Gay marriage, partnership battles heat up in the Washingtons

[WillParkinson]

Gay marriage, partnership battles heat up in the Washingtons

Same-sex marriage battles heated up across the country Monday, as voting nears in Washington State and tensions escalated in Washington, D.C., with opponents evoking “Sodom and Gomorrah.”

Rick Rosendall, a spokesperson for the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, was among the first to speak at the hearing in Washington, D.C. He told the D.C. Council that opponents of same-sex marriage “describe marriage equality activists as both a small minority and a Goliath that needs a David to slay us.”

“Bishop Jackson,” a leading opponent of same-sex marriage in D.C., “talks as if gay people just arrived here from another planet,” said Rosendall. “In fact, our roots in this city run deep. We have helped build our communities, and we will defend them from the ministers of fear and intolerance.” That was around the start of the hearing, at 3:30.

Nearly 100 witnesses and more than seven hours later, Ernestine Copeland, an opponent of same-sex marriage, ended the first day of the hearing at 10:58, asking, “Who among you would allow your male dog to lie with a male dog?” She harangued the Council for deciding “to lead my people to hell” by supporting same-sex marriages which “will destroy our society.”

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The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in briefly, voting 8 to 1 on October 20, to uphold a decision that blocks the release of the Referendum 71 petitions until a federal court can hold a trial on the issue. (Justice John Paul Stevens was the lone dissenter.)

The anti-gay group Protect Marriage Washington filed the original lawsuit, claiming the availability of the petitions publicly violated the First Amendment rights of the people who signed the petitions because the public disclosure chills their speech. In a separate federal lawsuit, the Family Policy Institute is challenging the state’s disclosure laws for contributions to the referendum campaign and limits on the size of those contributions.

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[msongs]

1. again the dominant religion attempts to destory all opposition in the name of hate nt

[Divine Discontent]

2. God bless Gay Marriage! I hope we ram it down every one of their damn knuckle-dragging throats.

If someone loves another human being - who the heck's right is it to tell them that their love is invalid - or worse - perverted and an affront to holiness?!


Woe to those who invade on love's domain!