DC Gets It Right

It was celebration day in DC yesterday, as the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009, which extends marriage equality [yup, equality] to all people in the District of Columbia, passed the city council by a margin of 11-2.

Openly gay Councilmember Jim Graham: "Today we take the rightful position ... in taking the next step in terms of declaring marriage equality in this city."

One of the two No votes came from crackhead convict, and former mayor, Marion Barry, who denounced marriage equality for LGBT people and said the civil right of marriage is "the most sacred act in the Christian religion, a covenant between two individuals and their God ... and the state."

Love that. Of their God and the state.

Of course, that bastion of morality, the Catholic Church, which is against gay marriage, but not so much against the pedophiles in their own midst, threatens to withdraw its support for charitable programs run by the city if it is required to observe the new law. How. Charitable.

Nonetheless, Mayor Adrian Fenty, also known on this blog as Mayor Hottie McHot, is expected to sign the bill, though before that happens Congress will have 30 working days to review the measure. They are not, however, expected to interfere with the passage of the new law.

Way to go DC.

Way to go City Council.

Way to go Mayor Fenty.