A chilling effect on all future initiative efforts to defend marriage?

September 20, 2011

Here is the latest on our upcoming trial (rescheduled for October 3) as reported today by Gary Randall, President of Faith and Freedom Network.


The Judge has just canceled the upcoming R-71 trial.

 

The case, Doe v. Reed, is to decide if the names of those 138,000 who signed R-71 petitions should be turned over to several homosexual activist groups so they may "contact" those who signed the petitions in support of natural marriage.

 

Instead of the scheduled 5-day trial, the judge decided this morning to hear oral arguments from both sides and make his decision based on the briefing, deposition testimony and exhibits.

 

A summary judgment.

 

As you know. Secretary of State Reed and Attorney General McKenna have argued, at great expense to the state, that the names should be released to the homosexual activists in the name of disclosure.

 

We have argued that this is an unusual circumstance which puts pro-marriage citizens who participated in the initiative process in danger of unwanted threatening calls, contacts or worse, and should be handled with discretion and consideration.

 

If Reed and McKenna prevail, it will create a chilling affect on all future initiative efforts regarding homosexual efforts to redefine the culture.

 

We will keep you posted as this develops.

Gary Randall


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Mission

The mission of the new PAC is to organize the effort to gather the 120,577 required signatures for Referendum 71 by July 25, 2009 to bring the controversial Senate Bill 5688 before the voters of Washington State in November. SB 5688 is a 110 page document which includes the phrase "marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships" 180 times.

 

SB 5688 was packaged and presented to the legislature as a Domestic Partnerships expansion of benefits. In truth, it will demolish the state's historical understanding and definition of marriage as that of uniting a man and a woman for life as Washington State will immediately become subject to litigation by same-sex partners demanding that the courts overturn the Defense of Marriage Act and impose "same-sex marriage" (as happened recently in California prior to Proposition 8).