Comments on: Washington Gets All-But-The-Name

By: occono

occono — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:34:30 +0000

And Focus on the Family are trying to get it repealed, of course:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/04/15/domestic-partnership-bill-passesbut-it-may-not-become-law

By: cd

cd — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:54:12 +0000

As politics, it’s smart and strategically excellent. It keeps the antis focussed on California, Iowa, and the Northeast.

Good news in New York, btw. The state Senator who is taking up the SSM legalization bill thinks he has sufficient votes together to get passage.

In New Jersey the grapevine is that the governor and legislature will pass it during the lame duck session after their elections there, like they did their death penalty repeal in their lame duck session last time (December 2007 iirc).

Lastly, MassEquality’s Marc Solomon has now gone to work for CalEquality. If anyone can organize a successful referendum that repeals Prop. 8, it’s him.

By: Dyssonance

Dyssonance — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:11:14 +0000

I will believe it is all but the name (which to be frank, is actually acceptable to me, but I don’t count) when it confers the rights of kinship.

Reading it, I suspect it will fail on the same grounds as every other “alternative”, and so cannot extend congratulations.