WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a Washington state case in which religious conservatives fear retaliation from gay rights groups if the names of the 138,000 people who signed ballot petitions to overturn a same-sex domestic partnership law are released. State officials say the Washington Public Disclosure Act, approved by voters nearly 40 years ago, requires the release of signatures on initiative and referenda petitions. Until now, no one had ever challenged their release.
The battle over a ballot measure that would expand domestic partnership rights for same-sex couples continues, Yahoo reports. Voters in Washington are set to consider changes to the state's domestic partnership law this November in legislation known as Referendum 71.
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Sponsors of a campaign to overturn Washington state's domestic partnership law turned in their petition signatures Saturday and said they believe they have enough to force a public vote. The expanded "everything but marriage" domestic partnership law was scheduled to take effect today, but is now delayed until the signatures can be counted, a process that could take up to a month.
ballot issues Voters in three states will weigh in this fall on issues regarding homosexuality. In Maine, voters will decide whether or not to uphold the state's legalization of same-sex marriage. In Washington state, a law that expands the state's current domestic partnership law will be on the ballot. And in Kalamazoo, Mich., voters will decide on an ordinance that prohibits discrimination against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals. FISHERS, Ind. - Conservative members of the nation's largest Lutheran denomination voted Saturday to spend 12 months deciding whether to split from the church after it liberalized its stance on gay clergy.
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court justices from the left and the right expressed skepticism Wednesday at a conservative religious group's argument that Washington state should keep secret the names of 138,500 people who signed petitions in favor of letting voters decide whether to overturn the state's same-sex domestic partnership law. James Bopp Jr., a lawyer for Protect Marriage Washington, argued that those who signed the petition to put Referendum 71 on the ballot would face harassment and intimidation from gay rights groups if their names were made public. Bopp argued that the signers' rights to privacy trumped the state's public records law.
yakima herald-republic A workshop on Washington state's new domestic partnership law will take place in Yakima on Saturday afternoon.
Voters in Washington will consider an expansion of the state's domestic partnership law that would include additional benefits for same-sex couples, Yahoo reports. Currently, the state allows unmarried heterosexual couples and same-sex couples to register as domestic partners and receive certain benefits, such as the ability to visit a partner in the hospital and inheritance rights.
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Anti-gay partnership laws prevent state and local governments from granting rights, benefits, and obligations associated with marriage to same-sex couples. Fifteen states have anti-gay partnership laws that prohibit the creation of civil unions, domestic partnerships, or specific partnership rights for gay couples. Although enacted under legitimate state authority, these laws come into conflict with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United State Constitution because they isolate gay citizens for special disadvantages and burdens within the traditional political processes. Under equal protection analysis, a law that neither burdens a fundamental right nor targets a protected class will be presumed valid if it bears a rational relation to a legitimate governme...
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