Straight seniors say: Approve Referendum 71 to preserve our domestic partnerships

By: Laurel Ramseyer Friday October 2, 2009 7:20 pm

KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio produced an excellent piece featuring the straight senior-citizen couple Steve Doty & Linda Dunbar.  Steve & Linda tell us why they got a domestic partnership, and why it is so important to them that Washington votes “approved” on Referendum 71.  Click here to stream the audio.  The transcript is below. [...]

Anti-equality activists ask elderly and childless couples "why are you getting a marriage license?"

By: Laurel Ramseyer Friday September 18, 2009 4:00 pm

It’s not just in Washington state that senior heterosexual couples are under attack by anti-equality activists.  Iowa too.  About 500 senior couples in Washington have domestic partnerships, and will lose vital legal protections for their families if Referendum 71 isn’t approved on Nov. 3rd. At a September 16 debate on the merits of marriage equality [...]

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