LGBT News Washington senators try an Anti-Gay bill

Some people are just so stupid, I swear. There's already discrimination going on, passing a bill like that wouldn't change anything but make it legal. I'm glad it won't.

 

I lol'd.

 

I don't see why they would have to go about it like this if they were. Again, stupidity at best.

What I want to know is how this would work if it did pass seeing as not many people go around screaming their sexualities. It's a waste of time IMO. It's like they're going to require a test before you can shop at the grocery store.

 

I lived on the west for my whole life, and now live on the east side (The baboon's-ass side). I haven't noticed any blatant homophobia in every day life, only in politics.

Thankfully the state is turned blue by the majority of the population and nothing like this will ever pass. Going form approving gay marriage to approving THIS? not likely haha.

 

link please? xD

 

it is the same way with oregon. the state is blue becuase the vast majority of its citizens are in the more urban areas clinging to the i-5 corridor, but if you go past the cascades, you are in redneckapaloza. my dad is from eastern oregon, and his side of the family was republican until reagen when they started all going independent, and most now are democrats; their views have not changed, they were always more progressive, but the republican party just became more racist, and in eastern oregon, racisem is still a problem.

 

Can we just break up Eastern and Western Washington? Maybe combine the Seattle area with the Portland area and make a new state of it? Bleh.


Luckily the US is progressing enough socially that hopefully Spokane will eventually swing toward the blue side on social issues, given ten years or so. Then there's just the < 10% of the population in between the two pop. centers....

 

Might get out of the Senate possibility, but doubtful. I know it will not pass the House

 

If you want to go that route, why not just join the western part to California? My home state could use use the influx of not stupid, and coastal Oregan and Washington would fit in with Northern California culture pretty well.

 

^ Sounds good, let's do it. And while I'm at it let's just go ahead and annex Eastern Montana into North Dakota. Never understood why Billings on eastward counted anyways...

 

Actually the entire West Coast is pretty much divided between mostly liberal urban and coastal areas, and a mostly conservative Republican rural interior. If you divided all three states longitudinally you could have a progressive utopia along the actual Pacific Coast, containing Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and all the land in between... and a right-wing backwater state made up of the eastern interior of WA, OR, CA.

 

The irony of this is that Jesus never said he hated gays. oops

 

my professional opinion is that progressive people love living by the ocean, and conservative hicks prefer living in swamps and palouses.

 

Only if you call it Portlandia.

In a state that just passed Gay mariage, this has a snows balls chance of passing. Stuff like this is just attention whoring on the account of some desperate politicians.

 

^ It does indeed, thus my making fun of this bill by suggesting the unlikely convergence of the more liberalized coastal pacific areas into a new separate state. :lol:

 

people have tried. There is a movement in Eastern Oregon to break away and form the state of Cascadia.

There also was a movement led by a sociologist (or something like that) to break western washington, oregon, and california away, and form its own soverign nation called Ecologia. it was going to be a green-centric nation, and thanks to the fact that the western seaboard is a economic and industrial powerhouse, containing some of america's most successful non-oil based buisnesses, we would surpass the rest of the united states in GDP.

neither proposal has gained steam.