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Wash. voters get final say on gay partnerships

November 1, 2009 By The Associated Press RACHEL LA CORTE (Associated Press Writer)

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state's slow-but-steady approach to increasing rights and benefits to gay and lesbian couples hit its first snag just as the three-year process appeared to be complete.

After lawmakers passed the state's first domestic partnership bill in 2007, and then expanded it a year later, they completed the package with the so-called "everything but marriage" bill that...

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