Washington D.C. Moves 1 Step Closer To Legalizing Gay Marriage
Posted by Media Outrage on December 16th, 2009
The D.C. council has introduced a bill to legalize gay marriage.
Via Lgbtqnation:
Washington D.C. is poised to become the next battleground for gay marriage as the D.C. Council moves a step closer to legalizing same-sex unions.
D.C. City Council member David Catania (I-At Large) is expected to introduce a bill to allow same-sex marriages to be performed in the District before month’s end, according to sources familiar with Catania’s plans.
The bill, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post, would amend the law to say “marriage is the legally recognized union of two people” and that “any person who otherwise meets the eligibility requirements … may marry any other eligible person regardless of gender.”
Catania, one of two openly gay members of the D.C. Council, said he had 10 co-sponsors, all but assuring passage, the Post reported Friday.
If it becomes law, the bill would eliminate domestic partnerships, although couples already registered could either keep their partnership or convert it for free to a city-sanctioned marriage, beginning in 2011.
In May, the council approved a bill in recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states, and members of the U.S. Congress from both parties largely steered clear of the issue. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was quoted as saying at the time that the District should be treated like a state.
Same-sex marriage is legal in four states — Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and Vermont. They will be legal in New Hampshire in January. In Maine, the state legislature has approved same-sex marriage, but a referendum will be held on the measure in November.
December 16th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Good.
The rights of the minority SHOULD NEVER BE VOTED ON by the majority.
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Nina Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 8:47 am
You’re idiot. That what democracy is.
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Nina Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 8:48 am
That’s you’re an idiot.
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December 16th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Also, I love the pic you chose to accompany the article MO.
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December 16th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
This is wrong on so many levels. I won’t say anything else to keep from offending anyone.
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Ms. E Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I agree!! Dam..my hometown has the worst HIV rate now THIS!!
I’m not saying anything else! SMH!
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December 16th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Wow. I just wrote a paper on this.
We had a big debate in my class about gay marriage and it was a mess. This guy even had the audacity to say that gay is the new black???? A white guy that has no idea how it feels to be black (past and present) in America.
Anyway, I’m with MS. E and YISI, people get offended with this.
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Ms. E Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
@ Kingston – I’ve heard that expression too!! They need to STOP comparing their a$$es to Blacks! I have nothing against the gay/lesbo community but there is NO WAY in hell they can relate to being ripped from their homeland, dragged in chains to a foreign land, whipped, beaten, castrasted, raped, and torn from their families to become second class citizens in a country that you helped build and establish!! SMH!! Let me stop before I get a debate started on her!!!
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Kingston Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Couldn’t agree with you more. When he said that, everybody looked at him like “I know he just didn’t say that”. LMAO. Everything went crazy after that.
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December 16th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
This is great! Its a shame these ppl gotta travel to the few states that legalize it to get married! It should b legal in EVERY state! Go head yal wit yal gay assess!! Lol
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December 16th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
IMO I don’t agree with it… but that’s just me.
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December 16th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
I hope it goes through. Marriage is already a mess with the heterosexual population (hello- 48% divorce rate!), if gay people are in love and want to give it a try, why not? There’s far worse going on in the world, we should be trying to ban arranged marriages of 8 year old girls before tryig to ban consenting adults who love one another.
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Smurfette Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Rite on girl!
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wpsegura Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
I agree with you why not let everyone suffer
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December 16th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
I was gonna say good for them until I read that some White gay guy is walking around saying, “Gay is the new Black.”
What the hell?!! Are they serious!!
I’d never heard that and to me it’s disrespectful! Like Ms. E said their asses will NEVER know what it was like to have been our ancestors years ago or us even NOW!
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Unkle Death - Smoke That Good Green Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
They never can and never will. I for one would give a dookie diver a Cuban necktie and fill the wound with salty lemon juice if he EVER said that to my face.
God.
Why am I so VIOLENT?!?!?!
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brynnrock Reply:
December 18th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Can I get some of that good green?
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December 16th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
@MissTX, Girl that was my reaction too when that fool made that statement. That’s when everything went downhill in that debate room. I think he was really trying to get us (meaning myself and the other black students) to sympathize with gays. I don’t have a problem with gay people at all, but that boy wished he would have never said that because we really let him have it that day. I told him straight up,don’t ever compare racism with sexual preference. Keep that shit separate.
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MissTX85 Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Exactly Kingston.
That’s why I feel it’s disrespectful if more of them are going around saying that. I have no problem with the gay community either but when they start saying ignorant shit like that or trying to keep heteros from speaking their minds or doing things, that’s when they become a problem with me.
They should do them as gay people and let us do us as heteros. Plain and simple.
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Nina Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 8:44 am
strong j to that.
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December 17th, 2009 at 3:31 am
whatever makes them happy …..
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December 17th, 2009 at 3:34 am
the bill won’t pass, the need to find another word other than marriage, perhaps a “union”. Marriage should be reserve for man and woman. Union should for the rest ( not trying to be offensive here). But the union( gay) should get the same benefit as a marriage( str8)..again not tryin to be offensive
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December 17th, 2009 at 4:30 am
People are entitled to their own opinions and so am I, so without futher due…..
