality RepealThe Washington State Attorney General’s office has released its proposed ballot language for Referendum 74, which would overturn the marriage equality law passed and signed by the governor this month.

The bill would redefine marriage to allow same-sex couples to marry, apply marriage eligibility requirements without regard to gender, and specify that laws using gender-specific terms like “husband” and “wife” include same-sex spouses. Clergy could refuse to solemnize or recognize any marriages. Religious organizations and religiously affiliated educational institutions could refuse to accommodate weddings. The measure would not affect licensing of religious organizations providing adoption, foster-care, or child-placement. Domestic partnerships for seniors would be preserved.

There is a five-day period for anyone to challenge the language. Once the language is finalized–Thurston County Superior Court will take up any challenges–the sponsors can begin collecting signatures. They have until June 6–90 days after the conclusion of this year’s legislative session–to turn in 120,153 valid signatures.

Full Story from Publicola

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WA: Referendum 71 Donor Information Now Available Online

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Washington R-71 SignaturesDominic Holden reports at Slog:

After years in federal courts and months of transcription, WhoSigned.Org went live this afternoon with a searchable database that includes the names and addresses of people who signed Referendum 71 in 2009. The referendum petition, circulated by anti-gay activists with the group Protect Marriage Washington, was an attempt to overturn Washington State’s domestic partnership law that granted same-sex couples the same state rights as marriage.

Full Story from Joe.My.God

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WA: Two Competing Measures In the Works to Repeal Marriage Equality Law

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Washington State Marriage Equality RepealOpponents of Washington state’s new gay marriage law want voters to select “no” on the November 2012 ballot. And also “yes.” That seeming paradox stems in competing efforts launched this week by two groups dedicated to the cause of keeping Washington from joining six other states and the District of Columbia from legalizing same-sex matrimony.

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They have until June 6 to gather the 120,577 valid signatures needed to secure a spot on the 2012 ballot. If the referendum qualifies, the gay marriage statute — already on hold until June 7 under the standard waiting period for new laws — would be kept from taking effect before the election. A majority of “no” votes on the referendum question in November would strip the new law from the books altogether.

But Thursday morning, a different repeal coalition, Protect Marriage Washington 2012, plans to start collecting signatures for Initiative 1192, asking voters to say “yes” to a measure that would define marriage as between one man and one woman. In contrast to a statewide referendum, initiatives have until July 6 to obtain 241,154 signatures, and only the referendum can delay the gay marriage law from taking effect before the election.

Full Story from GayToday

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WA: Anti Marriage Equality Forces At Odds Behind the Scenes?

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Washington State Anti Marriage Equality GroupsNational Organization for Marriage is going to have their hands full trying to control all the back-biting factions within Washington’s anti-gay industry. Did they know what they were in for when they decided to spend upwards of $6 million to interfere in the affairs of a state 2,500 miles distant from their offices in Washington, D.C.?

Dominic Holden reported in The Stranger that apparently there was competition among the anti-gay locals to be the first to file a referendum challenging Washington’s new marriage equality law.

Pastor Joe Fuiten walked into the Washington Secretary of State’s office this morning to file a referendum attempting to overturn the same sex-marriage law that lawmakers passed last week. One problem: Governor Chris Gregoire hadn’t signed the bill yet. So election workers turned him away with a 3:30 p.m. appointment to return (after the bill was signed), says Secretary of State’s office spokesman David Ammons. Also this morning: Family Policy Institute of Washington director Joseph Backholm waltzed in with his own, separate plans to file a marriage referendum. Same problem, of course.

“I’d heard for a few days that they are not in sync on this,” Ammons says.

Full Story from Pam’s House Blend

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WA: Referendum 73 Filed to Overturn Marriage Equality at Ballot Box

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Referendum 73 to Repeal Washington State Marriage EqualityOpponents of same-sex marriage in Washington filed paperwork seeking a referendum on the newly signed marriage equality law, less than three hours after Governor Chris Gregoire signed it into law yesterday, the SeattlePI reports:

They have until June 6, a political D-Day for collecting and submitting 120,577 valid voter signatures to put marriage equality on the November ballot. The right of same-sex couples to wed would be blocked until voters decide the issue.

“Marriage is reserved for a man, a woman and the children that they raise,” said Joseph Backholm of the Family Policy Institute of Washington. The state of Washington should not be “validating” gay and lesbian relationships, Backholm told reporters at the Secretary of State’s office. Sponsors of Referendum 73 include groups at the right end of the political spectrum such as Concerned Women for America and the National Organization for Marriage.

Full Story from Towleroad.com

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WA: Referendum 71 Vote Explains Some Legislators’ Votes on Marriage Equality

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Washington State Marriage Equality VoteTo understand the no vote cast on same-sex marriage by state Rep. Steve Kirby, a Tacoma lawmaker who usually sides with his fellow Democrats, look at how the people in his district voted in 2009 on the successful referendum giving gay couples “everything but marriage.”

In its new shape after post-census redistricting, Kirby’s diverse South Tacoma and east Lakewood district still leans heavily to the Democrats. But within its boundaries, voters opposed the expansion of domestic partnerships by a ratio of 55-45.

Hence Kirby’s vote Wednesday against gay marriage, when the bill passed the House. It passed the Senate last week.

Full Story from the Seattle Times

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WA: Governor Gregoire to Sign Marriage Equality Bill Monday

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Washington State Marriage EqualityGov. Chris Gregoire will sign a measure legalizing gay marriage in Washington state into law on Monday.

The House passed the bill on a 55-43 vote on Wednesday. The Senate approved the measure last week. Gregoire will sign the bill at 11:30 a.m. Monday.

The law would take effect 90 days after the session ends next month, but opponents have promised to fight back with a ballot measure that would allow voters to overturn it.

Full Story from KNDO

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