Why sign the petition that will put Referendum 74 on the ballot in November?
1. It is important. 2. The legislative vote was very close. 3. All Washington state voters should be allowed to voice their opinions or beliefs on important issues that will impact all of us.
If the petition receives enough signatures to go on the ballot in November we will only be voting on SB-6239. This bill changes the definition of marriage: from Webster’s dictionary: legal union of a man and a woman, consummated, as husband and wife.
In this session the Washington legislature, in an extremely close vote, changed the age old definition of marriage, see Webster’s definition above, which is understood in all countries, to the new definition: The legal union between any two people, same sex or different sex.
British common law, from which most of our laws come, requires that a marriage, legal union, be consummated making the man and woman now husband and wife.
I have heard many say that if Referendum 74 is put on the ballot and loses that means same sex couples will be second-class citizens and lose their rights and privileges . This is not true.
SB-5688 has already passed. This is the so-called “everything but marriage” bill. SB 5688-S2.E- digest, this is the short form: “Declares that for all purposes under state law, state registered domestic partners shall be treated the same as married spouses. “
This couldn’t be clearer. Read the laws, see what they actually say. Don’t give up your right to vote. It is wrong to deny your fellow citizens their right to vote. Sign Referendum 74.
Pat Jack
Snohomish
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