decided before the district court. Washington State's Office on Monday began making public the names of 137,500 people who signed Referendum 71 petitions two years ago to bring a domestic-partnership law to a public vote. Advertisements in popular culture Satirist Stephen Colbert made light of one advertisement created by Protect Marriage Washington on The Colbert Report's October 26, 2009, show. The ad asserts that in May 2004, gay marriage was legalized in Scandinavia and coincided with a suicide rate doubling and an illegal drug use increasing nineteen-fold. Colbert went on to say the ad was "terrifying," adding, "and that ad is no less terrifying just because there is no country called Scandinavia, none of the countries in Scandinavia passed gay marriage laws in 2004, and the statistics on suicide and drug use are made up." See also Domestic partnership in Washington State Same-sex marriage in Washington State Washington Referendum 74 Maine Question 1, 2012 External links WAFST Approve Referendum 71 Campaign Washington Values Alliance: Protect Marriage WA References Washington (state) law 2009 Washington (state) ballot measures LGBT in Washington (state) Same-sex union legislation in the United States 2009 in Washington (state) 2009 in LGBT history