Equal Rights Washington News and Updates

. . . before the court ruling, it seemed adequate -- even to some influential figures in the gay community -- that all the candidates were supportive of gay marriage. Pedersen's decade-long work with Lambda Legal on the national effort to legalize same-sex marriage came off as a distinction comparable to his Yale education.
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"If we had won in the courts ... there would not be a major gay or lesbian issue in front of the Legislature," Murray said at the time. "But that negative decision has created a political earthquake in the gay and lesbian community."

Pedersen said he always believed -- no matter how the Supreme Court ruled -- that the issue would take further work by the Legislature, and he wanted to be a part of that effort.

"Ours is a two-mom household."

"To our children, we are Mommy and Mom."

These conversations between parents and educators are becoming increasingly common as the children of gay and lesbian parents show up in larger numbers in the school system.