Slog Feb 13, 2012 12:18 PM

Gregoire: "This is signed!"

by Eli Sanders

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To speak facebook for a moment: Like. So much Like.
Fancy's_Pants on February 13, 2012 at 12:23 PM · Report this
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Clap clap clap!
Puty on February 13, 2012 at 12:23 PM · Report this
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hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
alithea on February 13, 2012 at 12:24 PM · Report this
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<3
very bad homo on February 13, 2012 at 12:26 PM · Report this
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Well done Chris!!!!
Sachi on February 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM · Report this
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Let us all enjoy and relish this great news! Congratulations to all who worked hard in this state including HRC and especially ERW, Legal Marriage Alliance, PFLAG, and past organizations like Marriage Equality Now among others.

CommonKnowledge on February 13, 2012 at 12:31 PM · Report this
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Like button!
Fnarf on February 13, 2012 at 12:31 PM · Report this
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*tears* and *hearts* and *various smiling emoticons*
Geni on February 13, 2012 at 12:33 PM · Report this
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Cheering and wiping away a tear of joy. Best I've seen out of Olympia in a long time. Way to go guys.
SeattleKim on February 13, 2012 at 12:39 PM · Report this
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Fuck yeah!
OuterCow on February 13, 2012 at 12:40 PM · Report this
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Just.
Rhett Oracle on February 13, 2012 at 12:40 PM · Report this
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So can we get married now? srsly?
jnonymous on February 13, 2012 at 12:42 PM · Report this
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Grats!
Will in Seattle on February 13, 2012 at 12:42 PM · Report this
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They could have picked a more fabulous carpet to do it on...
TheMisanthrope on February 13, 2012 at 12:44 PM · Report this
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Huzzah!!!
Vince on February 13, 2012 at 12:49 PM · Report this
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Congratulations! :D
JensR on February 13, 2012 at 12:51 PM · Report this
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Many thanks again to my Republican Rep. Joe Fain, for voting for this. You rock.
MyDogBen on February 13, 2012 at 12:54 PM · Report this
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Awesome sauce.
michaelp on February 13, 2012 at 12:55 PM · Report this
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I don't know what you guys are so happy about. Ever since we legalized gay marriage in MA, it's been just awful here. Earthquakes, floods, the sky splits open, rains of blood, giant scorpions that feed on traditional marriages...
BostonFontSnob on February 13, 2012 at 1:00 PM · Report this
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It ain't over, folks. We gotta win in November, at the ballot box (if they gather the signatures, which they're likely to), and then we have to get the votes in Congress to repeal DOMA and make sure we have a president who would sign a DOMA repeal into law.

Lots of work left to do.
Dan Savage on February 13, 2012 at 1:07 PM · Stranger Staff
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Not pictured but present in spirit: Satan

and Jack from Jack in the Box

and Lenin
Zebes on February 13, 2012 at 1:08 PM · Report this
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That is the cheeriest looking executive signature viewing I've seen... WOW! Or should I say, FABULOUS!!!!!!!
scratchmaster joe on February 13, 2012 at 1:16 PM · Report this
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BEST NEWS OF THE DECADE!!!!!
Cato the Younger Younger on February 13, 2012 at 1:16 PM · Report this
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Yay!!
kim in portland on February 13, 2012 at 1:19 PM · Report this
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I'll look forward to reading the new Social Register feature of the The Stranger.
Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on February 13, 2012 at 1:20 PM · Report this
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Yay, so gay people have more rights but the true minorities are being ignored.
KittenKoder on February 13, 2012 at 1:21 PM · Report this
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Yeah, there'll always be more to do, though. Have to enjoy each hard-fought step, eh?
gloomy gus on February 13, 2012 at 1:22 PM · Report this
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P.S. @26, here I was so happy thinking you were dead. Can't you pretend a bit longer? Thx.
gloomy gus on February 13, 2012 at 1:23 PM · Report this
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So SSM is on hold till the haters get the sigs they need to overturn this? Is that how they're playing this?
Jersey on February 13, 2012 at 1:27 PM · Report this
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@29 Well it is on hold until June regardless as the State Constitution requires a 90 days wait from the end of the session. If they get enough signatures then it would be on hold until after the vote.
giffy on February 13, 2012 at 1:38 PM · Report this
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@28 - Maybe she finally got that surgery she needed.
MacCrocodile on February 13, 2012 at 1:50 PM · Report this
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It's technically the law, it's just not enacted yet so it doesn't have the force of law. And even if a referendum is filed it's still a suspension pending verification. It otherwise assumes an enactment date with all the other bills on the 7th of June.

The law is blind to challenges. That's why its effective date is the same as all other bills until the referendum petition drive is done.

Anyway, that's that. Until June 6th this is till going to happen. If they get a referendum through that changes, but we'll fight and win.

Always remember that the anti-gay activists got to the ballot and lost at the ballot on a message of "R-71 is marriage" and here we are, 3 years later. We did all the heavy lifting now we just need to stay on message, tell our stories and have internet shouting matches until either the 7th of June or the 7th of December.

Then we'll all get gay-married.
Baconcat on February 13, 2012 at 2:01 PM · Report this
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@26 - Not really you idiot. Go back to whatever hole you crawled out of.
Donolectic on February 13, 2012 at 2:03 PM · Report this
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It will be nice when this is no longer a big deal. Congrats to Washington!
Patricia Kayden on February 13, 2012 at 2:27 PM · Report this
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Showers the joyous throng surrounding the Governor with bigot-free flower-petals.
Helenka (also a Canuck) on February 13, 2012 at 3:47 PM · Report this
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Any other hopeless romantics out there who also wish she would have signed it tomorrow? I mean... one more day, and it's all hearts and chocolate.

Still this is a wonderful wonderful day. What a great thing. :)
ScienceNerd on February 13, 2012 at 3:56 PM · Report this
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@26: "Yay, so gay people have more rights but the true minorities are being ignored."

Ah, Tea Party/Libertarians on welfare, the true victims.
undead ayn rand on February 13, 2012 at 4:17 PM · Report this
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I mean seriously, your "wah wah suck up everything the Right-wing gives you, because I'm poor and have it worse and besides liberals are bad anyway" comes off as zero empathy for others while taking smug, nasty glee in seeing them suffer.

Even if you've had a hard life, you'd still make others suffer and crow about your own hardships. You may have some sort of mental illness way beyond depression, but does resigning others to the same fate really make you feel better?
undead ayn rand on February 13, 2012 at 4:28 PM · Report this
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Kitten Koder, several people here have ascribed thoughts to you, but I'm pretty unclear on what you're talking about. What 'real' minorities are being ignored, and how?
clashfan on February 13, 2012 at 7:32 PM · Report this
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Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Canadian Nurse on February 13, 2012 at 8:06 PM · Report this
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@39: She's an asexual, so perhaps she gets all sorts of butthurt because people don't fight for her right to... not have sex with anyone?
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