Gay marriage vote will happen on the 15th
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courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
WaPo’s DC Wire blog reports that the council and the Human Rights Campaign are planning to have a party next Tuesday evening celebrating the passage of the marriage equality bill. Invitations have gone out already. Mine apparently got lost in the mail.
There’s still no sign on the council’s website – in either the meeting calendar or the legislative agendas – of a legislative sessions schedule for that day. When I asked Young about it via email he stated “Council rules only require 24 hours notice for an additional legislative meeting. I expect that it will be noticed sometime this week.”
Presumably it’ll happen at 11am, after the already scheduled 10am committee of the whole – that’s when past additional legislative meetings have been scheduled on days when the committee of the whole was already slated to meet at their usual 10am time.
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7 Responses to “Gay marriage vote will happen on the 15th”
December 7th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Unfortunately, it seems that this vote is a foregone conclusion that it will pass, in spite of the fact that it doesn’t represent the will of the voters in the District. It should be put to a popular vote – it’s a democracy.
December 7th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
If Loving v. Virginia had been put to popular vote in 1967, how do you think it would have turned out?
December 7th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Popular vote? Can I vote on your marriage too?
Kudos to DC, and to CT where we just celebrated the one year anniversary of our marriage equality law.
And congrats to all the couples coming to CT to wed from all across the country, many of whom have been together for 20, 30 and 40 years!
Onward to equality,
Joe Mustich, Justice of the Peace,
Washington, Connecticut, USA
December 7th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
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December 7th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
then everything should be put through with a popular vote……..no need for representatives anymore.
December 7th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
“Unfortunately, it seems that this vote is a foregone conclusion that it will pass, in spite of the fact that it doesn’t represent the will of the voters in the District. It should be put to a popular vote – it’s a democracy.”
i’d respond to this but the honorable Mr. Mustich et al have covered it quite well.
i propose anyone named steve be denied the right to purchase property in new jersey
December 9th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Thank you for the great post!