At a ceremony in Olympia today, Washington governor Chris Gregoire will sign into law a bill legalizing marriage equality in the state. Watch a live stream of the ceremony, starting at 11:30 Pacific time, here.
The bill was passed by both the state House and Senate and will make Washington the seventh state (plus DC) where same-sex couples can get married. Conservative groups already say they’ll collect the signatures necessary to put the measure to a November vote, but considering California officials just ruled it unconstitutional to take away marriage rights that had already been granted, those efforts may not succeed.
“I knew now was the time to face it,” Gov. Gregoire said in an interview with The Advocate last month after throwing her political weight behind the bill. “And as I faced it, both as a mom and as a wife, and as a Catholic, as a governor, and wrote it down on a piece of paper, the logic of it all fell into the words that I put down there.”
We did it, friends. Seven down, 43 to go.
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SEVEN DOWN, FORTY-THREE TO GO.
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