Considering the nasty tone this thread has taken, I believe I am going to absent myself and turn my time and efforts to accomplishing something in the real world.

In both Connecticut and Rhode Island, gay marriage bills are passing in their state legislatures, and in Washington State, Senate Bill 5688 has just been passed by both the House and the Senate, and the Governor has already said that she will sign it. The only thing that is holding it up is a small coterie of eastern Washington Republicans who are attempting some obstructive hanky-panky along the lines of California's Proposition 8. However, the proponents of SB 5688 anticipated this and are taking steps.

My representative in the state legislature is a friend and neighbor whom I knew long before he ran for public office. I will start with him and ask him what I can do as a citizen to see to it that this bill goes into law.

I will look into this thread from time to time to see if anything has changed, but I seriously doubt that will happen.

In the meantime, Guest (strayed one helluva long way) from Sanity, you might read THIS for you enlightenment and edification. (Fat chance!! Talk about "parroting". . . .).

Don Firth

P. S.   Hey! Amos! DonT! Others! We're wasting our time here. Let's get to work in the real world!