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Bisceglia
He is obviously a disturbed person who should probably be locked up for the saftey of himself and others. He is suicidal and claims "severe PTSD" and he blames all of his problems on people who oppose gay marriage (because his former partner, he believes, screwed him over in a way a married spouse would not have been able to).

Never mind the illogic of his view (he could have gotten a non-marriage contract with his partner; blaming people other than his partner is incorrect and unproductive), he is clearly unstable and threatening violence against the people he believe made him that way, and he should probably be committed.

I am a bit surprised the gay marriage proponents aren't trying to get him this help, and instead are basically ignoring him and hoping he'll go away.

Regardless, we can't let an unstable nut who should be locked up take away the right of the PUBLIC to have access to public records. A temporary restraint while he is tracked down is one thing, but the public has a right to not only know who stood up and put this on the ballot, but also to examine the records themselves for anything fishy.

Larry Stickney is a good friend of mine, and I would sacrifice myself to keep him safe. But we can't allow fear -- even when that fear is based on reality -- to close down our society. Instead, we should take strong action against Bisceglia and other people who are making threats. Lock 'em up, and do it immediately upon verification that the individual in question actually made the threat.
pudge | Aug 12, 2009 8:55 am | 0 replies | Post reply | Request removal
Vote APPROVED on Ref. 71
Not to minimize what's happening here, but just please don't let this drama distract anyone from the most important matter at hand: preserving the new domestic partnership law. Be prepared to vote APPROVED in November. Sign up with Washington Families Standing Together at http://approvereferendum71.org to help get the word out to others that Referendum 71 voters will be asked to approve or reject the domestic partnership law.

REFERENDUM 71 Ballot Title
Statement of Subject: The legislature passed Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5688 concerning rights and responsibilities of state-registered domestic partners [and voters have filed a sufficient referendum petition on this bill].

Concise Description: This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations accorded state-registered same-sex and senior domestic partners to be equivalent to those of married spouses, except that a domestic partnership is not a marriage.

Should this bill be:

Approved ___
Rejected ___
Lurleen Blogovitch | Aug 11, 2009 5:16 pm | 0 replies | Post reply | Request removal
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Why does common sense have to be legislated.
I believe most hospitals and doctors with ordinary compassion will allow the intimate partner, regardless of gender, to see a medically challenged patient in need of comfort, or who may be dying. Without a law. I would hope so anyway.

I can't see why insurance providers aren't jumping on making more bucks by allowing domestic partners to be dependents of any insured, regardless of gender.

And I have trouble seeing why individually we care about sexual orientation issues.

How can we spend so much money making laws and fighting laws regarding sexual orientation, when individually we could just mind our own business, not enforce our personal morality on anyone else, and go about living a compassionate, non judgemental and non discrimantory life according to our personal and individuals beliefs and principals.

I don't feel anyone's marriage, health insurance status, who they visit in the hospital, and blah blah takes anything away from me, and I don't feel the need to tell anyone else what I believe is sinful or not, and I just can't see the expense, energy and mean crap we go through as a society on something that is personal.

Let God decide on judgement day, or whatever and whoever and whereever, that stuff is all to be.
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