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Microsoft execs donate $100,000 each to support same-sex marriage law
SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer and co-founder Bill Gates have each donated $100,000 to the campaign supporting Washington state’s recently passed law legalizing same-sex marriage, reported the Associated Press on Monday.
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Washington State: Poll shows majority support for same-sex marriage
SEATTLE, Wash. — A new statewide survey by Public Policy Polling finds that, for the first time in its Washington polling, a majority of the state’s voters support marriage equality for same-sex couples.
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Marriage equality opponents qualify for ballot referendum in Washington
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state will be one of three states to put marriage equality to a popular vote this November.
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Election officials find 1,000 phony signatures on anti-gay marriage petitions
Election officials in Washington state said late last week they had identified approximately 1,000 fraudulent signatures submitted on petitions seeking a ballot referendum to overturn the state’s new marriage equality law.
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Washington same-sex marriage law blocked as opponents quality for ballot referendum
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Opponents of Washington’s newly passed same-sex marriage law on Wednesday submitted an estimated 232,000 signatures to the Secretary of State — all but guaranteeing that the question of whether gays and lesbians can marry in Washington will now be decided by that state’s voters. Preserve Marriage Washington, the petition campaign’s sponsors, planned […]
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Bishops want churchgoers to circulate anti-gay marriage petitions
SEATTLE — The two bishops of the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle said they will call on parishioners to collect signatures in support of Referendum 74, a ballot measure aimed at overturning the recently passed marriage equality law in Washington state.
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Seattle gay man’s email campaign hopes to discourage support for marriage ban
A Seattle gay man has embarked on a personal letter writing campaign, contacting Washington residents who backed a failed 2009 measure that sought to overturn the state’s “everything but marriage” civil unions law, in hopes that his story might discourage them from supporting this year’s effort to overturn the recently passed marriage equality law.
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HRC calls NOM’s Starbucks boycott their typical ‘temper-tantrum’
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign on Wednesday fired back at the National Organization for Marriage, calling their “Dump Starbucks” campaign a typical “temper tantrum,” and called on consumers to support Starbucks for its decision to support same-sex marriage.
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Anti-gay marriage vote looms in N.C., and a close call in Washington state
It’s coming down the wire in North Carolina, where an anti-gay ballot measure is looking an awful lot like the Prop 8 fight all over again. Meanwhile Denver Republicans vote to support civil unions, we’ll get a vote this week on ending marriage equality in New Hampshire, and President Obama speaks out against an anti-gay ballot measure.
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Washington gay marriage opponents launch drive to overturn law
Opponents of same-sex marriage began collecting signatures in Washington state on Wednesday in hopes of blocking the state’s new marriage equality law before it can go into effect this summer, just one day after a Superior Court judge cleared the way for opponents to begin the petition drive.