{"id":6593,"date":"2012-03-22T15:33:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2012-03-22T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:37:23","slug":"business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2012\/03\/22\/business\/","title":{"rendered":"Business playing key role in drive for gay marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2012\/03\/22\/politics\/business-playing-key-role-in-drive-for-gay-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6596\" title=\"Business playing key role in drive for gay marriage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/120322_gm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Gay marriage wouldn\u2019t have passed in the Washington state Legislature  this year without Gov. Chris Gregoire\u2019s decision to reverse course and  push for it. Legislators\u2019 personal pleas to colleagues, as epitomized by  Republican Rep. Maureen Walsh\u2019s passionate floor speech about her  desire to throw her daughter a wedding someday, also played a major  role. The speech went viral on YouTube. But according to the bill\u2019s sponsor, Democratic state Sen. Ed Murray,  there was nothing more crucial to the legalization of gay marriage than  support from high-profile businesses such as Nike Inc. and Microsoft  Corp. \u201cIt\u2019s how we got moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats  to vote for this,\u201d he said. Murray and others first harnessed support from the business community  for gay rights in 2006 by using an economic development argument to  pass an anti-discrimination bill that had been in the works for 29  years. Support from Boeing Co. and Microsoft helped turn key votes. Since that time, gay rights activists have built aggressively from  their original base of industry support. Some gay rights groups have  hired lobbyists whose sole focus is reaching out to business leaders. Image: irishcentral.com. <a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2012\/03\/22\/politics\/business-playing-key-role-in-drive-for-gay-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global |  Company: Nike, Microsoft, Boeing Co., Alcoa, Goldman Sachs, Starbucks, Google | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2012\/03\/22\/politics\/business-playing-key-role-in-drive-for-gay-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bangor Daily News<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay marriage wouldn\u2019t have passed in the Washington state Legislature this year without Gov. Chris Gregoire\u2019s decision to reverse course and push for it. Legislators\u2019 personal pleas to colleagues, as epitomized by Republican Rep. Maureen Walsh\u2019s passionate floor speech about her desire to throw her daughter a wedding someday, also played a major role. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,163,166,178,22,65,41],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alcoa","tag-boeing","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-nike","tag-starbucks","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6593"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}