Washington State will be number 7!

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04 Feb 2012, 1:21 am

Unless the unforeseen happens - -

The Sate of Washington will soon become the seventh state in the union to make gay marriage legal!

HOO! HOO!

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

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04 Feb 2012, 3:04 am

And ever so slowly, America welcomes in some aspects of the modern age :lol:

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04 Feb 2012, 5:51 am

Yay! I'm so proud! *sniff*

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04 Feb 2012, 7:20 am

the usual suspects [bigoted hypocritical bible thumping bullies] are [again!] already collecting signatures for an anti-gay referendum this fall. i believe this time they will win. washington voters are in an ugly [read: republican landslide] mood this year. i sure hope i am wrong.

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04 Feb 2012, 7:39 am

Yay!! ! Next they will legalize incest, polygamy and maybe even bestiality! Good times! (troll war begins now)

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04 Feb 2012, 2:41 pm

Rax wrote:

Yay!! ! Next they will legalize incest, polygamy and maybe even bestiality! Good times! (troll war begins now)

Thank you for your comment, Rick Santorum.

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05 Feb 2012, 9:38 am

Rax wrote:

Yay!! ! Next they will legalize incest, polygamy and maybe even bestiality! Good times! (troll war begins now)

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06 Feb 2012, 1:52 pm

Rax wrote:

Yay!! ! Next they will legalize incest, polygamy and maybe even bestiality! Good times! (troll war begins now)

The trouble with the "floodgates" argument is that it doesn't address the issue at hand, but attempts to inflate the issue into something larger.

Extending the vote to men who didn't own property certainly paved the way to extending the vote to women, to aboriginals, and to people aged 18. But it didn't pave the way to extending the vote to children, or to non-citizens. But a floodgates argument against women's suffrage could certainly have posited, "What's next, voting rights for foreigners?"

The truth is that we evaluate each issue as it comes before us. That which was unthinkable a century, or even a decade ago becomes politically realistic. That which was politically leading edge a century ago is now an inviolable right. Will we legalize polygamy one day? Perhaps we will. But it won't be as a result of legalizing gay marriage today, it will be a result of people who want to legalize polygamy making the case and moving political opinions.

Incest and bestiality? I have trouble seeing legislative progress on those fronts. Bestiality is inherently non-consenual, and incest creates too much potential for abuse and coercive behaviour. They are substantively different from polygamy.

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06 Feb 2012, 11:13 pm

auntblabby wrote:

I wouldn't be too pessimistic. The liberal areas around Seattle and King County (correct me if I'm wrong, for I do not live in Washington) essentially swung the entire state toward approving that domestic partnerships law back in 2009. Perhaps the same thing will happen with same-sex marriage should it be put on the ballot?

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06 Feb 2012, 11:41 pm

YAYYYYY!
Too bad washington has a bad police brutality record or I would move there.

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07 Feb 2012, 12:07 am

Descartes wrote:

A gay rights group actually miscalculated quite badly some years ago in this state and put gay marriage directly on the ballot, only to come up short in the election. Washington is surprisingly conservative outside of the major cities, and the entire Eastern half of the state is essentially rural with the voting habits to match. Hopefully they'll do better this time, I think the numbers have shifted towards acceptance since the last time this was on the ballot.

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07 Feb 2012, 2:20 am

Dox47 wrote:

Descartes wrote:

The entire eastern half of Washington is rural?
I think you've forgotten about Spokane, and the cluster of smaller cities around it, like my own Spokane Valley, as well as Hillyard, Millwood, and Mead - all of which might as well be parts of Spokane. It ought to be remembered that Obama actually carried Spokane, and there is an increasingly outspoken gay community here. I wouldn't count out Washington's east side regarding gay rights just yet.

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09 Feb 2012, 5:42 am

Last I heard, they are just waiting for the governor's signature.

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09 Feb 2012, 6:02 am

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Last I heard, they are just waiting for the governor's signature.

Yep, and she had promised to sign when she had first pushed to legalize gay marriage in the state legislature.

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13 Feb 2012, 7:01 pm

And Washington Governor Christine Gregoire has just signed gay marriage into law, 2/13/12, just one day before Valentine's Day!

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13 Feb 2012, 8:11 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:

And Washington Governor Christine Gregoire has just signed gay marriage into law, 2/13/12, just one day before Valentine's Day!

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Congratulations to Washington, for joining the civilized world :lol:

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