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BURIEN, Washington , - A volunteer working on a campaign in support of traditional marriage, as well as a pregnant bystander, were shaken up after a heated confrontation this weekend with a homosexual activist. Arlene Mark, a volunteer for Preserve Marriage Washington, which is urging voters to reject a ballot measure to legalize homosexual “marriage,” says the attack began while she was waiting in her car to distribute literature to other volunteers. According to Arlene, a man ran at her car, hit the back of it and ripped the Reject 74 campaign sign off the side. Arlene had taped the sign onto her vehicle so that other volunteers who were going to meet her in the parking lot could recognize her. Arlene related in a press conference yesterday that as the man tore the sign, threw it on the ground, and stomped on it, he yelled, “This is what I think of your f—ing sign! I’m gay and proud of it.” The man then reportedly shouted profanities at Arlene calling her a “b—” and screami...

OLYMPIA, Washington , July 31, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - The fight for traditional marriage in Washington state is heating up with the announcement that billionaire Jeff Bezos , the founder of Amazon .com, and his wife, MacKenzie, have pledged $2.5 million to homosexual lobbyists. The donation comes after opponents of the state’s new gay “marriage” law stopped the legislation in its tracks by collecting and filing over 240,000 signatures in support of a referendum on the November ballot. The contribution makes the Amazon couple the largest financial backer of homosexual “rights” in the state, according to  the NY Times , far outstripping the $100k donation by Bill Gates and Steven A. Ballmer of Microsoft. Gov. Christine Gregoire of Washington State, a Democrat, signed  the homosexual “marriage” bill into law in February, making Washington the seventh U.S. state to redefine marriage, in addition to the District of Columbia . The bill was expected to take effe...

OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON , June 14, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - An effort to place the definition of marriage before voters in Washington state has secured its spot on the November ballot, after the state approved the required number of signatures on a petition. Washington Governor Christine Gregoire . Initiative 74 gathered 247,331 signatures supporting its place on the ballot, far more than the legal requirement of 120,577, state officials announced Tuesday. Earlier this year Washington state became the seventh state , in addition to the District of Columbia , to allow same-sex couples to legally wed. Now that the referendum has been approved, law requires that the new marriage definition be put on hold until the state’s voters decide. Although Washington has allowed “all but marriage” privileges to same-sex couples since 2008, the state legislature passed a law granting the name of marriage in February, a measure that had been set to go into effect this month. A sur...

WASHINGTON, June 8, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) — Washington State ’s new gay “marriage” law has been halted one day before it was set to come into effect, after Preserve Marriage Washington (PMW) collected and filed over 240,000 signatures opposing the redefinition of marriage . The “marriage” law, signed by Governor Chris Gregoire , would have made Washington the seventh state to legalize gay “marriages.” Brian Brown , president of National Organization for Marriage , commended  PMW, stating that the successful signature campaign demonstrates the “deep support that traditional marriage enjoys” and “sets the stage for a tremendous victory for marriage this November.” “The signature gathering effort produced more signatures than have ever been collected by any referendum committee in the history of the state,” Brown declared. The submitted signatures will be reviewed over the next week, to determine if they are sufficient to qualify to put a referendum to protect...

The Associated Press on an important landmark being reached (and surpassed!) by our allies in Washington State ! Opponents of gay marriage say they have enough signatures to qualify a referendum for the November ballot. Preserve Marriage Washington plans to submit more than 200,000 signatures Wednesday, blocking the law from taking effect on Thursday. State officials will review the filings over the next week to determine whether the referendum will qualify for a public vote. The referendum seeks to overturn the measure allowing same-sex marriage in the state. That law was passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov.  Chris Gregoire earlier this year. The Washington secretary of state 's office recommends that campaigns submit about 150,000 signatures in order to provide a cushion for invalid or duplicate signatures. --  AP Related articles Opponents place Wash. gay marriage law on hold (sfgate.com) Opponents block Washington state...

