Seattle protests gay marriage ban

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The march was organized by Join the Impact Seattle and the Queer Alliance Coalition.

It's time to "take us out of the sheets and into the streets," said Juliana Shadlen during a speech on behalf of United Peoples Coalition, a Seattle Central Community College student group.

The rally started outside the college around 11 a.m., and participants started marching toward Westlake Center at 11:30.

Representatives from gay labor organizations and the transgender community, as well as Iraq war veterans, also spoke at the rally.

Join the Impact organizers also collected signatures for a petition to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. The group hopes to collect 1 million signatures across the country and present the petition to the president on Jan. 21.

During his presidential campaign, Obama said he opposed a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and supported civil unions, but wanted to let states decide about marriage.

It's a shame that they have to protest for the right to get married in a so called "free country."

Well as soleil10 has said "the majority has spoken" same-sex marriage should be against the law.

The homophobes will always be with us, but they should not have the right to dictate how anyone else should behave, think, or emote.

Why should anyone want a gay man to marry a woman (or any combination of like that)? That's pure pain and suffering.

No I would not march.

It's pointless and ruins things.

Agreed unimatrix,

With each passing generation, American society becomes increasingly liberal concerning social issues.

There will be a day when our great grandchildren look at us and ask, "now why the hell would they want to ban gay marriage?"

It's identical to the bans placed on interracial marriage before my lifetime. They're archaic, backwards, and bigoted. It would be hard to imagine myself living in that type of society.

@ Jammer - Marching is not pointless. It raises awareness for a cause and shows the government and society that people will still come out in numbers to support something they believe in. What could it possible "ruin"?

I'd like to see a march organized in New York. It's about damn time we legalized gay marriage- I never thought Connecticut and Mass would do it before us. Hmm, I should really look into that...

I did march (at Seattle's first protest in Nov- with 1,000s of others), I will march again, and I'd applaud anyone else who'll join in.

The march included every walk of life, and I was proud to be surrounded by a lot of other "allies" that realize the rights we've been given absolutely must become available to all....now, not tomorrow.

nothing pointless there homie

Let us march and chant and pray.

Thank you to all who believe in and support Equality for All.

I already have marched, and will continue to do so until this archaic law is lifted once and for all!

1 Corinthians 6:9 (New International Version)

9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders

I did not say it, God did.

x12, nowhere did it say that the sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, or homosexuals should be FORCED to "inherit" the "Kingdom of God." I'm an atheist that looks at porn - I'm not going to inherit a fictional Kingdom. It's my choice to.

And anyways...

Marching doesn't help. The federal government doesn't care about us.

They should Riot, that would be interesting. Anyway I am with them 100%.

I just found out by watching this tv show ... it seems that all homosexual people can be healed and made heterosexual simply by removing a demon that is possessing them by praying ... I think that is how it goes.

That being the case if all of them are just healed then gay marriage rights are not needed.

Demon ?

i hope that when same-sex marriage is available to all, the glbt community will take an interest in the struggles of their allies, as we have done for them.

I definitely support this!

There was a time when you could be put to death for saying the Earth was round or it revolved around the Sun by people who were "doing God's work". Do we need to have people "doing God's work" today? I am not gay and the thought of me having a sexual relationship with another man is out of the question (actually... repugnent). But I think these people should be allowed to get married. At least it will not result in unwanted pregnancies.

If the only way to protect the meaning of marriage is to deny it to a minority based on the argument that this minority is too immoral to be allowed into this exclusive club, then why doesn't the government deny straight people convicted of various sexually questionable behavior (i.e. prostitutes, johns, perverts in bathrooms, ect...) the right to marry? Even a convicted rapist or pedophile can marry as long as it's only to the opposite sex.

There are people who get a power trip out of judging and looking down at others. As long as they can deny gay citizens the right to marry, its just one more thing they can wave a finger at and say, "see, we're better than you."

The fact is they're just scared of looking inward at their own weaknesses and this power struggle allows them a comforting distraction from their own shortcomings.

HOORAY!
I like protesting for things that matter!

Soleil, you're talking about brainwashing? The Evangelicals and Fundamentalists do more brainwashing than schools. And also, the Supreme Court simply overturned a law that violated the constitution, so the asshole Prop 8 supporters decided to MAKE it constitutional.