Nov 4th, 2009 - The Seattle Times
A narrowly leading "everything but marriage" ballot measure gave hope Wednesday to gay rights activists that Washington might soon be the first state in which a measure dealing with equality for same-sex couples won voter affirmation.
"It would be historic," said Dan Hawes, a field director with the Washington, D.C.-based National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Maine voters on Tuesday repealed the state's gay marriage law, passed by the Legislature earlier this year. But Washington voters appeared to be favoring a law that grants gay and lesbian couples all the state-granted benefits given to heterosexual couples.
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