Marriage Equality Petition 2009

Please sign the petition below and ask your friends to do the same. By doing this you will let your elected leaders know that you support marriage equality. By sending this to your friends and family members they will know not only that you support marriage equality, but you will give them an opportunity to engage their social networks in the cause as well. If they have questions, this petition can serve as an important opportunity to start a dialog about the freedom to marry with people you know.

Click here to read about the Iowa Supreme Court decision in support of marriage equality. Iowa now becomes the third state in the U.S. to end discrimination in the issuance of marriage licenses. Iowa joins countries such as Canada, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, and South Africa that allow gays and lesbians to legally marry.

Click here to read about the Vermont vote in support of marriage equality. The Vermont marriage equality bill has now passed the House and Senate but the Governor says he will veto it. The question is: can we override the veto?

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Governor Christine Gregoire (if you live in Washington)
President Barack Obama
Senator Maria Cantwell (if you live in Washington)
Senator Patty Murray (if you live in Washington)
Vice President Joseph Biden
Your Representative (if you live in Washington)
Your State Senator (if you live in Washington)

On the occasion of Iowa's recongition that the freedom to marry is a fundamental human right, I pledge my support to help build support for marriage equality in Washington state.

I applaud the Washington State legislature for creating the domestic partnership registry in 2007, and for passing the domestic partnership expansion bill in 2008. I urge quick passage of the 2009 domestic partnership expansion bill.

I believe the freedom to marry is a basic human right and the decision to marry is a deeply personal choice. Washington should join Iowa, Canada, Massachusetts and Connecticut among other places, in allowing same-sex couples to marry.

Marriage is about love commitment and mutual concern. Legal marriage brings with it over 1,500 legal rights--over 1,100 federal protections and several hundred state rights. I urge US Congress to repeal DOMA which prohibits federal recognition of gay and lesbian couples who have legally married in a state or abroad.

Ending the exclusion of same-sex couples and their families from marriage will help families and harm no one.

At issue is civil marriage, not religious marriage. Faith traditions will always have the right to decide at what weddings to officiate and what marriages to recognize.

Denying same-sex couples the freedom to marry stigmatizes all members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community as second-class citizens. The harm extends far beyond couples and includes their children, their extended families and gay youth as well. Particularly hard hit are older gay couples and surviving partners.

I stand ready to support the freedom to marry by talking to friends and family about the importance of marriage equality and the obstacles gay and lesbian families face everyday because they lack the freedom to marry.

In knowing that a copy of this petition will be sent to elected leaders, I add my voice to the hundreds of thousands across the country who are willing to lobby our legislators in support of ending the exclusion of same-sex couples and their families from marriage.

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