Slog News & Arts

Line Out

Music & Nightlife

« Interviews with Geniuses | Desperation, Thy Name is the R... »

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

WA State Supremes: Not Going to Reconsider Anderson

posted by on October 25 at 14:08 PM

The WA State Supreme Court refused to reconsider their decision on gay marriage—their refusal was made public on the same day that New Jersey’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of equal treatment for same-sex couples.

Timing, as they say, is everything in politics—not that, you know, there was anything political about the WA State Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision.

RSS icon Comments

1

It felt really dirty filling in the oval next to Alexander to get Groen out in the primary stage.

I'm glad I don't have to do that again for the general. Fucking scumbag.

Posted by David Summerlin | October 25, 2006 2:13 PM
2

Given New Jersey's ruling, it sure does make the WA Supremes look like hypocritical fools, tho.

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 25, 2006 2:28 PM
3

I accidentally bubbled in Gerry's name on the general election ballot. D'oh!

Posted by him | October 25, 2006 2:41 PM
4

The Washington Supreme Court handed down an open, glaring and scandalous issue of lies.

The gratifying ruling from New Jersey was a total victory and exposes Gerry Alexander, Charles Johnson, Barbara Madsen, Richard Sanders and Jim Johnson as kangaroo court hypocrites.

We should neither forget nor forgive.

Posted by Andrew | October 25, 2006 3:04 PM
5

On a related note, there is a small plane flying a "Stephen Johnson for State Supreme Court" banner on the Eastside as we speak. Can Susan Owens top that?

Posted by HoSSerif | October 25, 2006 3:14 PM
6

fuck i hate them. i can never make fun of new jersey again now.

Posted by blehpunk | October 25, 2006 3:19 PM
7

Barbara Madsen is an incompetent, mentally-challenged piece of shit.

Sigh. Such are the trials of democracy.

Posted by Fnarf | October 25, 2006 3:36 PM
8

i dont care if hitler runs against her next time, im not voting for that snatchy barbara madsen

Posted by blehpunk | October 25, 2006 3:45 PM
9

I love what Beau Burriola wrote in the SGN a few weeks back. He summed up the aftermath of the Washington decision perfectly:

“Up until this summer, most of us urban Gay folk have been living peacefully in our Queer neighborhoods, imagining ourselves to be pretty equally protected in our good ole progressive Washington State.

We have a massive Gay community, a Gay chorus the size of the Chinese army, Gay historians and athletes, an annual parade that swallows the town, our own film festival, and a Gay phone book pointing to a million other reasons why Seattle's Gay community is strong.

We've watched the fight for marriage equality go to the Supreme Court and imagined that surely the justices would see that the system was wrong and had to be corrected, but the majority decision to deny marriage protection to same sex couples shattered that illusion of equality completely.”

Posted by Andrew | October 25, 2006 4:35 PM
10

Will Jamie P. sponsor legislation to repeal DOMA? Our fight goes to the legislature. Bring it.

Posted by SB | October 25, 2006 4:57 PM
11

"a gay chorus the size of the Chinese army".

Now, how the hell am I supposed to get that death-by-treacle image out of my head?

And -- just my two cents -- I invite the cowardly State Supe's to eat my AIDS-infected ass.

Posted by Mark Mitchell | October 25, 2006 5:02 PM
12

As I said, this will end only when a nice married Canadian gay couple are denied the rights of married couples - which under NAFTA and FTAA they're entitled to - while in the USA.

Not before.

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 25, 2006 5:08 PM
13

Where was this made public? I've been searching the lazyweb for a while, and still haven't come across anything that confirms this (even the Seattle Times and the PI have yet to report something).

Posted by gnarr | October 25, 2006 5:31 PM
14

Nevermind. The PI just posted something.

Posted by gnarr | October 25, 2006 5:58 PM
15

Well, I can't say exactly where we got it—but I can say this: we had a Supreme Court justice was in our office this afternoon.

Posted by Dan Savage | October 25, 2006 7:00 PM
16

Man, I am so bummed out.

Posted by Soupytwist | October 25, 2006 7:40 PM
17

And when you interviewed the judge after the decision, didn't he assure you that the decision would be appealed and heard again?

Posted by Em from Philly | October 26, 2006 5:49 PM

Comments Closed

In order to combat spam, we are no longer accepting comments on this post (or any post more than 14 days old).