WA: Same-sex marriages swell tally of nuptials

Mueller and Pulliam were among 156 same-sex couples who married in Clark County in the first month it was legal, from Dec. 9 to Jan. 9, according to the county's Marriage License Department. That accounted for 66 percent of all marriages in the county during the month, said Paul Harris, the department's manager....

Columbian • Jan 15, 2013

Backers of gay marriage watch, wait

Washington United for Marriage, which is seeking to affirm the state's same-sex marriage law through approval of Referendum 74, has nearly $6 million in a campaign war chest -- more than half of it from a few prominent local donors with deep pockets. Its opponent, meanwhile, Preserve Marriage Washington, has so far raised $438,000, about 10 percent of its campaign goal of $4 million. Mostly in in...

Columbian • Aug 22, 2012

WA: Majority in state back gay marriage

Support for marriage equality was strongest in the Puget Sound area, where 63 percent of respondents in favor. In the rest of Western Washington, about 53 percent support same-sex marriage. About 43 percent of respondents supported it in Eastern Washington. ...

Columbian • Jan 10, 2012

Washington: Moeller to co-sponsor gay-marriage bill

State Rep. Jim Moeller announced Thursday he'll join dozens of other legislators next week in introducing a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the 2012 Legislature....

Columbian • Nov 11, 2011