I support efforts to legalize gay marriage in Washington State. However, it’s not at the top of my list of priorities. Legalizing gay marriage may drive a wedge into Democratic constituencies and harm efforts to support economic justice, education, and social services. I fear that lawmakers prefer dealing with wedge issues over economic issues.
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Marriage equality and voting rights for corporations, please!
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I look forward to the day when corporations are free to marry whomever they want – even including other corporations (or would that simply be a corporate merger?). When will we learn to accept corporations as people just like the rest of us? We should all be outraged that King County Elections has deprived a […]