Ultimately, the key to get it out of the Senate is for folks to lobby the hell out of their legislators, including thanking them for their past support for the gays.

This means calling and emailing folks like Andy Hill, Joe Fain, Cheryl Pflug and Steve Litzow on the GOP side (they were solid votes last session), and keeping the pressure for full equality.

It also means reminding folks like Jim Kastama that, if he wants any significant support in his bid for Secretary of State against Zack Hudgins, then just a couple of good votes won't work. He's going to have to be one of the folks who supported DOMA in the 90's, and equality in 2012.

I agree with Sen. Murray that it will be difficult, but if you have friends that live on the Eastside, or down in Puyallup, or up on Camano and Whidbey, then you should be talking with them, and having them email and call their state Senators, and urge support for equality in 2012.

Didn't a grocery store union preemptively declare support for marriage equality last month?

@1: That's a very cool observation but after my immediate reaction of shock came the: so what?

It scares me when I confuse right and wrong with them and us; it's awful easy to fall into. Especially after listening to a republican presidential debate.

@ 1, in what way?

@7 You are correct, but the AIDS crisis kinda blasted that thinking out of the water during the 1980's when the community was put face to face with our own immorality.

I met mortality !!!! YIKES!!!!!!!

@ 7, I kinda thought it might be something like that. I always thought that more LGBT acceptance would mean more "regular folks" coming out, and they would be quite ordinary aside from their orientation.

@5: Uhm... it was YES on 71 to preserve the domestic partnership law.

@1 There have always been conservative gay people. They just tended to lie to everyone around them and say they were straight in the past. Most of the openly gay people were liberals in the past for obviously reasons.