ALL YOU MOTHER & FATHER FUCKERS THAT OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE CAN EAT A DICK!. wtf is wrong with you people? Homosexuals have civil rights too, just like blacks, & asians, & jews, & arabs, & latins in the fucked up ‘free’ country. ANYONE should be allowed to marry whomever they damn well please. This is a hate crime. It has nothing to do with the Bible or the constitution but with homophobics personal dislike of gays.
& for Ms. E to place HIV & gays together is so stereotypical. #killyoself & to the rest of you #hoehaveaseat!
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Smurfette Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 5:05 am
Im wit u on this post! I think if I wanna marry a woman I should be allowed to. Its fucked up that its illegal for me to marry a woman, but I can marry any dude I want. Even if he a deadbeat, aint shit, woman beater, jobless, homeless, drug dealing, and an all around dog! Crazy right! But this is America, what u expect………
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Ms. E Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Merry Christmas to you too Jodibanks…SMH!
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Ms. E Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
@ Jodibanks – I DID NOT PLACE GAYS AND HIV TOGETHER..GO BACK AND READ!
I SIMPLY NAMED ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT MY CITY (DC) IS FACING:
1) HIGH HIV RATE (AMONG OTHER THINGS)AND OUR MAYOR FIRING GOOD TEACHERS…ETC, ETC.
I WAS NOT IMPLYING THAT GAYS HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE HIV RATE, I WAS SIMPLY STATING THAT DC DON’T NEED NO MORE DAM PROBLEMS!
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December 17th, 2009 at 8:38 am
There aint no way in hell that blacks are voting for ‘gay’ marriage. This is the work of(closeted gay)politicians and Obama.
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December 17th, 2009 at 8:43 am
@ Jodibanks – you see why people don’t like gays?!?! You muthafuckas are too damn hostile. Playing sword fights and banging patties is gross. And a hate crime…what about people who just feel like it’s their morale belief to go against this lifestyle?!?! And you say they have committed a hate crime?!?!? You are insane. And the black civil rights have nothing to do with gays. Black is not a choice or a sin or unnatural.
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2020VIZN Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I was just getting ready to say, wow this thread has been pretty civil because it normaly turns into a knockdown dragout, then bam there it was, I spoke too motherfuckin soon. That was a pretty hostile reaction especially when no one even went on the attack on this thread, just opinions being expressed. But I’m gonna stay out of this one because I could break this shit down from a religious standpoint, but once again Im gonna steer clear of this one, because if I start on it now my grits will probably burn up.
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Media Outrage Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Lol Break it down 2020… don’t hold back
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2020VIZN Reply:
December 18th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
MO I promise to break it down the next time it comes up on a thread. This one is on life support and if I break it down I want it to be early so I can see the bevy of posters say, FUCK YOU 2020 you dont know shit. LOL
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Unkle Death - Smoke That Good Green Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Thank you. Say it again. Civil rights compared to same sex unions? Ha. NOWHERE NEAR EACH OTHER!
I personally could care less what a bunch of sperm burpers do as long as they’re not trying to hit on me, if a gay dude tried some shit like that I’d politely tell them that I don’t swing that way–just so I don’t have to swing on them LOL. But seriously, I acknowledge gay unions as a potential undoing of mankind because two of the same gender cannot produce a child which is a part of the preservation of man’s time on Earth. What say you to this Nina?
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Unkle Death - Smoke That Good Green Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Would you agree with this statement?
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Ms. E Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I agree with you Unkle Death! I have a few cousins that are gay and as much as I love them and respect them I always debate with them about this! They get mad cuss my a$$ out and don’t speak to me for six months..BUT THE TRUTH HURTS!!
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Unkle Death - Smoke That Good Green Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Yes it does. In time they will realize that a true friend stabs you in the front….or they will continue to bury pickles and bite pillows LOL!
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Ms. E Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
But it sucks cause I will not see them for christmas..they refuse to show up at any family gatherings!! Its sad
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Yeah I Said It Reply:
December 18th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
I personal don’t give a rats ass who fucks who as long as they don’t stand in my damn face and call it marriage. How the hell can this be a hate crime????? Now i said I don[‘t want to offend anyone,however I can say it again this shit is wrong on so many levels. There will never be a way i accept as part of the norm,mem married to men and women married to women as long as there are dicks around and str8,I will rock with that……..Jodiebanks suck your own dick then shove it up your asshole butt fucker.
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December 17th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
@2020, you are wrong. Jodi’s remarks were indeed hostile too. Read again. Anyway, this is a very touchy subject that some are not comfortable with. It’s a subject that will come up, but I say don’t ram it down our throats. (no pun intended) I just say respect each other that’s all. I said my peace.
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2020VIZN Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Im sorry Cricket that you didnt understand my post. It might have been the way that I worded it but, I was trying to say that Jodi’s rant ws hostile. I was trying to say that the thread was civil until Jodi made the hostil rant. I made my response on Ninas post because I was agreeing with what she said about the rant. Go back to my post and read it carefully, I was indeed saying that Jodi’s post was real hostile.
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December 17th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
This is a very touchy subject that I really don’t care to get into! I personally don’t have a problem with anyone’s sexual preference…entirely your business!!
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December 18th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
CAN I GET SOME OF THAT GOOD GREEN? IT BROWN LIKE A MF OVER HERE!
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