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Boeing says it will deny pension benefits to married same-sex couples
The Boeing Company this week told union negotiators that it intends to deny pension survivor benefits to married same-sex couples, even though Washington State voters approved a marriage equality law earlier this month, according to a report in The Stranger.
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Christian legal group: Gays can’t force Christian clerks to issue same-sex marriage licenses
A Christian legal group on Monday sent a memorandum to marriage officials in the three states where gay marriage was legalized in last week’s elections, advising them they “do not have to violate their faith or conscience by personally issuing licenses to applicants who are of the same sex.”
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Catholic Church spent $2 million fighting marriage equality this election cycle
The Roman Catholic Church hierarchy funneled $2 million into entirely unsuccessful efforts to advance discrimination against LGBT people in the four marriage ballot states of Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington this election cycle, according to a report by the Human Rights Campaign.
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Gay man chosen to lead Washington state Senate
OLYMPIA, Wash. — State Sen. Ed Murray (D-Seattle) will become just the second openly LGBT person to lead a state senate chamber after his Democratic colleagues on Tuesday night chose him as majority leader of the Washington State Senate.
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Washington state makes it a sweep as voters approve same-sex marriage law
In a sweep of election night victories for marriage equality, voters in Washington state approved Referendum 74, affirming the state’s same-sex marriage law, and granting gay and lesbian couples the freedom to marry.
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Marriage votes mark ‘watershed’ moment for LGBT equality
Even the most jaded political pundits were stunned by the four stunning victories for marriage equality on the ballot Tuesday.
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Will election results make it be a banner day for marriage equality?
While voters across America have never approved of same-sex marriage at the ballot box, final polls in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington show that marriage equality is poised to make history today.
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College under fire for allowing transgender female to use women’s locker room
OLYMPIA, Wash. — A liberal arts college in Washington state has received a warning letter from the Arizona-based religious liberties legal group, Alliance Defending Freedom, advising that the college’s decision to allow a transgender female student to use a woman’s locker room could put the school in legal jeopardy.
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Obama calls for support of state marriage equality ballot initiatives
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday reaffirmed his support for marriage equality, and called on Americans to support the freedom to marry when they vote on ballot measures in Maine, Maryland and Washington.
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Gates’ donate additional $500,000 to Washington marriage equality campaign
Microsoft Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates, and his wife Melinda, have donated an additional $500,000 to the campaign to uphold Washington’s state’s marriage equality law