Legislators, especially State Sen. Bill Finkbeiner, consider yourself warned: if both chambers don't pass the gay anti-discrimination law in Olympia next session, Anne Levinson just might up and move to Canada, where social justice for sexual minorities isn't taken lightly. Levinson says that in return for getting gay anti-discrimination legislation soon, as a delayed Christmas gift, she'll even go so far as to put her gift wishes for an iPod on the back burner. But maybe an iPod is just what she needs.
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at December 21, 2005 12:06 PM | Email ThisAnne, don't let the door hit you in the ass. Take a few with you when you go!
Posted by: GS on December 21, 2005 12:28 PMLast year she went down to Olympia with a legislative wish list designed to bail out SMP. Looking at what the changes to its statutes SMP wanted last year is VERY revealing.
Anyway, she got her rear end handed to her by the legislature. Then she quit her job at SMP.
Posted by: oogie on December 21, 2005 12:40 PMI wonder how this guy feels about welcoming a lesbian into Canada?
Posted by: dan on December 21, 2005 12:47 PMWe need to remember these people's votes and find people to run against them.
House Bill 1515
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1515
Senate Bill 6019
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=6019&year=2005
Too many Republicans don't want to be shut out of the social aspects of the election season. It is easier to support the RINO incumbant then to be shunned by the local Republican Party.
On lots of these issues Republicans only have themselves to blame for voting for a RINO just because he is an incumbant.
Here is the vote on HB. 1515 in the Senate. Do you see your local RINO on the list of Yeas. Are you going to work for him anyway?
HB 1515
Senate vote on 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate
4/21/2005
Yeas: 24 Nays: 25 Absent: 0 Excused: 0
Voting Yea: Senators Berkey, Brown, Doumit, Eide, Fairley, Franklin, Fraser, Haugen, Jacobsen, Kastama, Keiser, Kline, Kohl-Welles, McAuliffe, Poulsen, Prentice, Pridemore, Rasmussen, Regala, Rockefeller, Shin, Spanel, Thibaudeau, and Weinstein.
Voting Nay: Senators Benson, Benton, Brandland, Carrell, Deccio, Delvin, Esser, Finkbeiner, Hargrove, Hewitt, Honeyford, Johnson, McCaslin, Morton, Mulliken, Oke, Parlette, Pflug, Roach, Schmidt, Schoesler, Sheldon, Stevens, Swecker, and Zarelli.
Absent:
Excused:
YOUR ARE RIGHT WE HAVE NO ONE TO BLAME BUT US!!
"FOOL ME ONCE SHAME OM YOU...FOOL ME TWICE SHAME ON ME"
Posted by: TACOMA PHLASH on December 21, 2005 01:09 PMMar 30 2005
Many think gay-rights law already exists
By ERICA HALL
The Mirror
On the heels of a recent poll that shows most Washington voters believe state law already prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, state senators are preparing to vote on a House bill designed to make popular belief a reality.
A bipartisan majority in the state House of Representatives voted 61-37 Feb. 11 to move the Anderson-Murray Anti-Discrimination Bill into the Senate.
Representatives from Federal Way and the 30th District –– Mark Miloscia, a Democrat, and Skip Priest, a Republican –– voted in favor of the bill.
The legislation was passed by the Senate Financial Institutions, Housing and Consumer Protection Committee last Thursday and has until April 15 to be approved by the full Senate or expire.
According to a group called Equal Rights Washington, Governor Christine Gregoire has indicated she will sign the bill if it makes it through the Legislature.
The Anderson-Murray bill would expand the jurisdiction of the state Human Rights Commission to allow it to investigate allegations of discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The commission currently receives and investigates complaints by those who feel they have been wronged under the state’s law against discrimination based on sex, race, creed, color, national origin, marital status, disability or the use of a trained guide dog or service animal.
