From MyWay News:
Washington State OKs Gay Civil Rights Law
By RACHEL LA CORTE
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – Before he died of AIDS, the state’s first openly gay lawmaker asked a friend for a promise: that he would keep working on gay civil rights legislation. That was more than a decade ago. Now, the legislation Cal Anderson championed, 30 years in the making, is about to become law.
“I remember the day that Cal told me he didn’t have much longer to live,” said Rep. Ed Murray, a Seattle Democrat and one of four openly gay lawmakers now in the Legislature. “One of the things he asked was if I would continue work on this bill.”
On Friday, the Senate passed the legislation 25-23, with a lone Republican joining Democrats in voting in favor. The House approved it 61-37, and Democratic Gov. Christine Groggier said she would sign it Tuesday.
Slowly this nation is realizing that discrimination in any format is wrong. Punishing people simply for who they choose to love is so very wrong. As for religion, Jesus the Christ was a liberal by every definition of the word. He hung out with the social outcasts. He got pissed at people making money in the name of God.
From Stonewall to now, the fight will continue until freedom is for all people.