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2012 Senate Bill 6239: Redefining marriage to allow same-gender civil marriages (Senate Roll Call)

Passed 28 to 21 in the Senate on February 1, 2012, legalizes gay marriage in Washington, provides certain legal protections for objecting religious organizations, alters the status of domestic partnerships, and requires Washington to recognize domestic partnerships that were formed in other states.
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The vote was 28 in favor, 21 against, and 0 not voting.
(Senate Roll Call)

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Vote

In Favor

Against

Not Voting

Undecided

Republican

	18%
	81%
	0%

22 total votes

Democrat

	88%
	11%
	0%

27 total votes

Voters

	16%
	83%
	0%

12 total votes

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Redefining marriage to allow same-gender civil marriages

IN FAVOR

SENATE DEMOCRATS

Brown (D)	Chase (D)	Conway (D)	Eide (D)	Fraser (D)
Frockt (D)	Harper (D)	Hatfield (D)	Haugen (D)	Hobbs (D)
Kastama (D)	Keiser (D)	Kilmer (D)	Kline (D)	Kohl-Welles (D)
McAuliffe (D)	Murray (D)	Nelson (D)	Prentice (D)	Pridemore (D)
Ranker (D)	Regala (D)	Rolfes (D)	Tom (D)

SENATE REPUBLICANS

AGAINST

SENATE DEMOCRATS

Hargrove (D)

Sheldon (D)

Shin (D)

SENATE REPUBLICANS

Baumgartner (R)	Becker (R)	Benton (R)	Carrell (R)	Delvin (R)
Ericksen (R)	Hewitt (R)	HolmquistNewbry (R)	Honeyford (R)	King (R)
Morton (R)	Padden (R)	Parlette (R)	Roach (R)	Schoesler (R)
Stevens (R)	Swecker (R)	Zarelli (R)

SENATE LEGISLATORS ALL VOTES

n Baumgartner (R)	n Becker (R)	n Benton (R)	Y Brown (D)	n Carrell (R)
Y Chase (D)	Y Conway (D)	n Delvin (R)	Y Eide (D)	n Ericksen (R)
Y Fain (R)	Y Fraser (D)	Y Frockt (D)	n Hargrove (D)	Y Harper (D)
Y Hatfield (D)	Y Haugen (D)	n Hewitt (R)	Y Hill (R)	Y Hobbs (D)
n HolmquistNewbry (R)	n Honeyford (R)	Y Kastama (D)	Y Keiser (D)	Y Kilmer (D)
n King (R)	Y Kline (D)	Y Kohl-Welles (D)	Y Litzow (R)	Y McAuliffe (D)
n Morton (R)	Y Murray (D)	Y Nelson (D)	n Padden (R)	n Parlette (R)
Y Pflug (R)	Y Prentice (D)	Y Pridemore (D)	Y Ranker (D)	Y Regala (D)
n Roach (R)	Y Rolfes (D)	n Schoesler (R)	n Sheldon (D)	n Shin (D)
n Stevens (R)	n Swecker (R)	Y Tom (D)	n Zarelli (R)

Senate Roll Call on 2012 Senate Bill 6239

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Comments

Re: 2012 Senate Bill 6239 (Redefining marriage to allow same-gender civil marriages) by prematureejaculation on May 3, 2012
In my own opinion, I am not on the side of same sex marriage. YES, we know that we cannot avoid those same sex relationship but ending up their relationship into marriage is not quite in favor in the Roman Catholic side. Marriage is the union of man and woman, so if both sex will be united that is possibly not marriage.

But that was all my opinion and I just want to share it out to everyone here.

Good day! Thanks =)

Re: 2012 Senate Bill 6239 (Redefining marriage to allow same-gender civil marriages) by lizziephel on February 13, 2012

Bet that the hootels and motels love this ammendment. We should be overrun on day one!

Re: 2012 Senate Bill 6239 (Redefining marriage to allow same-gender civil marriages) by Lainie59 on February 7, 2012
Even if the state does not force churches into performing homosexual marriages, the damage to society remains.

As I said in another post, once the state gives itself the authority to redefine the essence of things, the state becomes the arbitor of how society interacts. Do you honestly believe the legalizing of homosexual marriage is the end of the road? Once the state has codified into law the embracing of all types of sins and vices, the people become immune to wanting that which is good, healthy, and true and will demand an end to any concessions the state may make regarding the rights of the religious.

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