New York's highest court in Hernandez v. Robles, which was decided on July 6, 2006. The four justices that dissented accused the majority of relying upon "circular reasoning" in formulating their opinion. In the principal dissenting opinion, signed by Justices Tom Chambers, Susan Owens, and Bobbe J. Bridge, Justice Mary Fairhurst asked: "Would giving same-sex couples the same right that opposite-sex couples enjoy injure the state's interest in procreation and healthy child rearing?" Justice Tom Chambers issued a separate dissenting opinion signed by Justice Susan Owens, while Justice Bobbe J. Bridge issued another dissenting opinion. Aftermath Same-sex marriage supporters disagreed with the procreation argument and proposed Initiative 957 to challenge the court's assertion. It would have required that all marriages recognized by the state to produce offspring within three years of their solemnization. The initiative was created by the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance, an LGBT rights group. The Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance hoped to use this to create a test case in order to have a court strike down the measure and highlight what they perceived as the weakness of the Andersen decision's logic. The initiative was filed on January 10, 2007, and withdrawn on July 3, 2007, after sponsors collected about 40,000 signatures, which was too few to qualify the measure for the November ballot. A bill to legalize same-sex marriage passed the legislature and was signed by Governor Christine Gregoire on February 13, 2012, but opponents gathered enough signatures to force a voter referendum on the legislation. Voters approved the proposed legislation in November 2012, making same-sex marriage legal as of December 6 of that year. See also Domestic partnership in Washington (state) Same-sex marriage in Washington (state) LGBT rights in Washington (state) References External links Text of the 2004 King County ruling (PDF) Text of the 2006 Washington Supreme Court lead ruling (PDF) Links to PDF articles on all 6 Washington Supreme Court opinions issued in Andersen v. King County. Washington (state) state case law 2006 in United States case law LGBT in Washington (state) 2006 in Washington (state) United States same-sex union case law History of King County, Washington 2006 in LGBT history