Comments on: Gay rights supporters won’t appeal vote on gay benefits

By: Riley1080

Riley1080 — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:51:45 +0000

awww im never gonna get married now i’m sick of this why don’t people mind their own god damn business just let us be us and they can go do whatever shit they wanna do. I’m sad and ive been for a long time about this. I wanna get married and be like everyone else except with a man. damnt ill just have to move away somewhere else but I don’t wanna leave i love seattle to much and, my family.

By: Southernhemisphere

Southernhemisphere — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:30:27 +0000

Good Luck and God Bless.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:08:32 +0000

By having this referendum on our rights, made possible by the secretary of state and attorney general aiding and abetting voter fraud, Washington is just once again enforcing a “fag tax” against us. Not only have gay couples had to spend thousands of dollars to protect ourselves minimally in the way that married couples are automatically protected, but now we will have to spend millions of dollars to get domestic partner rights. This would be bad enough had the referendum actually gotten enough legitimate signatures to make it to the ballot, but it is outrageous that the referendum got to the ballot only because of fraud.

By: michaelnDallas

michaelnDallas — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:38:22 +0000

when will these groups do something positive to protect marriage. Like make divorce more difficult or propose classes for couples before they get married, only to realize they are ready and their spouse isn’t the right one. Before they NEED to break their convenant of Marriage. Gay couples seem to learn this and stay together longer then their heterosexual counterparts.

By: bama-stu

bama-stu — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:49:43 +0000

I don’t know how many people saw the report, but the divorce rate in Massachusetts is the lowest in the nation, and has only fallen more since we gained marriage equality in that state. So far from “destroying” marriage it seems we are actually able to “save” it. I truly wish there was some kind of national LGBT mailing list (like the ones the Republicans and Christians have) so we could mobilize. Can you imagine the impact if every newspaper, magazine and television news editor was inundated with mail from LGBT people letting them now about this and other issues. Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but it sure would be nice.

By: Don Roberts

Don Roberts — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:15:40 +0000

I applaud Washington Families Standing Together for their decision. It’s pretty obvious that any further legal action would be a waste of their resources. I hope they use their resources in educating Washington voters that same-sex relationships are not the evil, vile, or destructive to the fabric of our society that our foes make them out to be.

It takes action and resources on our part to get the message out that people realize how bigoted and subjugating the ultra conservative churches are to man and woman kind. Obviously we’re a threat to these churches because knowledge and acceptance has always been a threat to religious dictatorship. The more people understand and see the workings of God in ending discrimination and bigotry, even today, the less the grip of religious instutions have in people deciding what is important in their lives. Jesus’s message of social tollerance and justice is just as radical today as it was back then. When churches have been forced back into their place in society, which is outside of politics, science, and the arts, then society then has the chance to blossom and evolve. History has repeatedly shown us this.

By: Wayne M.

Wayne M. — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:48:36 +0000

If the pro-equality and pro-family groups such as “Washington Families Standing Together” work hard to motivate supporters to go out and fight for equality and encourage all our allies including progressive religious allies to make their voice heard, perhaps we can win this battle after all.

As for groups like “Protect Marriage Washington”, supporters need to show the truth that these groups are doing nothing to protect marriage, but rather only to protect a definition of marriage– and that this group would more honestly be named, “Restrict Marriage Washington”.

TO SUPPORTERS OF EQUALITY IN MAINE AND WASHINGTON: GET OUT THERE AND FIGHT AND FIGHT HARD! NO COMPLACENCY AND NO APATHY!

By: pstreeto

pstreeto — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:13:06 +0000

That’s too bad…it’s obvious the ONLY way we win is in court…they should’ve kept going…it’s a disappointment.

By: Kyle from NEPA

Kyle from NEPA — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:06:39 +0000

With any luck Washington will make an informed and intelligent decision. Let’s go Washington!!

By: Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:34:34 +0000

Stephen Pidgeon can fucking blow me.