The Columbia City Bakery has just announced that, starting this Saturday and

The Columbia City Bakery has just announced that, starting this Saturday and lasting up until the election, it will be selling heart-shaped shortbread cookies to raise money for Washington Families Standing Together. WAFST is working to get voters to approve Referendum 71, which will preserve the state’s new expanded domestic-partnership rights (if you haven’t heard, the referendum has just been certified and will be on this year’s ballot). The cookies will cost $1.50, of which $1 will go to WASFT. Voracious is somewhat dismayed to find that there will be sugar rainbows on some of the cookies (LGBT Design Council: is our logo redesign finished yet?). However, having tasted the bakery’s shortbread on numerous occasions, we are looking forward to supporting the cause. Repeatedly.UPDATE: Changed the title of this post from “Pro-71” to “Yes on 71” to make it clear that a yes vote on the referendum preserves the domestic-partnership rights recently passed by the legislature. Up until now, the fight had been to keep R-71 off the ballot. Oo, this confusion bodes ill…