One month ago today the Bellevue, Washington chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) gathered in Seattle’s Volunteer Park to create two videos. The idea behind the videos is simple but powerful: behind every lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) person is a group of family and friends who love and [...]

Check out this peep diorama depicting Washington’s Gov. Gregoire signing the marriage equality bill into law, courtesy of Washington United for Marriage‘s Facebook page. (If you haven’t yet, LIKE that page!) Happy Peep Day everyone!

As efforts to protect Washington’s new marriage equality law continue, it is beautiful to see the increasing amount of support that Washington United for Marriage has gotten from faith communities across Washington state. Their support helps people realize that civil marriage equality is completely consistent with religious liberty. In the tradition of seeking to do [...]

The Oregon-based Faith and Freedom group of organizations — Faith and Freedom Network, Faith and Freedom Foundation, and Faith and Freedom PAC — has been playing a visible role in the campaign led by National Organization for Marriage’s local arm, Preserve Marriage Washington, attempting to overturn Washington’s civil marriage equality law. Earlier this year, Faith [...]

Gary Randall is a retired Oregon televangelist who writes incessantly about “homosexuals” and the “perversion” of homosexuality on his blog. His apparent goal in doing so is to undermine the actualization of civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Washingtonians. In this he isn’t much different from others on the radical-right. What sets him [...]

Preserve Marriage Washington (PMW) has been silent about National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) disturbing strategy documents which have recently come to light. The documents outline NOM’s cynical plans to undermine marriage equality using racially and socially divisive tactics. PMW is the group trying to roll back Washington’s new marriage equality law via Referendum 74. Undoubtedly [...]

Ever notice how uniform the websites of “local” anti-marriage equality organizations are? Below are screen shots from currently-active anti-marriage equality organizations from the far-flung states of North Carolina, Minnesota and Washington. Here are just a few of the elements that these websites have in common: A stock photo depicting a white heterosexual couple with a [...]

They blew it. National Organization for Marriage (NOM) really doesn’t know how to discern a winnable fight. A week after the inception of its planned international “Dump Starbucks” campaign and several urgently-worded action e-mails from NOM and allies later, all they have to show is about 21,000 signatures. In other words, almost nobody would sacrifice [...]

As if in answer to my observation that it’s almost as if Washington’s Bishops own Preserve Marriage Washington, Washington State Catholic Conference (WSCC), which represents the Catholic Bishops of the State of Washington on issues of public policy, has posted the following comment on their “Preserve Marriage Washington” (PMW) web page. PMW is the campaign [...]

Dr. Ken Hutcherson apparently thinks that horses can consent to marriage. Hutcherson is a Seattle-area pastor and official spokesperson for the Initiative 1192 campaign to reinstate a ban on civil marriage for same-sex couples in Washington state. In a recent blog post, Hutcherson opined (emphasis added): With petitions circulating for an initiative and a referendum [...]