California Secretary of State candidate to hold press conference at Seattle Leadership Conference in support of Gay Rights.

Posted on November 12, 2005

SEATTLE - Forrest Hill, Green Party activist and first gay candidate for California Secretary of State, will hold a press conference to denounce an initiative slated for the 2006 ballot that would ban gay marriage and would strip domestic partners of most benefits. Note new location.

The conference will take place on THURSDAY, November 17, 2005 at 1:00 PM in the conference room at Uptown Espresso Inc, 500 Westlake Avenue North, Seattle, WA.

Hill, who will be in town to attend the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Conference, is committed to protecting the rights of same sex couples and plans a campaign against the anti-gay initiative sponsored by "The Campaign for Children and Families."

"The CCF rationalizes their motives based on religious beliefs," said Hill. "Those who use the bible to justify discrimination against gays are cut from the same mold as those who used the bible to justify slavery in this country for hundreds of years."

Hill will also discuss the dire need for election reform and the need to end corporate funding of elections.

"Most democracies in the world provide public financing of elections, free access to the media, and enforce spending limits on campaign,” said Hill. “They realize that political equality requires building barriers between money and the ballot box."

"We must also move towards more proportional systems of voting to ensure full representation of all citizens, like the vast majority of developed nations in the world," Hill added.

For more information:
Green Party of Seattle
info@seattlegreens.org
206-245-0871

For a biography of Forrest Hill and a list of his campaign issues, click here

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California Secretary of State candidate to hold press conference at Seattle Leadership Conference in support of Gay Rights.