Withers: DC Council votes for gay marriage

In a 11-2 vote, the City Council of Washington, DC voted for gay marriage.

We are a bit short-handed today, so expect more about this later . Until then have a sip of the bubbly and congrats to the District.

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UTAH GOP Rep wants to kill gay marriaeg in DC

Update: Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) rejected Chaffetz’s blustering. “For this to be overturned, it’d have to pass both houses and be signed by the president, and that’s highly unlikely,” he said.

Yesterday, the DC Council overwhelmingly approved a bill recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states, by a vote of 12 to 1. It is the latest victory for LGBT rights, coming just days after the state legislatures in New Hampshire and Maine approved gay marriage, after Vermont became the fourth state to make gay marriage legal last month.

Marriage equality in the nation’s capitol, however, is too much for freshman Rep. John Chaffetz (R-UT, above), who is refusing to let the issue “go softly into the night“:
“Some things are worth fighting for, and this is one of them,” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (Utah), the ranking Republican on a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee that oversees the District. “It’s not something I can let go softly into the night. … I recognize the Democrats are in the majority, but I represent the majority of Americans on this issue.”
The City Desk noted Chaffetz’s Twitter explanation for why he would use Congress to intervene: “Why am I involved? Congress is set up to oversee the affairs of D.C. I am one of the Members of the relevant committee.”
Chaffetz’s disrespect for the District’s citizens by no means a new development. Opposing a bill to give DC residents a voting member in the House, Chaffetz insisted “the best” proposal was simply to give the city to Maryland:
The best alternative is retrocession of residential areas of D.C. back to Maryland, as was done with Arlington, Va. Under this option, D.C. residents would receive not only a vote in the House and two in the Senate, but a state legislature, a governor and many other benefits.
In March, Chaffetz railed, “Keep government limited, keep it out of our way, and empower the American people.” Apparently, he meant to add, “so long as they’re not gay.”

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DC Council OKs gay marriage bill

(Washington) The Washington, D.C., Council on Tuesday gave final approval to legislation that recognizes same-sex marriages performed in areas where they are legal.

During an emotional debate on the bill, David Catania, one of two openly gay council members, called the issue one of fundamental fairness.

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Vanasco: DC votes to recognize gay marriages in other states

The Washington Post is reporting that the DC Council voted 13-0 to recognize gay marriages perfomed in other states.

But council member and former mayor Marion Barry has asked for a re-vote – telling them he didn’t realize what he was voting on.

If Congress doesn’t intervene, the DC Council may take …

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DC Bishop Harry Jackson: All of black DC is against gay marriage Metro Weekly

”It’s a race and a class struggle on this. If 51 percent of the people in D.C. are African-American and you have a unanimous vote by the city council on this, somebody’s not listening to the people…. The black ministers are irate that they are being shut out. They feel like nobody’s listening to them.”

Harry Jackson, a African-American evangelical church leader from Bowie, Maryland who is doing his best to ride his anti-gay marriage agenda to national fame and significance among social conservatives. He has repeated alleged that the interests of the black community and gay community are incompatible on the basis of his religious beliefs; defining the civil rights movement as belonging only to black Americans; and spreading misinformation that somehow that the entire gay rights movement is elitist and racist. His arguments, of course, do not allow for the existence of proud, gay African-Americans or that there are even voting members of the DC council who also happen to be black. Jackson has scheduled a protest for Tuesday, 10am, at Freedom Plaza against same-sex marriage recognition being adopted in any form by the DC City Council. (Washington Post)

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Bishop Harry Jackson: All of black DC is against gay marriage

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DC to recognize gay marriages

(Washington) Congressional Republicans are vowing they will do all they can to block the District of Columbia from recognizing same-sex marriages that have been performed in areas where they are legal.

In a preliminary vote, the  DC Council unanimously approved the bill.  It needs to pass a final time next month …

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