Here's the question voters will face on their ballots this fall:

"Referendum 17
The legislature passed Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5688 concerning rights and responsibilities of state-registered domestic partners and voters have filed a sufficient referendum petition on this bill.

This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations accorded state-registered same-sex and senior domestic partners to be equivalent to those of married spouses, except that a domestic partnership is not a marriage.

Should this bill be:
[ ] Approved
[ ] Rejected"

The legislature passed this law and Governor Gregoire signed it into law, but opponents gathered enough signatures to place the question on the ballot. Opponents object to making domestic partnerships equivalent under the law to marriages. Proponents argue that there are critical rights that domestic partnerships lack, like the the right to visit a partner in the hospital, that this law would add. Tell us what you think. Do you approve or do you reject Referendum 71?