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History of the Homosexual Agenda in Washington State

Christmas Eve, 1984 -- Governor Booth Gardner signs Executive Order 85-09 giving special protection to homosexuals within Washington State employment.

 

1986 - An attempt was made to overturn Order 85-09. For lack of signatures, Initiative 490 failed to make it to the ballot.

 

1993 - Before he died of AIDS, Representative Cal Anderson introduced House Bill 1443 to expand the Human Rights Commission giving homosexuals special protection from discrimination by all employers.  It passed in the House, but died in the Senate.

 

1998 - House Bill 1130, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was passed by the Legislature into law.

 

2004 - Homosexual activists sued the state to overturn DOMA.  After two years of court battles, the Washington State Supreme Court upheld our right to ban homosexual marriage.

 

2006 - House Bill 2661 added "sexual orientation" to the language of state law banning discrimination in housing, employment, and finance.  It was passed by the Legislature.

 

2006 - Referendum 65 was an effort to repeal HB 2661, but it failed to get enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.

 

2007 - The Legislature created a domestic partnership registry for same-sex couples and for couples where one person was at least 62 years of age (SB 5336).  Benefits include health care facility visitation rights, ability to grant informed consent for health care when a patient is not competent, title and rights to cemetery plots, benefits for the same-sex partner of a public employee.

 

2008 - The Legislature enacted 2SHB 3104 which expanded the rights and responsibilities of domestic partners to include dissolutions, community property, estate planning, taxes, court process, service to indigent veterans and other public assistance, conflicts of interest for public officials, and guardianships.

 

2009 -  Senate Bill 5688 was passed by the Legislature and signed into law, making domestic partnerships equal to traditional marriages in every aspect of Washington law.  The terms "spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family" will be applied equally to domestic partnerships as well as traditional marriages.  Gender specific terms such as "husband" and "wife" will be construed to be gender neutral.

  

2009 - Senate Bill 5292 was passed by the Legislature and signed into law, expanding the definition of "sexual orientation" under Washington Criminal Code to include "gender expression or identity."  "Sexual orientation" is defined as heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality.  "Gender expression or identity" means having or being perceived as having a gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior, or expression, whether or not that gender identity, self image, appearance, behavior, or expression is different from that traditionally associated with the sex assigned to that person at birth.  This definition has already been adopted by Washington's Labor Regulations Act.

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Mission

The mission of the new PAC is to organize the effort to gather the 120,577 required signatures for Referendum 71 by July 25, 2009 to bring the controversial Senate Bill 5688 before the voters of Washington State in November. SB 5688 is a 110 page document which includes the phrase "marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships" 180 times.

 

SB 5688 was packaged and presented to the legislature as a Domestic Partnerships expansion of benefits. In truth, it will demolish the state's historical understanding and definition of marriage as that of uniting a man and a woman for life as Washington State will immediately become subject to litigation by same-sex partners demanding that the courts overturn the Defense of Marriage Act and impose "same-sex marriage" (as happened recently in California prior to Proposition 8).