Marriage Equality Now Seattle

United for a Healthy Washington, a group started by the Hate to Hope Coalition, is urging people in Washington State to decline to sign intiative I-946. The initiative, if put in the ballot and approved, would make it illegal to provide basic human and health services to people that cannot show proof of legal immigration […]

Some good news from Georgia and Oklahoma… From an AP article, via Feministe: In Georgia, a Superior Court Judge struck down the state’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage based mostly on a technicality (the ballot included multiple subjects instead of just one as is allowed). While this is good news, it won’t really do much […]

From Reuters, via the Washington Post: Arlen Specter and other Republicans in the Senate judiciary committee agreed to bring the federal marriage amendment up for a vote in the Senate. Specter said he doesn’t support it but thinks it should be voted on anyway. The interesting thing is that Sen. Russ Feingold, who has already […]

Today’s PI local section has an article about the WA State Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the so-called Defense Of Marriage Act. Nothing new or that wasn’t known already, but they mention how the anti-gay people are expecting a decision supporting same-sex marriage, and the speculations that the court may be waiting till […]

After it failed to pass in 2004, Rick Santorum has asked for a new vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the anti-gay Federal Marriage Amendment, that would write discrimination into the US Constitution by explicitly prohibiting same-sex marriage.
Even though most or all Democratic Senators are expected to vote against the FMA if it ever […]

From the Washington Post:

On Thursday, the state Supreme Judicial Court — the same court that legalized gay marriage in its landmark 2003 ruling — was set to take up a challenge about whether the ballot question can go forward.

It’s interesting to see that even when the marriage equality issue may appear settled, we still […]

Marriage Equality Now members will be participating in today’s May Day march for immigrant rights in Seattle. We will also be passing out bilingual flyers in support of marriage equality. If you’d like to make your own copies to distribute, or just see how the flyer looks like, you can get the PDF here.
Hope to […]

Welcome to the new website for Marriage Equality Now! With this website we hope to keep you up-to-date on the group’s happenings, as well as general marriage equality information. You can subscribe to the latest news via RSS feeds (what’s this?), and to our event calendar via the Ical link on the left-hand side (you […]