Washington State Senate Committee Sends Gay-Marriage Vote To The Floor
Washington’s highly anticipated gay-marriage bill cleared a state Senate committee yesterday, which means it will head to a floor vote next. On Monday, it gained a crucial yes vote that makes its passage in the full Senate all but inevitable.
A date has not been set for the vote yet, but it should be soon.
The committee passed the bill after defeating a proposed amendment by Sen. Don Benton (R-Vancouver), that would have required sending the gay marriage law to the voters for approval. Of course, ant-gay marriage forces can still collect 120,577 signatures by July 6 to get a referendum onto the ballot in November.
It’s too early to celebrate. Like Phantom said, wait until before the law gets passed AND if there’s no referendum (or the referendum doesn’t get passed) before we can celebrate.
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This will most likely drag out til at least November as it’s all but inevitable that enough signatures will be gathered for a referendum. On the bright side Washington voters voted to uphold the “Everything but Marriage” bill passed by their legislature in 2009 by 53%.
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True, both of you…
But what I’m most happy about is that because of the pressure, the hypocritical asses in the legislature, knew that they would be forced to vote and held liable for their votes.
I”m tired of our lobbying groups avoiding votes and letting people off the hook. Better that they vote and be responsible for their votes to us.
Hopefully July will bring some good news.
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Who are these “ant-gay marriage forces”? Tell them to stop their ant-gay marriage lobbying! They’re making the rest of us normal gay people look bad. I want to marry a male human! I don’t want to marry a toaster or a horse! Quit trying to marry an ant! :O
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Thank you to the Gov. and the folks in Washington who made this happen!