LGBT POV

Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert took on Protect Marriage Washington and their battle to strip away Domestic Partnership rights in Washington state this Nov. 3.

Colbert opens with:

“Yeah, they call it “Everything but Marriage,” but I say if it looks like a duck, and files a joint tax return like a duck, and gets to visit its duck partner in a duck hospital, you might as well register at the duck Pottery Barn because it is gay duck marriage.”

Colbert just goes on from there. Please watch. This is from Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, broadcast Monday night.

While the eyes of the LGBT nation are now focused on President Obama signing the federal hate crimes bill and on beating back the Religious Right Prop 8 sequel in Maine – same sex couples in Washington state are sweating bullets that in just over a week they might lose the simplest of family relationship protections – Domestic Partnerships. This is, in fact, the second flank in the Religious Right’s war on same sex rights and relationships. Click inside for a detailed explanation.

As Washington state is fighting to retain it’s Domestic Partnership law - the subject of a referendum on Nov. 3 – Congressmember Tammy Baldwin today testified how she and her partner of 13 years are deprived of the same federal benefits as her colleagues enjoy as married couples. Click inside for the transcript of her remarks.