Mayor To Sign DC Marriage Equality Bill Today. (18/12/09 - UK date)
District of Columbia's Mayor, Adrian M. Fenty will sign the marriage equality bill into law.
A signing ceremony is set for 10:345 a.m. at All Souls Church, at 16th Street and Columbia Road NW…. The bill will then be transmitted to Congress for 30 legislative days of review—a period expected to expire sometime in March. (via City Desk – Washington City Paper.)
Was it a deliberate act of sticking two fingers up at the church by holding the signing at a church?
Earlier this week, Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who sits on the House subcommittee that oversees the district, renewed his pledge prevent that bill from becoming law, even though he acknowledges overturning it will be nearly impossible in the Democratically controlled House of Representatives.
“It’s going to be exceptionally difficult because Democrats have us outnumbered by large amounts,” Chaffetz said Tuesday. “Nevertheless, we’re going to try.”
Lets hope it is and the UTAH STATE religion, and its agents keep out of it.
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If more Mormons knew their own history they would be too ashamed to interfere like this. They may be fond of quoting that "the glory of God is intelligence" but the lies and ignorance that keep this giant hoax afloat are of breathtaking proportions :mad:
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I do agree marshlander, they push their religion without knowing all its background, and thanks for the kind words rychard, but if we can"t all stand together we must surly fall apart, Jim
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Washington D.C., Dec 19, 2009 / 06:57 am (CNA) - Extracts from an aritcle from the CNA website.
Fenty signed the measure at the Unitarian Universalist All Souls Church in the northwest part of the District.
In his remarks at the signing, provided to CNA in an e-mail from the mayor’s office, Fenty said:
“Marriage inequality is a civil rights, political, social, moral, and religious issue in this country and many nations. And as I sign this act into law, the District from this day forward will set the tone for other jurisdictions to follow in creating an open and inclusive city.”
Rev. Rob Hardies, senior minister at All Souls Church, said in a statement on the church's website that he was “so heartened” by the role his congregation has played in what he called an “important human rights struggle.”
He said congregants took a “leading role” in founding a coalition of about 200 District clergy to support the bill.
The D.C. Council had passed the bill by an 11-2 margin, over the objections of many African American clergy, the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington and others.
Nice to see some clergy supporting the rights for equality in marriage.
Just how many African American clergy and who are the others, the UTAH STATE religion maybe?
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boxerdc Wrote:Marriage equality in the District of Columbia is an empty gesture, unless congress backs it, and makes it the law of the land.
What actually does the District Control in its own right? For example does it control inheritance law?
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fredv3b Wrote:What actually does the District Control in its own right? For example does it control inheritance law?
With the passage of this bill, I'll be able to get a piece of paper that says that I'm married, and I'll be able to file my DC taxes as "married".
Absolutely nothing at all will change other than that. Everything else in the district is Federal, and as long as DOMA still stands, it's an empty gesture.
Fenty is also a homophobe, and he only signed the bill because he received intense pressure from the gay community, basically telling them that they would go all out to make sure that he would not be re-elected next year if he balked at it.
And, strangly, the only place that this particular bit of news has been news is outside of the district.
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boxerdc Wrote:With the passage of this bill, I'll be able to get a piece of paper that says that I'm married, and I'll be able to file my DC taxes as "married".
Absolutely nothing at all will change other than that. Everything else in the district is Federal, and as long as DOMA still stands, it's an empty gesture...
And, strangly, the only place that this particular bit of news has been news is outside of the district. Interesting. Are you suggesting that the news has been buried deliberately in Washington?
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A Bombshell for DOMA – Judge in California Challenges Executive Branch.
“Judge Kozinski’s order comes at an interesting time in the Ninth Circuit. It was matched last week by an order by a fellow judge on the appeals court, who ruled that Brad Levenson, a public defender working for the federal courts, was entitled to back pay to cover costs associated with buying separate insurance policies he purchased for Tony Sears, whom he married under California law before last year’s Prop 8 made gay marriage illegal there. That state constitutional amendment will itself be on trial beginning in January, when a U.S. district judge in San Francisco will hold the first federal jury trial on whether the U.S. Constitution requires that gay couples be given the opportunity to be married. As chief judge of the circuit, Kozinski will then almost certainly hear the Prop 8 case when it goes on appeal.”
A gay lawyer in the federal public defender's office in Los Angeles, denied government health coverage for his husband after their marriage last year, is entitled to extra pay to cover the cost of private insurance, a federal appeals court judge ruled Wednesday.
The federal defender's office refused to add Sears to Levenson's medical, dental and eye care plans, citing the 1996 federal law. Levenson said the denial has cost him $175 to $200 a month to buy private health coverage for Sears.
Judge Reinhardt found the federal law invalid in February and reaffirmed his conclusion Wednesday, rejecting defenses that the Obama administration has offered in court cases.
Maybe we should all become lawyers.
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marshlander Wrote:Interesting. Are you suggesting that the news has been buried deliberately in Washington?
Not at all. Just saying that it's probably prudent to do so in such a highly charged religious environment.
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