It's Good Friday....Well, Gay Good Friday...Well, Gay Marriage Good Friday

Today is an historic day for the nations, it's capital, and the LGBT community.

Mayor Adrian Fenty [aka Hottie McHot, or Call Me!] is expected to sign a bill that will grant marriage equality in the District of Columbia. And, in a bit of irony, and don't we love irony, Fenty will sign the legislation at the All Souls Unitarian Church in Northwest. This bill not only allows same-sex marriage in Washington DC, but it requires DC to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 10:45 AM, this morning, and gay couples could start marrying in Washington DC as early as March!

Still, as always, there are opponents to the bill, and Congress, which has final say over Washington's laws, has thirty days to reject the bill if they so choose. But Democratic Congressional leaders have suggested they are reluctant to do so.

So, congratulations DC City Council, for seeing through all the rhetoric and realizing that marriage equality is the future of this country. You've taken a bold step, and make all the haters and naysayers soon understand that this is how it will be in America.

Soon.

Soon.

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.

News From The Front

Washington D.C. mayor, Adrian Fenty, signed the bill to allow the District of Columbia to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions.

Coming just one day after City Council members voted 12-1 to back the bill, the mayor's signature clears the way for the measure to go to Capitol Hill, where Congress will begin a 30-day legislative review of the measure as required under the D.C. City Charter.

Fenty signed the bill after a group of black ministers vowed to work for the defeat of each of the 12 City Council members who voted for the measure during Tuesday's Council session.

Now, I wonder, as I often do, how these black ministers might have felt if, say, oh I don't know, forty-some-odd years ago, I'd come out and vowed to remove from office any elected official who voted for, or approved of, interracial marriage.

Because there is no difference.

Rights is rights.

Freedoms is freedoms.

Y'all

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Senator Tom Harkin from Iowa. the great state of Iowa, now says he's changed his views on gay marriage and would oppose any effort to overturn an Iowa Supreme Court decision last month that legalized same-sex unions.

Speaking on the public television program "Iowa Press" last week, Harkin said that if a constitutional amendment were put to voters to ban gay marriage, he would vote no.

Some Repugnants have promised to make gay marriage a key issue in the 2010 election, but Harkin says other concerns will matter more to voters, such as the economy and health care.

It's the same old game plan, for some of the Repugs. Strike fear into the hearts of people over one galvanizing issue rather than discuss what's really going on; work for discrimination and against making this country all that it was intended to be.

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Governor John Baldacci said the past week will be remembered for the action Maine took to "break down inequality" by enacting legislation to recognize same-sex marriages. In his weekly radio address, Baldacci said he was fulfilling his constitutional duty in signing the bill, citing the Maine Constitution, which states that "no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor be denied the equal protection of the laws, nor be denied the enjoyment of that person's civil rights or be discriminated against."

Baldacci again reiterated that the new law does not force any religion to recognize a marriage that falls outside its beliefs, although he acknowledged that the issue may be far from settled because a people's veto campaign has been set in motion.

Listen to him people of Maine, and people from everywhere.

This is what common sense sounds like.

Well Put Mayor Fenty

''I think you can certainly anticipate that [gay marriage] is in the future of the District of Columbia. How soon, we don't know. But this is a huge step forward in being -- having a law that recognizes marriages from other jurisdictions. And I do believe that nationally there's movement on this issue. Just in the past six to 12 months -- you just announced Maine being the latest state to grant same-sex marriages.

I think, just as marriage used to prohibit people from different races from being able to marry each other in this country, and that was done away with; I think prohibiting same-sex marriage will be done away with also in this country." Washington DC Mayor Adrian Fenty predicting marriage equality for his city.