Same-sex rights at issue in pamphletOLYMPIA -- In a voter guide put out by

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OLYMPIA -- In a voter guide put out by a Christian group, City Council candidate Ira Knight is listed as opposed to the city giving benefits to same-sex partners and requiring the same of its contractors.

The statement calls into question whether Knight, running for seat 5, would try to repeal a 10-year-old city ordinance that gives benefits to same-sex partners of city employees and a second ordinance passed last year requiring that contractors provide benefits to domestic partners if they give them to married spouses.

Knight, a 63-year-old retired military veteran, declined to comment Saturday on whether he wants to repeal those laws.

"I do not condone discrimination in any way, shape or form," he said. But he did not answer questions about the positions stated in the Christian Coalition of Washington's guide.

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