Comments | goteam: Well, hey. Go Oregon State Senate!

goteam

Well, hey. Go Oregon State Senate!

Jul 08, 2005 14:53

SB 1000, which would create same-sex civil unions in Oregon, passed the state senate this morning. Now the question is: will its "insert 'and civil union' after all references to marriage in the state Constitution, and while you're at it, substitute 'spouse' or 'partner' for all references to 'husband' or 'wife'" form survive the House, much less ( Read more... )

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Comments 15

triath July 8 2005, 22:16:19 UTC

Awesome!

This quote cracks me up, "State Sen. Charles Starr, R-Hillsboro, said the development of same-sex families ... often leaves children without fathers."

What about the families with two fathers?

copaseticz July 8 2005, 22:19:37 UTC

I think my personal fav was "Republican Sen. Jeff Kruse of Roseburg called the measure 'another step down the road to Armageddon' and questioned whether pedophiles will want equal rights. "

triath July 8 2005, 22:38:07 UTC

That's not funny. It's one of my personal pet peeves when someone associates gays with pedophiles. Grrrrr...

copaseticz July 8 2005, 22:17:04 UTC

sweeeeet.

Yeah, the ACLU was working pretty hard on that one. My friend's dad who works with them kept coming home looking really tired during that process.

olstad July 8 2005, 23:10:04 UTC

yaaaay Oregon!

this still doesn't make up for initiative 34

goteam July 9 2005, 02:25:19 UTC

Which one was 34? We still have a No on 36 in our window.

iainuki July 8 2005, 23:15:25 UTC

http://www.planetout.com/news/election/article.html?2005/07/08/2

iainuki July 8 2005, 23:16:16 UTC

Oops. I should say, "news article that doesn't require registration, on the same topic."

goteam July 9 2005, 02:26:13 UTC

Thanks! I didn't have to register to see the article I linked to, but maybe I set a cookie for that site some other time I don't remember about.

qousqous July 8 2005, 23:55:20 UTC

alas, it seems that the house leadership doesn't even plan to bring it to a vote.

and to think it passed by such a large margin in the senate.

goteam July 9 2005, 02:30:46 UTC

Yeah, I was sort of alluding to said suckitude in my post. Ugh.

goteam July 9 2005, 02:40:45 UTC

Also I didn't have time to ramble on again about how I want the reciprocal beneficiaries bill to pass too, and civil unions to be open to opposite-sex couples, and then for the whole mess to make its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court (oh wait, I'm trying my best not to think too much about the Supremes minus Sandra Day O'Connor... right).