 Seattle has our back. Big time. This picture at right is of the huge march down Broadway in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood - the Emerald City's version of the Castro. A friend in the crowd spoke to someone in Mayor Greg Nickels' office who estimated over 12,000 people were in this march.
I will have more photos and information up later once my sources get their stuff uploaded and sent to me. The Stranger has some more photos of the march.
Prop 8 is catalyzing a nationwide marriage equality movement. Washington State's Supreme Court upheld the state's marriage ban in a shocking 2006 decision widely believed to have been motivated by 3 liberal justices facing well-funded conservative challengers that year (WA elects Supreme Court justices in contested races). But marriage equality advocates have vowed to undo this by, piece by piece, legalizing marriage.
With 2/3 majorities in both houses and Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire winning reelection last week, Democrats in Olympia are now strongly considering overturning the state's marriage ban (which exists in the law and not the state constitution) as marriage rights activists mobilize in the Evergreen State.
Our opponents may have won the Prop 8 battle but it may prove to have been a pyrrhic victory. |
