The audacity is astonishing. Larry Stickney wants to be elected chair of the Snohomish County (WA) Republican Party. Larry Stickney has a long record of running the political campaigns he works on into the ground, most recently that of arch-anti-gay Republican Congressional candidate John Koster. With Stickney as his campaign manager, Koster lost to pro-equality [...]

National Organization for Marriage, which is dedicated to depriving same-sex couples of the freedom to marry in the United States, experienced a sharp decline in contributions between 2010 and 2011. Donations fell from $9.1 million down to $6.2 million, according to public IRS documents. Likewise Preserve Marriage Washington, the NOM-backed group in Washington that opposed [...]

Here’s what you already know: On Nov. 6, Washington voters affirmed the state’s bipartisan freedom to marry law by voting 53.35% to 46.65% to approve Referendum 74. And with over 78% voter turnout, the electorate has spoken decisively on this matter. Here’s what you may not know: “Approve” voters in counties rejecting the measure overall [...]

Now that voters have approved Referendum 74 by a vote of 53.3% to 46.7%, same-sex couples can begin registering for marriage licenses in Washington state on December 6th and start marrying December 9th. Yay! The 9,904 couples already in a Washington State Registered Domestic Partnership have several options. If at least one person in the [...]

It’s been no secret that Preserve Marriage Washington was one of National Organization for Marriage’s astroturf campaigns. NOM supplied most of PMW’s staff: PMW’s Campaign Manager Frank Schubert is NOM’s National Political Director; PMW’s Deputy Campaign Manager Chris Plante is Executive Director of NOM Rhode Island; and PMW’s Communications Director Chip White was press secretary [...]

Nearly 400 people of faith representing more than a dozen congregations gathered today in Seattle to march in the Faith Ballot Drop Walk. The event culminated in the delivery of completed ballots — all marked “Approved” on Referendum 74 to affirm Washington’s freedom-to-marry law — to the ballot drop box at the King County Administration [...]

Three generations of Merle & Barbara Smith-Mosel’s family gather in the family home in Federal Way to talk about how much they want Rachel and her partner Sandy to be able to marry. Today Washington United for Marriage, the broad coalition working to defend the state’s bipartisan marriage law and approve Referendum 74, released this [...]

Here’s an excellent new Approve Referendum 74 ad from Washington United for Marriage featuring Jeff DeGroot, a third-year law student at the University of Washington, talking about why marriage matters to him as well as to his two moms. Count them: TWO hockey moms! That’s one lucky kid. To keep Washington’s new freedom-to-marry law on [...]

Have your friends in Washington state voted yet? Want to find out who might need a friendly reminder to mark “Approved” on Referendum 74 and return their ballot? There’s an ap for that! Get it on the Marriage Hero dashboard. The ap cross-references the state’s “hasn’t voted yet” list with your Facebook friends list. This [...]

Preserve Marriage Washington, the group opposing approval of Referendum 74 and Washington’s freedom to marry law, has for the first time responded to reports of their apparent purchase of fake Facebook “likes”, saying: RE: “PMW Facebook Scam” PMW maintains its own Facebook page. We have told our vendors explicitly, ‘Do not buy likes.’ We are [...]