Yesterday, the Washington D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics blocked a referendum that would have put the District Council's recent decision to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere in front of voters:
"Unless a court intervenes, same-sex couples who marry in other states or countries will be considered legally married in the District as well in less than a month. And by the end of the year, the D.C. Council is expected to approve a bill to allow same-sex couples to be married in the city. The opinion states that city officials would "authorize discrimination" if they were to permit a referendum on whether to afford same-sex couples married elsewhere the same rights as opposite-sex couples. The two-member board cited District elections law, which prohibits a vote on a matter covered by the Human Rights Act. The 1977 act outlaws discrimination against gays and lesbians and other minority groups."
Good to see some elected officials have balls, esp when so many other so-called "allies" seem to have misplaced theirs...
ReplyDeleteCould they send this decision to the Department of Justice?
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the Board of Elections for seeing this as a civil rights thing, not anything other than that.
Yea! I could become a married man. I just wonder if I'll be asked :)
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