{"id":2304,"date":"2004-03-08T15:42:59","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T07:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/08\/seattle-recognizes-gay-marriages\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:45:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:45:52","slug":"seattle-recognizes-gay-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/08\/seattle-recognizes-gay-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle recognizes gay marriages!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11586,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\\\/local\\\/163743_gaycity08.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081202072833\\\/http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com:80\\\/local\\\/163743_gaycity08.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 17:27:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 04:51:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 04:51:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11587,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2004\\\/03\\\/09\\\/national\\\/09SEAT.html?ex=1394168400&amp;en=0d821689c6c36d9b&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Okay, so we&#8217;re not performing the ceremonies yet, but it&#8217;s a start. Mayor Greg Nickles issued an executive order today declaring that <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/163743_gaycity08.html\" title=\"Nickels helps out same-sex marriage\">the City of Seattle will recognize gay marriages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;Seattle has often been in the forefront of protecting all its citizens regardless of sexual orientation,&#8221; Nickels said at a news conference announcing the order. He also proposed an ordinance to extend protections for gay married couples throughout the city.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the same time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/09\/national\/09SEAT.html?ex=1394168400&amp;en=0d821689c6c36d9b&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\" title=\"In Seattle, a Legal Challenge to Marriage Laws\">six couples prepared to file suit<\/a> to force the state to reconsider its discriminatory &#8220;Defense of Marriage Act&#8221; and allow them to marry.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The six couples here applied for and were denied marriage licenses Monday morning in King County, which includes Seattle. Ron Sims, who is the King County executive, a supporter of gay marriage and a candidate for governor, participated in a staged event encouraging the couples to sue him and other county officials. They did so, filing a challenge to Washington&#8217;s 1998 Defense of Marriage Act.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;I have always said I will follow the rule of law,&#8221; Mr.\u00a0Sims said. &#8220;I will not issue licenses, but I thought it was appropriate to have a challenge through the court system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Lisa Stone, executive director of the Northwest Women&#8217;s Law Center, one of the legal groups representing the six couples in the suit, said she thought it was more effective to mount a legal challenge to the state law, rather than encourage city, county or state officials to issue marriage licenses in defiance of the law, only to have them legally challenged later.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Ocean Size&#8221; by Jane&#8217;s Addiction from the album <em>Nothing&#8217;s Shocking<\/em> (1988, 4:19).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so we&#8217;re not performing the ceremonies yet, but it&#8217;s a start. Mayor Greg Nickles issued an executive order today declaring that the City of Seattle will recognize gay marriages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}