Lurleen's answer to the false statements regarding Washington State's SSB 5688

Yesterday one of the Blenders at Pam's House Blend posted this diary directly answering the distortions of those who seek to deny Domestic Partnerships to couples in that state. I felt it wonderfully shows how they twist their facts and outright lie to continue the discrimination against LGBTQ:
Let us Examine the Lies and Distortions, One by One
by: Lurleen
Wed Mar 25, 2009 On Pam's House Blend
On Monday, March 23rd, the Washington State House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on SSB 5688, the Domestic Partnership Expansion Bill of 2009.

Not surprisingly, delegates from The Washington Hate Coalition repeated their same tired lies and distortions. As I listened to their testimony, I decided that we need to produce a sheet of concise responses to these lies, because we all know that they will keep repeating them until people accept them as the unquestioned truth. Below is my transcript of the testimony of the two main Hate Coalition members to testify. I have numbered their statements to facilitate our responses. My responses are embedded within the transcript and are in green typeface. I look forward to your comments.

1.Um, of course same-sex couples are not the only deviation from marriage as we have always defined it in this state, and I have yet to hear articulated any reason why any other relationship involving loving consenting adults, ah relationships that are not currently recognized by the State of Washington should be excluded if we uh begin to extend marriage-like benefits in every respect. Um as I'm sure most of you are aware, ah relationships involving close relatives, ah people who are already married and minors are also not recognized by the state of Washington.

This is the old "slippery slope" argument. To the extent there is a slippery slope, it was created by heterosexuals when they decided to reserve special legal rights for only their families in a country whose Constitution guarantees equal protection of the laws and due process.

For the rest of the story, Click Here: Pam's House Blend

As suggested on The Blend, if you do something similar that is targeted at legislators in your state, make a nice print-out and mail it to them.