Governor Chris Gregoire announces support for full marriage equality in 2012

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http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2012/01/governor-chris-gregoire-announces-support-for-full-marriage-equality-in-2012.html

In a major boost to Washington United for Marriage‘s efforts to make Washington the seventh state where marriage equality is the law of the land, Governor Chris Gregoire this morning declared her full support for legislation to overturn the state’s discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and permit gay and lesbian couples to legally wed — as they now can in six other states.

“It’s time, it’s the right thing to do, and I will introduce a bill to do it,” Gregoire said at a press conference in Olympia, flanked by Representatives Jamie Pedersen and Marko Liias, along with Senator Ed Murray. “I say that as a wife, a mother, a student of the law, and above all as a Washingtonian with a lifelong commitment to equality and freedom. Some say domestic partnerships are the same as marriage. That’s a version of the discriminatory ‘separate but equal’ argument.”