Paul Thomasson just wants to marry his partner of 17 years in his home state. 

To do that, though, he might need to change a few hearts. Lucky for him, the email addresses of the folks who "need to hear his story most" have been made available. After a long and controversial fight, a roster of signatures attached to Washington's 2009 attempt to roll back LGBT rights, R71, has been made public. As the state braces for another anti-gay referendum that seeks to repeal its just adopted marriage equality laws, Thomasson has decided to appeal directly to the citizen homophobes in a controversial email campaign.

They took the fight to keep their names shielded from the public, but today those who signed the anti-gay Referendum 71 in Washington State learned from the Supreme Court that the Constitution does not allow homophobes to keep their attempts to steal human rights away from GLBT Americans secret. Today the nation's highest bench has ruled that the signatures on R71 has every Constitutional right in the American democracy to be made public.

Reports the AP on the precedent-setting decision:

Petition signers wanted to hide their names because of worries of intimidation. But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco refused to keep their names secret. The Supreme Court stepped in and temporarily blocked release of the names until...