Threats, Legal Action in Washington’s Marriage Equality Debate
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Newsweek: This November, residents of Washington state will go to the polls to decide the fate of same-sex domestic partnerships, voting on Referendum 71 (R-71). Nicknamed the "everything but marriage" proposition, R-71 proposes an expansion of a current domestic-partnership law to include adoption rights, child support, pension, and other public-employee benefits for same-sex couples. Although gay partners would have all the rights afforded married couples, the state will refrain from using the term “marriage.” But right now, voters are less worried about what's actually on the ballot than how it got there in the first place. In Washington, as in most states, supporters must collect a threshold number of signatures for a ballot initiative to go to the polls. In the case of R-71, those who signed were asked to include their name, occupation, and address. Now, a political group wants to publish the names of the 121,000 residents who signed on the Internet.
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