Comments on: Wa. domestic partner expansion faces challenge

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:30:19 +0000

All I am personally ask for is equal rights and fairness for all couplesin society as a hard-working decent person. Why is Referendum 71 beingfiled? This will take away rights (such as adoption, compensation,maternity leave entitlements, testifying with or against a partner, etc)that same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples over 62 are legallyentitled to. Do the people who filed Referendum 71 stop to think aboutmature-aged couples and same-sex couples with children at all? – I betthey did not. Referendum 71 will actually divide people and not bringpeople together as a nation. We can all do better than that. THIS IS NOTABOUT MARRIAGE AT ALL – This is about basis and decent rights that EVERYCOUPLE is legally entitled to. Marriage is NOT under threat at all – Infact I recently completed a sudy and found out that places were same-sexmarriage is legal have fewer divorces, more economic prosperity and moretolerance of liberal views and behaviors.

By: R & R

R & R — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:19:06 +0000

I read the Stickney website. I wonder what school this mentally challenged moron graduated from. The fact that pages and pages of absolute nonsense is available for everyone to read is scary. He is not able to factually support any of his ranting and raving. I suspect that he and his followers are all paying members of the “No Brains – No Headaches” organization. But, this kind of element is extremely dangersous. It would be nice if HRC would provide the print media with a position paper that counters all of the ridiculous positions that this idiot expounds upon – use the Harvey Milk methods: bury them in their own doo doo.

By: R & R

R & R — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:02:29 +0000

This group may be able to easily get enough signatures considering every church, temple, and every other place of worship is populated with narrow minded bigots who have turned their thinking process over to the bullshit artist that stands behind the pulpit. Remember what happened in California. It could very easily be repeated in Washington.

By: CaliberCarGuy

CaliberCarGuy — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:42:58 +0000

Yes do watch out of the petitioners, also if you see them petitioning in front of stores (especially chain stores etc) complain to the management and a lot of time they will be asked to leave (and if they don’t they will be trespassed, since from the street sidewalk in is private property) most business don’t want to anger customers by having political petitioners accost them to get them to sign things.

By: CaliberCarGuy

CaliberCarGuy — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:14:19 +0000

Lovely, just as there are glimmers of hope the “values alliance” comes to crush them. I certainly hope that the names on the potion and any contributors to a campaign are made public! Seriously these people don’t have more important things to do (given the state of the economy) then come after our civil rights?

By: David

David — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:15:44 +0000

I understand that they cannot start gathering signatures until Gov. Gregoire signs the legislation, and then they have to gather 120,500+ by some time in July…hence, I wonder if Gregoire will delay signing until the last minute so as to reduce their signature-gathering window of opportunity?

By: Keisha

Keisha — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:50:15 +0000

Watch out for these petitioners because they lie to people to get them to sign the petitions. Undermine them at every turn and make sure they are not lying to people.

By: LOrion

LOrion — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:22:00 +0000

BLEND: Lurleen: “UPDATE: THIS IS HUGE. Pastor Joe Fuiten, former brother-in-arms with Larry & Oregon Gary, sent out an e-mail this morning quoting clergy and other hard-core anti-LGBTs on how craven this referendum effort is, and why it will fail. No wonder Larry refused to name the members of the “broad-based coalition” he claimed Monday to be working with – it doesn’t exist. Read Fuiten’s e-mail at the bottom of the post.”
“This is what happens when your carpetbagging, tax-evading leader apparently drops out in disgrace and you replace him with an understudy who openly lies about legislation and thinks it’s smart to advertise his campaign FAILURES on his resume.”

….a very poor performance.

Strike 1: Stickney, for whatever reason, tried to slink into the Secretary of State’s office and failed to take advantage of free advertising via the press. This is a guy who bellyaches that the press is ignoring him (4/2/09 email), although he rarely sends out press releases and actively maligns the press by calling them the “Seattle-based homosexual lobby and their left wing media allies & enablers (4/15/09 email)” that supposedly turn a blind eye to the “denigrat[ion of] the faith of hundreds of thousands of Christians (4/3/09 email)” while “the mainstream media continu[es] their near blackout on the homosexual-marriage issue (3/8/09 email).” Despite all this name-calling, Larry still gets lots of attention from important papers such as the Yakima Herald. The Everett HeraldNet has quoted him in 29 stories and even the Seattle Times, which is in what Larry calls “the Seattle red zone”, quotes him in 11 stories.
I would link you to the emails referenced above, but Larry is sloppy and hasn’t updated the e-mail alerts or much else on his website lately. Disorganization and poor follow-through plus his constant attack of the news media — I’m starting to guess why his other campaigns have been failures.

Strike 2: Stickney failed to make good on his promise of “a nice, tidy press release later this afternoon”. He lies about the press supposedly ignoring him, he lies about his own press release, and of course he lies that the referendum is somehow about marriage. Nothing like starting off your campaign by making your few remaining supporters want to slink away too.

By: Raymond H. "Bud" Burgoon-Clark

Raymond H. "Bud" Burgoon-Clark — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:17:30 +0000

Take the time and trouble to write to the bigots. If enough people do, they will at least see that their effort is doomed, even if the letters don’t change their minds. And it will cost them some staff time to read their e-mails .

WASHINGTON VALUES ALLIANCE

http://www.valuesaction.org/index.php?option=com_alfcontact&Itemid=2

My effort:

Gentlepersons:

DIVORCE is destroying heterosexual marriage, NOT same-sex couples.

Your “mission statement” is a snare, a delusion, and a bald-faced LIE, not to mention a contradiction.

I am a Christian priest; I SUPPORT same-sex marriage. So do many other Christians.

Raymond, CR+
Superior, retired
The Community of the Resurrection
San Diego CA USA

By: Bud Burgoon-Clark

Bud Burgoon-Clark — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:57:11 +0000

I suppose it’s naive to wonder why they don’t just go away and leave us alone. I don’t interfere in the affairs of their churches … well, MUCH .

I HAVE been known to call Maledict the XVI a “flaming a$$hole on after-burner,” and I did get a chuckle over the mental image of Ted Haggard taking it doggy-style, but for the most part, I leave them alone.

Why can’t they do the same?

Even “Douche-Bag” Dobson admits the war is lost (with apologies to all upstanding douche-bags everywhere). He’s old; he’s tired; he’s going to his eternal reward SOON (please God!).

Poll after poll has indicated an ever-shrinking Rethugnantclone (sic) Party. UNLESS they dump the konservative kristianist krazies (KKK for short) they are headed for a permanent home in the swamps and bayous of the DEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
South.

This is ONE case where age and cunning will NOT overcome youth and enthusiasm.