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Gay Marriage in D.C.

By W. James Antle, III on 4.8.09 @ 3:04PM

It didn't get as much attention as the Vermont legislature's veto override, but yesterday the Washingotn, D.C. city council passed and Mayor Adrian Fenty signed a bill requiring the district to recognize same-sex marriages performed in states where marriage is so defined. That means that D.C. residents could travel to Massachusetts, Iowa, or Vermont, marry, and have their marriages recognized when they return.

David Catania, a Republican-turned-independent city council member, plans to introduce legislation to cover same-sex marriages performed within the District. Catania left the GOP at least in part of then-President Bush's (nominal) support for a federal marriage amendment. It will be interesting to see how Congress, which has the ultimate lawmaking power over the federal district, will react. Many Democratic leaders will be sympathetic to the District's moves, others will be opposed -- and many more will be reluctant to be seen as supportive of same-sex marriage back home.

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Alan Brooks| 4.8.09 @ 4:24PM

if were going to go brave new world, let's go all the way. it's like the song by the raspberries:

"Please go all the way.."

John| 4.8.09 @ 7:45PM

If one even mentioned this insanity in 1977, the year that I graduated from High School, you'd have been asked what SciFi novel you had been reading too much of... or something considerably ruder. That would have been before the derisive laughter chased you out of the room.

The very public institution of marriage (marriage is a public contract and social compact, not a private one) has been under heavy assault since the rise in the divorce rate at the close of World War II.

It was only a matter of time before our increasingly narcissistic society took the next step and made the institution that underpins our entire civilization at tragic joke.

I can guarantee you that within ten years the polygamous and polyandrous will be banging at the door demanding their due... The rising Muslim population will no doubt be first in line. Though the apostate fundamentalist Mormon communities might beat them to it.

Or society has torn itself apart at the roots by people who have been so destroyed and disrupted emotionally that they can only strike back by undermining the institution that failed them so miserably.

Homosexuality is the essence of anti-family behavior. Now society is tricked into imposing it upon the concept of the nuclear family. Like feeding a baby bourbon... to quiet it.

Our current society is doomed.. one only wonders what will come out of the other side of the hell that we are imposing on it now.

Rome was followed by the Dark Ages in the West, and the Turkish Caliphate in the East. The Israelites wandered in the desert for a generation after worshiping the Golden Calf.

:-/ John

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