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OLYMPIA, Wash | Wed Feb 8, 2012 6:39pm EST

OLYMPIA, Wash (Reuters) - The Washington state House of Representatives approved a Senate-passed bill to legalize gay marriage in a vote on Wednesday that moved the state another step closer to becoming the seventh to recognize same-sex nuptials.

Governor Christine Gregoire has promised to sign the bill into law, but opponents are planning to seek its repeal at the polls in November. House passage of the measure, on a vote of 55-43, came a day after a federal appeals court declared California's voter-approved gay marriage ban unconstitutional.

(Reporting by Nicole Neroulias; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)

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TaxPayer1040 wrote:
Glad to know Tax dollars are being spent on IMPORTANT STUFF Like this! OMG, Really Shouldn’t this kind of thing be voted on and not Elected officials making the policies for PERSONAL Preferences? To Me Government should stay out of Marriage anyway, Marriage is a RELIGIOUS thing not a State thing.

Feb 08, 2012 4:37pm EST  --  Report as abuse
John_Seattle wrote:
Why Gay Marriage is logically and fundamentally perverse and destructive to the very fabric of society:

The foundation of all earthly authority is agreement … one-ness. Where there is agreement, there is bonding. The first bondings and agreements that ever took place in our world were the bondings of family… a Man and a Woman, a sperm and an egg. This one-ness grew and multiplied and created… the core of every government in the world. The core of government MUST honor and protect that which created itself to begin with.

To support Gay Marriage is to promote the antithesis of what created government and society itself, essentially destroying the fabric of society. The Declaration of Independence talked about upholding “Nature’s Law”. Nature itself declares Man and Woman to be the “One-ness” and agreement that multiplies h…uman beings, thus creating the need for a society, originating from family, both in humans and the animal world.

The Gay world cannot oppose nature itself either. Consider “Gay Marriage” and adopted children. In general, there is still a “mommy and daddy”, the effeminate and masculine.

The support and recognition of a government toward the core destructive force against the very government itself, is truly the end game toward the downfall of any society. It is as if the government is choosing to inject itself with the “societal aids” or “cancer” virus. It will alter the DNA of government in a way that will cause it to implode upon itself. What a tragedy!

Food for thought for any “thinking” people out there.

Feb 14, 2012 2:46pm EST  --  Report as abuse
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