National Organization for Marriage is going to have their hands full trying to control all the back-biting factions within Washington’s anti-gay industry. Did they know what they were in for when they decided to spend upwards of $6 million to interfere in the affairs of a state 2,500 miles distant from their offices in Washington, [...]

To help crime victims stay safe, the office of Secretary of State in Washington administers a very sensible program called Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) The ACP is designed to prevent offenders from using the state’s public records to locate their victims and cause further harm. The ACP is available to survivors of domestic violence, sexual [...]

Can an inactive PAC advocate against a candidate on the website of a 501(c)3 organization? Today anti-gay activist Gary Randall posted the text below on his blog. The blog is a project of Faith and Freedom Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit. 501(c)3s are not allowed to advocate for or against particular candidates. It sure looks to [...]

Oregon Pastor Gary Randall is up in arms about New York City’s new sex ed curriculum. “We want to help kids to delay the onset of sexual activity, and if they choose to engage in sexual activity, to do it in a healthy way,” says NYC’s Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs. Uh oh, she used the [...]

Talk about closing the barn door after the horse is bolted and you’ve torched the barn. Protect Marriage Washington filed an emergency motion with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday, asking the court to stay the October 17th order issued by Federal District Judge Benjamin Settle that as per the state’s Public Records [...]

Over two years of litigation stemming from the 2009 Referendum 71 campaign to repeal Washington’s domestic partnership law came to an end Monday, and the good guys have won. Federal District Judge Benjamin Settle, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled in the case Doe v. Reed that Protect Marriage Washington (PMW), an affiliate of the [...]

Sen. Dan Swecker (left) posing with Gary Randall just days before the betrayal. Ouch!  Gary Randall has been betrayed by yet another of his anti-gay “friends”, and it’s clearly shaken him to the core.  Randall is president and executive director of the anti-gay Faith & Freedom Network.  Randall’s high level of distress is evident in [...]

Sen. Dan Swecker You never know what incredible bits of truthiness you might hear from anti-gay activists at a legislative hearing.  On March 15th the Washington state Senate Committee on Government Operations and Tribal Relations & Elections heard public testimony on the bill updating the Uniform Parentage Act of 2002 (HB 1267) by “clarifying and [...]

When you have no valid argument against a bill, I guess you resort to hyperbole and hope nobody will notice the anti-gay animus motivating you.  Washington state Senator Dan Swecker opposes HB 1267, a bill that would update the Uniform Parentage Act of 2002 by “clarifying and expanding the rights and obligations of state registered [...]

Always genteel, Washington State’s Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna likes to portray himself as a moderate.  Being relatively new to Washington, I only started to think about Mr. McKenna’s political positioning recently as LGBT friends & allies started mentioning that they had spotted him at this or that event.  Delighted at the prospect of a [...]