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Article: How Not to Get Married: On Credit
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- The Stranger
- Article date:
- June 26, 2008
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WASHINGTON STATE SUPREME Court justice Barbara Madsen owes me a few thousand dollars.
If it weren't for her - and the four other justices who opted to uphold a ban on same-sex marriage in Washington State two years ago - we wouldn't have put $6,195.17 in wedding expenses onto our Visa, a bill we've been chipping away at for more than a year.
Let me back up a bit. In July 2006, my girlfriend, Sonia, and I had already moved to Portland, but we were still eagerly awaiting a decision in Washington's Anderson v. Sims case, the one challenging the state's same-sex marriage ban.
Ever since Sonia and I had played a minor role in sparking the case back in 2004 - that's a long story involving my ...