[CLARIFICATION - This diary references TWO bills, not one. One deals with domestic partnership and a few rights, one would extend full rights of marriage to same-sex couples. Both introduced by the same people.]
It's a day too late to share the Martin Luther King connection, but still worthy of discussion. Today, Jamie Pederson and Ed Murray introduced two landmark pieces of legislation in the Washington state House and Senate that will move the discussion of marriage equality forward for years to come in Washington state.
[Before I go further, please register now to attend Equality Day in Olympia on February 26, to join clergy, people of faith and people like me to lobby legislators on behalf of this legislation and against discrimination! And please consider sharing your testimony on behalf of these bills...opposition will be hot, so your participation is so important!]
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