D.C. Attorney General Backs BOEE on Marriage
D.C.'s Office of the Attorney General filed a brief Friday, Dec. 18, responding to a lawsuit brought last month by Bishop Harry Jackson against the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics (BOEE). Jackson,...
View ArticleRound-Three Rejection
If the maxim about insanity being defined as repeating the same course of action yet expecting different results has any bearing in truth, the crowd fighting marriage equality in the District may have...
View ArticleJackson's Last-Minute Effort
Bishop Harry Jackson, along with others opposed to marriage equality coming to Washington, filed a last-minute request at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, March 1, seeking to stop the Religious...
View ArticleCelebrating Victory
It's in my nature to urge caution when it comes to celebrating our political successes. Long experience has taught us that defeat is sometimes snatched from the jaws of victory. It's often better, I...
View ArticleThe Legitimacy Lie
March was a heady month in the District of Columbia. The influx of same-sex couples at the marriage bureau boosted applications to six times their normal rate. Activists have cause to celebrate....
View ArticleNOM's Deep Pockets
The Gay and Lesbian Activist Alliance (GLAA) alerted D.C. voters this week that Robert ''Bob'' King of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 5A has received a total of $60,900 from the National...
View ArticleDC Court of Appeals Upholds Decision Denying Marriage Initiative
The D.C. Court of Appeals issued its awaited decision in Bishop Harry Jackson’s appeal of the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics’s decision that his proposed marriage initiative was an improper subject...
View ArticleHarry Jackson revived: Promotes vote on DC gay marriage, ex-gays, “outraged...
”I believe in civil rights, according to Walter Fauntroy, who’s one proponent of our DC marriage bill here that we’re working on, said that housing, education, salary, and also fair treatment in court...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Rallies [video]
On Sunday, Aug. 15, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) brought its ''Summer of Marriage'' bus tour to an end on the east lawn of the U.S. Capitol, where the group's president Brian Brown and...
View ArticleYoung Boy Counters Bishop
Brian Brown, the National Organization for Marriage's president, took the stage of a rally scheduled for 2 p.m., on Sunday Aug. 13 with an announcement: ''We're running a little late,'' he said, adding...
View ArticleDueling Rallies
The good thing about dueling rallies is that, if you choose, you can focus on the one that uplifts you rather than the one that seeks to keep you down. When the National Organization for Marriage (NOM)...
View ArticleBattening the Hatches
If the Republican Party regains control of Congress on Nov. 2, already-stalled pro-gay legislation would be dead — at least barring an uncharacteristically bold lame-duck action by Democrats. On the...
View ArticleThe Path Down the Aisle
Two weeks before the start of 2010, Mayor Adrian Fenty joined a crowd of about 200 at All Souls Unitarian Church where he signed the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009....
View ArticleTop Court Declines
For updates to this story, visit Metro Weekly's Poliglot blog.On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down a request by Bishop Harry Jackson and others to hear their case seeking an initiative on...
View ArticleAcross the Threshold
It can sometimes feel a little awkward to celebrate a victory achieved by something not happening. But even though the Supreme Court's decision not to hear a challenge to D.C.'s marriage-equality law...
View ArticleTrump’s Easter blessing delivered by anti-gay bishop who compared marriage...
Bishop Harry Jackson has called marriage equality a "Satanic plot" and claimed that gay people are trying to "recruit" children The post Trump’s Easter blessing delivered by anti-gay bishop who...
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