Hear that silence? That’s Pastor Ken Hutcherson not speaking against the freedom-to-marry-affirming Referendum 74 because Preserve Marriage Washington burned its bridges with him and most of Washington’s anti-gay luminaries when they seized control of the issue from the locals back in February. As a result PMW, the local arm of the Washington, D.C.-based National Organization [...]

Test your skill at detecting anti-gay activists’ false claims! Preserve Marriage Washington, the group opposing Referendum 74, the ballot measure that would affirm Washington state’s new freedom to marry law, recently released this “Call to Pastors” video.  Give it a listen and see if you can spot the seven false claims, then check your results [...]

Preserve Marriage Washington, the group opposing Washington state’s new freedom to marry law, is struggling to maintain a civil facade. Many of PMW’s most outspoken supporters seem quite eager to drop the pretense and are displaying the campaign’s true face on various campaign-related Facebook pages. Here a PMW supporter shared his uncivil views all the [...]

Preserve Marriage Washington, the campaign opposing Washington state’s freedom to marry law, has attracted the attention of the state’s Public Disclosure Commission because its fundraising instructions to churches are “not in compliance with state law”, according to the Seattle Times: The fact that churches can call for or allow special collections on behalf of a [...]

Preserve Marriage Washington, the organization trying to repeal Washington’s new marriage equality law, recently urged supporters to download campaign flyers and hand them out to friends and neighbors. Although the PMW website has long displayed the slogans, talking points and essays provided by its parent organization National Organization for Marriage, the new flyers should indicate [...]

The news out of Washington state is that Washington United for Marriage, the campaign defending the state’s new marriage equality law by supporting approval of Referendum 74, has outpaced the anti-equality campaign Preserve Marriage Washington 13 to 1 in fundraising. Don’t believe it. Preserve Marriage Washington and their parent organization, National Organization for Marriage, have [...]

In an apparent fit of road rage, Preserve Marriage Washington Executive Board member and Washington state legislator Rep. Matt Shea (R-Spokane Valley) pulled a loaded gun on the driver of another car. Preserve Marriage Washington is the group trying to repeal Washington’s new marriage equality law via Referendum 74. This is the kind of people [...]

Rob McKenna’s moderate facade is slipping. Washington State’s Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate had the following to say about the referendum challenge to Washington’s new civil marriage equality law. Voters must APPROVE Referendum 74 in November to retain the marriage equality law. I don’t support changing the definition of marriage. For me, marriage is [...]

It’s easy to hit the mark perfectly when you’ve rigged the system to guarantee your desired outcome. Recall that Preserve Marriage Washington, one of National Organization for Marriage’s anti-gay campaigns, missed their real goal of delivering 200,000 Referendum 74 petition signatures on May 6th, one month before the legal deadline. If the measure qualifies for [...]

It’s been apparent from the outset that Referendum 74 will qualify for the November ballot. After all, very few referendum campaigns don’t collect the required 120,577 voter signatures since it is such a low percentage of the total registered voters in the state. Once on the ballot, R-74 will ask voters to approve or reject [...]