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Tonight, the TV ad below featuring retired Washington state Sen. Cheryl Pflug (R) debuts during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics. I’m thinking this ad, paid for by the Pride Foundation, is a gentle and effective way to reach out to Washington’s conservative voters who are still working their way along the path to full support of marriage equality for all Washington families.
I know a number of lesbian and gay couples that have been together for 40 years.
I saw in these couples love, commitment, a sharing of a life together. Everything that makes for a good marriage.
Everybody wants to say “this is the person that I love” and stand up and have a ceremony with their family and friends.
As a Republican, I believe in freedom. And that includes the freedom to marry the person you love.
Back in February, Sen. Pflug and three Senate colleagues cast the Republican votes needed to pass Washington’s marriage equality bill on a bipartisan vote of 28 to 21. The House also passed the bill with bipartisan support and Gov. Gregoire signed it into law, but it’s enactment is on hold until a referendum vote is taken this November.
Referendum 74 will ask voters whether the marriage equality law should be approved or rejected. Marriage equality supporters must vote to Approve Referendum 74.
Support the Approve Referendum 74 campaign by signing up to volunteer with Washington United for Marriage, “liking” WUM’s Facebook page and following the news on Twitter (@WA4Marriage, #WA4M).
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Good for her! It’s a shame more Republicans don’t have the nerve to stand up and be decent human beings.
Just lately I’ve noticed a pretty significant upswing in conservative politicians and pundits pushing back against the teabag wing of the Republican Party. Now what we need is some who are actually still in office to push back against those nuts and bigots.
I should have been more clear about Sen Pflug that she didn’t wait until she retired to support LGBT civil equality. Here’s what I wrote about her back in January:
I REALLY liked the ad, but – I don’t need convincing. We’ll see how the campaign shakes out —
while it seems like ads such as this are winners, AND, it actually seems kind of 13th century-ish that we even have to debate this issue –
the lefties / democrats of Seattle are some of the most politically pathetic sacks of shit on the planet when it comes to defeating 13th century toads. they excel at strategy, tactics and messaging which resonate in their upper middle cla$$ echo chambers, and rarely make it much further.
like ALL things ‘Democratic’, until we pass the torch to a generation of grayson politicians, we’re gonna be stuck barely winning, or, getting our asses kicked.
rmm.
Sad, but very very true.
The other sad but true problem is that while Seattle is the largest metro area in the state, and so needing more time and attention, Seattle-ites tend to ignore, shun, or worse, patronize the rest of the state’s LGBTQetc communities. We’re all in this together, we’re all working for Marriage Equality for the entire state, not just King County.