{"id":12431,"date":"2009-10-05T09:32:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T16:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/10\/05\/12431.html"},"modified":"2009-10-05T09:32:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T16:32:49","slug":"washingtonians-spread-word-abo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/10\/05\/washingtonians-spread-word-abo\/","title":{"rendered":"Washingtonians: spread word about domestic partnerships!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I hear that a lot of people in Washington state don't know about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Referendum_71_(2009)\">Referendum 71<\/a>, which will be on the ballot there next month.<\/p>\n<p>This is the referendum over Washington's new marriage-in-all-but-name domestic partnerships. Washington passed a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Domestic_partnership_in_Washington\">bill<\/a> to make domestic partnerships the legal equivalent of marriage in May of this year, but it hasn't gone into effect yet; and if R-71 fails, domestic partnerships there will remain watered down.<\/p>\n<p>The latest polling has R-71 at a 51% \"Approved\" vote, which is an awfully close margin to rely on. (The Approved side is the pro-domestic-partnership and pro-same-sex-couples side.)<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, same-sex couples can't get married. But with this new DP status, they would have all the legal rights and responsibilities of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>So if you live in Washington state, I urge you to do two things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Go to the polls next month and vote Approved on Referendum 71, to confirm strong domestic partnerships.<\/li>\n  <li>Talk with your friends and neighbors about it. Make sure people know that R-71 is on the ballot; make sure they know it's important to pass it; and make sure they know that an Approved vote confirms strong domestic partnerships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more info, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/approvereferendum71.org\/\">Washington Families Standing Together<\/a> website. For example, they have a page with more suggestions on how to help <a href=\"http:\/\/approvereferendum71.org\/spread-the-word\">spread the word<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear that a lot of people in Washington state don&#8217;t know about Referendum 71, which will be on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-samesex-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}