“It ain’t over,” Pastor Jay Smith told his congregation at a recent Sunday morning service at the Cedar Park Church in Bothell. Smith, a smiling, sandy-haired 38-year-old, projected those words on two giant screens as he preached.
In 2012, Cedar Park Church contributed more than $20,000 to Preserve Marriage Washington, the failed anti-gay-marriage campaign. In 2016, the church is now the largest individual contributor to Just Want Privacy, the statewide effort to repeal human-rights protections for transgender adults and children. Just Want Privacy’s I-1515 also goes one step further than repealing existing protections: It would mandate that public school bathrooms are gender-segregated, and then allow schools to be sued for letting trans kids use the bathrooms in which they are most comfortable…
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