SEATTLE, Washington , April 16, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Several Catholic parishes in Seattle are refusing to participate in an effort to oppose same sex “marriage” legislation, despite the local bishop’s support for the campaign. A bill legalizing homosexual “marriage” was passed by the Washington State legislature earlier this year and signed into law by Catholic Governor Christine Gregoire . Opponents are attempting to gather the 120,000 signatures necessary for a referendum, so that the state’s citizens will have a chance to vote on the legislation this November. Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain In a letter sent to parishes throughout the Archdiocese, Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain authorized churches to gather signatures for the referendum, and reiterated his support for the measure. The archbishop has been an active opponent of gay “marriage” in Washington State, and testified against it before a State Senate Committee earlier this year. At least three Catholic chur...

February 21, 2012 (FRCblog.com) - My home state of Washington has produced some of America ’s leading corporations and entrepreneurs: Microsoft and Bill Gates ; the Nordstrom, Boeing and Weyerhaeuser families and their eponymously named companies; the Eddie Bauer sporting goods empire; and the nearly omnipresent Starbucks (almost 11,000 stores worldwide). Starbucks emerged in the 1970s at Seattle’s Pike Place Market .  One of my sisters bought me a bag of cocoa powder from this location more than three decades ago; if I still had it, it likely would fetch a nice collector’s price. For many years, I’ve enjoyed going to Starbucks, becoming acquainted with any number of “baristas” and drinking enough of its variously flavored beverages that “grande” characterizes my waistline as much as the size of a given drink.  Even when traveling in the Middle East, the taste of a frappuccino has been a welcome reminder that one can go home again.  And I’ve always been glad to go int...

Image via Wikipedia TRENTON, New Jersey , February 20, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - New Jersey governor Chris Christie vetoed a gay “marriage” bill hours after it passed the legislature on Friday, saying that the issue should be offered to voters in a referendum to decide. “I am adhering to what I’ve said since this bill was first introduced – an issue of this magnitude and importance, which requires a constitutional amendment, should be left to the people of New Jersey to decide,” Christie said in his statement accompanying the veto. Christie emphasized that he has been “just as adamant that same-sex couples in a civil union deserve the very same rights and benefits enjoyed by married couples – as well as the strict enforcement of those rights and benefits.” Therefore, he said, the “conditional veto” would include the creation of an “Ombudsman for Civil Unions ” to increase awareness of and compliance with the civil union law. The Senate had passed a measure redefining marriage on Mo...

February 13, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Gov. Christine Gregoire of Washington State has signed into law a gay “marriage” bill that will force church-owned facilities to accommodate homosexual ceremonies. Gregoire, a lame-duck Democrat governor who proposed the bill earlier this year, celebrated the end of defining marriage as between a man and a woman as she signed the bill on Monday. Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire “I’m proud our same-sex couples will no longer be treated as separate but equal,” she said. The bill makes Washington the sixth U.S. state to redefine marriage, in addition to the District of Columbia . Local religious leaders have been particularly alarmed about the bill because it will force facilities owned by churches that are regularly used for marriages to be offered to homosexual couples. The  bill text  states that religious organizations that provide “accommodations, facilities, advantages, privileges, services, or goods related to the s...

Image via Wikipedia OLYMPIA, Washington , February 2, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - A bill to legalize same-sex “ marriage ” has passed the Washington state Senate , paving the way for passage in the House of Representatives as early as next week. SB 6239 passed the upper chamber 28-21 on Wednesday night, days after gaining the approval of a Senate committee on a party-line vote . In the full vote, four Republicans crossed party lines to support the bill, while three Democrats voted against. The measure is expected to pass the House, and has already won the support of Democrat governor Christine Gregoire , making it likely that Washington will soon become the sixth state to recognize the new definition of marriage. Earlier last month, Gregoire, now in her final year in office after choosing not to run for a third term, announced that she would introduce the bill after several years of opposing the marriage redefinition. “I’m sorry that it took me as long as it did. But it’s genuine...