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Washington’s Attorney General Candidate: Marriage Equality Could Lead To Polygamy | A Republican candidate for Attorney General in Washington has filed a petition with the state secretary of state’s office pushing back against Gov. Chris Gregoire’s (D) efforts to legalize same-sex mariage. Stephen Pidgeon, who has previously challenged the state’s domestic partnership law, “seeks to change the current state statute, which says that marriage is a civil contract between a male and a female. Pidgeon wants it to be changed to ‘between one man and one woman.” As he explained in an interview with a local news station, “one man and one woman because ‘a’ it becomes a very relative term. So ‘a man’ and ‘a woman’ means a man and several women.” Watch it:

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