{"id":13940,"date":"2012-01-04T20:24:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T04:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/01\/04\/13940.html"},"modified":"2012-01-04T20:24:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T04:24:30","slug":"next-up-for-marriage-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/01\/04\/next-up-for-marriage-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Next up for marriage equality?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was pleased to see that Washington state governor Chris Gregoire has declared herself to be <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/nationnow\/2012\/01\/washington-gov-chris-gregoire-to-champion-same-sex-marriage.html\">in favor of marriage equality<\/a>. She's going to introduce a marriage equality bill in the legislative session that's about to begin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2017162075_gaymarriage05m.html\">Democrats have a majority<\/a> in both houses of the state legislature, but some conservative Democrats are opposed to marriage equality; apparently equality is still a few votes short in the state Senate. But &ldquo;State Sen. Ed Murray and Rep. Jamie Pedersen, both Seattle Democrats and leaders in the push to legalize same-sex marriage, said they're optimistic the measure will be approved.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have recommendations of a good Washington organization that out-of-staters can donate to to help this effort? A quick Google turned up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalrightswashington.org\/issues\/marriage.html\">Equal Rights Washington<\/a>, but I don't know anything about them.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/budget-cuts-same-sex-marriage-on-tap-for-2012-session\/2012\/01\/03\/gIQAqe2PaP_story.html\">Maryland is up for another try at marriage equality<\/a>. An attempt to pass an equality bill last year failed, but this year Maryland governor Martin O'Malley has stepped forward in favor of equality. (That linked-to article discusses equality in the last five paragraphs.) I'm not sure what the numbers are here, but I gather there's a decent chance it could pass.<\/p>\n<p>I've been donating to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalitymaryland.org\/\">Equality Maryland<\/a> to support that cause.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was pleased to see that Washington state governor Chris Gregoire has declared herself to be in favor of marriage equality&#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-13940","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\/13940","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=13940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}