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It’s official. Should the expected referendum ensure, hopefully this time the “put fundamental rights up for a plebiscite” strategy will fail as well.
Meanwhile, in the competition for the very dumbest SSM opponent in Washington, I think I have to vote for Hargrove.
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Won’t the existing district and appeals court decisions stay any referendum? Isn’t WA in the 9th district?
I’m no constitutional lawyer, but as long as nobody has actually been issued a marriage license, the 9th Circuit’s decision doesn’t apply. And they wrote the bill in such a way to allow for the collection of signatures to overturn it before it comes into effect.
It wasn’t that they wrote the bill to allow for that, it’s part of WA law already. Same thing happened in 09 with the domestic partnership law.
Won’t the existing district and appeals court decisions stay any referendum?
This commenter understands and knows that homo-marriage has failed every time the people have had an actual voice. He’s already anticipating the probable.
The voice is the people! No wait, the voice is the judges! Dammit, isn’t there any dominant group of bigots left?
Meanwhile, in the competition for the very dumbest SSM opponent in Washington, I think I have to vote for Hargrove.
That’s a tough competition. I’m not sure which is worse, Hargrove’s sincere belief that “a Super Bowl ad told me all I need to know about same-sex marriage” was an argument worth repeating aloud or the passion displayed by Shea in his “Ahh, but the tulips, that’s… that’s where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with… geometric logic… that those goddamn tulips don’t belong at lesbian weddings!”
I’m leaning toward Shea, but… wow.
Ensue
I had to vote for Shea. “My family suffered from shameful discrimination in the old country, and that’s why we have to protect people’s right to discriminate” is sheer genius.
I hope it passes. Then all those top, conservative legislators can finally marry their bottom aides.