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Elaine Thompson / AP
Members of the gallery look down and applaud as the Washington state Senate passes a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage Wednesday evening.
Elaine Thompson / AP
Gov. Chris Gregoire motions Sen. Ed Murray over to embrace him after the Washington state Senate voted for a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage Wednesday evening.
Elaine Thompson / AP
Rep. Laurie Jinkins, right, D-Tacoma, waves with constituent Marcy Kulland from one Senate gallery across to the other Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, in Olympia, Wash.
The Washington state Senate has passed a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage, a step seen by proponents as a critical hurdle for legislative approval, even as the threat of a ballot challenge looms.
The measure was passed on a 28-21 vote. Four Republicans crossed party lines and voted with majority Democrats for the measure. Three Democrats voted against it. The measure now heads to the House, which is expected to approve it. Gov. Chris Gregoire supports the measure and has said she will sign it into law.
-- The Associated Press contributed to this post
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I will not go to Washington State till they change the law back.
Good! We don’t want ignorant people here that have that way of thinking! Besides, legalizing it here will only generate revenue for the state!
"Good! We don’t want ignorant people here that have that way of thinking! Besides, legalizing it here will only generate revenue for the state!"
Ignorant? Why? Because he holds dear the traditions and moral campus of our parents and didn't sell his soul like hollywood and the extreme left did?
Generate revenue? You mean like the rest of the leftist states where high taxes and no revenue is the norm ala Kalifornia which is going bankrupt come march?
Bruce!Don't you know that is wrong? We're dinosaurs. "gotta make way for the HOMO superiors"....Yeah,how much revenue are we talking that gays generate? They are 6-7%.Maybe 10,don't think so.
Disorientation better known as the circling disease claims another victim...what goes around; comes around...
Mother Nature takes another licking....
Perplexing. I was not aware of a law that specificly prohibited same sex marriage to start with. I know that it is against the Christian ethic, but those ethics are self induced to start with, and have no true meaning in reality, except to those who want to spread their beliefs through out the planet. I guess this is a great blow to Benni Hinn and the other "Christian" shysters.....
2 Timothy 3:1-5. 1 Corinthians 6:9. Romans 1:26-27. this is the only Low that matters.