But this isn’t about marriage. So you can have your religious objections and eat your equal civil rights cake too.The reject R71 campaign is in full swing and the political action committee Protect Marriage WA recently released a 30 second online ad talking about how God created a (weird looking) Caucasian man, gave him a blond wife and thus was marriage defined.You can watch the whole thing after the jump, including a non sequitur shot of a family playing in the leaves. SB 5688, passed in Olympia this year didn’t give gay couples the right to marry, it expanded the list of rights same sex and elderly domestic partners. If Referendum 71 passes next month, it means those partners will be able to do things like receive death benefits if one member of the couple is, say, a firefighter and dies in the line of duty.Sacred Ground from Protect Marriage Washington on Vimeo.
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