The commission has the authority to hold hearings and subpoena witnesses and, if it finds discrimination has occurred, to try to remedy the offense through conference or conciliation. If that’s unsuccessful, the commission is required to refer the complaint to an administrative law judge to issue an order providing relief to the complainant.
The original bill, sponsored by Rep. Ed Murray, a Democrat from Seattle, was amended in the House to exclude religious or sectarian organizations.
George Cheung, co-chairman of Equal Rights Washington, said his organization hopes the the legislation passes “once and for all.”
According to a poll of 400 Washington voters conducted by Decision Research on behalf of Equal Rights Washington last month, 82 percent believe it’s already illegal in Washington to discriminate based on sexual orientation.
According to the research firm, legislators who don’t support an anti-discrimination statute are at risk of losing voter support in all regions except eastern Washington.
During last year’s election campaign, Miloscia and Priest were asked by the Mirror for their stands on same-sex marriage. Both said they support the state’s Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a legal union between one woman and one man.
Miloscia and Priest also claimed the state law is constitutional.
But Miloscia also said gay couples should have civil union or domestic partnership protections.
In August 2003, a King County Superior Court judge ruled the Defense of Marriage Act violates the equal protection clause of the state constitution. That ruling is under review by the state Supreme Court, which heard arguments on both sides of the issue during a hearing March 8 in Olympia. A decision is pending.
Enjoy Canada, Anne! I see you have plenty of transportation offers just in this blog alone.
Posted by: Burdabee on December 21, 2005 01:55 PMFor that matter...where in the Sermon on the Mount did Jesus talk about tax planning? Climate change? The Seattle Seahawks?
Posted by: South County on December 21, 2005 02:58 PMDid a momma-momma relationship fornicate and "make" you?
Posted by: Chris on December 21, 2005 03:05 PM
YOU GET SO MAD, WHY DONT YOU PUT OUT YOU THUMB, TAKE ANOTHER TOKE AND GO "STRIAGHT"...ER I MEAN... RIGHT TO CANADA WHERE YOU CAN CATCH THE ELTON JOHNS WEDDING & AFTER PARTY REPLAYED ON TV.
Posted by: TACOMA PHLASH on December 21, 2005 03:37 PMNo wonder gay people fear for their lives outside Seattle.
Posted by: Mike M. on December 21, 2005 08:16 PMWhat noted scientific organization certifies Al Gore's theory that the internal combustion engine causes global warming?
Posted by: Amused by liberals on December 23, 2005 07:18 PMSincerely . . . no.
No one here is seriously threatening to run anyone out [of] the State because of their sexual orientation and then take exception to being called homophobic.
Are you seriously saying that anyone is here threatening to run someone out the State because of their sexual orientation and then take exception to being called homophobic?
Who said it? . . . whoooo said it, damn it ?
You seem sure that homophobes would seriously threaten to run someone out the State because of their sexual orientation and then take exception to being called homophobic, and you claim that homophobic homophiles would seriously threaten to run someone out the State because of their sexual orientation, yet no one threatens to run anyone out the State because of their sexual orientation or their danged homophobia. You are full of crap and no one here is a homophobic homophile except you, so keep tryin pal.
Please answer, we're seriously concerned for your sake (not).
Here's who:
I'm sure she'll get many offers to pay for her bus ticket.
DON'T LET THE WASHINGTON DOOR HIT YOU ON THE ASS ON THE WAY OUT!!!
YOU GET SO MAD, WHY DONT YOU PUT OUT YOU THUMB, TAKE ANOTHER TOKE AND GO "STRIAGHT"...ER I MEAN... RIGHT TO CANADA WHERE YOU CAN CATCH THE ELTON JOHNS WEDDING & AFTER PARTY REPLAYED ON TV.
I wonder how this guy feels about welcoming a lesbian into Canada?
Promises promises.
Let's set up a fund to help with her moving expenses!
can we rely on her moving?
Has anyone started a fund to assist?
Any questions on the quotes from this thread?