Sunday, June 17, 2012

Washington gay marriage

  • SPOKANE, Wash. (RNS) Conservatives in Washington state claimed victory this month by collecting double the signatures needed to send the states same-sex marriage law to voters in the upcoming general election.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • A referendum that could overturn same-sex marriage in the state of Washington has qualified for the ballot, the secretary of states office announced Tuesday.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Washington State has joined Maryland, Maine and Minnesota in putting same-sex marriage on the ballot in November.
  • (Wall Street Journal)
  • OLYMPIA, Wash. — Evenly matched ballot fights over same-sex marriage have been about as rare in American politics as transits of Venus.
  • (New York Times)
  • The gay rights movement may have come further, faster than any civil rights movement in the nation's history. But the fight over same-sex marriage continues unabated.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washingtons gay marriage law was blocked from taking effect Wednesday, as opponents filed more than 200,000 signatures seeking a public vote on the issue in November.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) — Last summer a Pentagon spokeswoman said Thursday. Gay marriage has been perhaps the most difficult issue.
  • (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
  • A referendum on gay marriage in Washington state has qualified for the ballot. The secretary of states office announced Tuesday that Referendum 74 passed the signature-verification process that has been taking place since last week.
  • (Seattle Times)
  • forces last February on the new law that allows gay people to serve openly and recently Washington governor coming out in favor of gay marriage in that state, makes it reasonable to raise our expectations of the bigots hiding behind self-righteous masks.
  • (Huffington Post)

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