One Washington state anti-equality measure fails

One Washington state voter-initiative to ban equal marriage has failed to gain enough support.

Backers of Initiative 1192, which sought to restrict marriage to heterosexual couples, said they had fallen “woefully short” of the number of signatures needed to get their measure on the ballot.

However, a competing measure, Referendum 74, has already won enough support to appear on the November ballot, meaning Washington voters will decide whether gay couples should have the right to marry.

The campaign group behind Initiative 1192, Protect Marriage Washington, said they were around 140,000 signatures short of the 240,000 needed to get on the ballot.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/07/04/one-washington-state-anti-equality-measure-fails/

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