Gregoire Signs Domestic Partnership Bill

Finally, after years of battling with self-righteous, impotent conservatives (I'm talking about you, Tim Eyman), Governor Christine Gregoire has signed the Domestic Partnership measure into law. As reported in the Seattle Times:

The new law creates a domestic partnership registry with the state, and will provide enhanced rights for same-sex couples, including hospital visitation rights, the ability to authorize autopsies and organ donations and inheritance rights when there is no will.

"Today is a beginning, not an end," said Sen. Ed Murray, a Seattle Democrat who sponsored the measure and who is one of five openly gay lawmakers in the state Legislature. "It offers the hope that one day, all lesbian and gay families will be treated truly equal under the law."

Although the news of this measure becoming law is a great story, the best part of the article is the following reaction by conservatives:

Opponents said domestic partnerships are "a step toward gay marriage."

"It sets things in motion," said Cheryl Haskins, executive director of Allies for Marriage & Children.

As if equality under the law were a bad thing! It's a shame that there's a pro-discrimination lobby still in existence.