D.C. Council Votes to Recognize Same-Sex Marriages Performed in Other States

Washington Post ^ | May 5., 2009 | Tim Craig

[Bokababe]

Washington Post reporter Tim Craig relays that the D.C. Council has voted 13-0, without debate, to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. Watch D.C. Wire for updates.

[edcoil]

DC is not a state.

[RexBeach]

What a surprise!

And the Nation’s Capital steps down to a lower ring of Hell.

Well done, DC. Well done.

[a fool in paradise]

So what’s Barney Frank’s excuse for not getting married now?

[bill1952]

So when do they recognize my Florida State concealed weapons permit?

[Kansas58]

He does not want to make it public that he is sleeping with mortgage lenders?

[Kansas58]

This is ripe for a vote in Congress.

This will force Congress and Obama to make a stand they do not want to make.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

While DC believes in the right to choose in the cases of abortion and gay marriage, they still don’t like having people the right to own guns and let their kids get vouchers to send them to better performing private schools.

[Constitution Day]

Abomination.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

The inmates are running the asylum.

[Bokababe]

I know that I am in the minority here and will likely get slammed for what I am about to say, but I'll say it anyway. It is not for government to decide what is or isn't "a marriage". All that government should be involved in is recognizing a legal partnership. Defining "marriage" should be left to priests, rabbis, clergy and even the individuals themselves. Giving the concept of "marriage" over to a secular government to define is like asking whores to define the concept of "purity".

There is really no way to win this "marriage" issue with politicians in this day and age -- except to take the issue out of their hands-- but people just keep trying.

[JSDude1]

Well then you have to get government out of tax issues (or get rid of the IRS as te same time) becuase the priary reason that government is in the business of recognizing marriage is for Taxes/tax filings.

[rintense]

Exactly right. I’d love to see the NRA jump all over this one.

[TalBlack]

“Abomination.”

And as such, God fearing men and women who wish to marry shold exclude any acknowledgment or participation by the deviant loving state in the process.

[a fool in paradise]

He doesn’t want to GET married. He wants approval for him to get married. It is about knocking down barriers, not about morality of living in a committed relationship vs. unmarried sin.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Why did they decide to recognize gay marriage performed in other places? What about marriages performed in DC? Don’t they decide the marriage laws for DC itself, or is that a Congressional decision?

[gidget7]

Way to further alienate the people and divide the country DC.

[a fool in paradise]

It isn’t just government that recognized marriages. If your employer gives medical benefits, your spouse also is elligible.

However many firms also offer benefits for unmarried domestic partners (at least of same sex couples).

[rabscuttle385]

Well, I guess that’s good news for Barney Frank and Lindsay Graham.

[anniegetyourgun]

no longer slouching.....sprinting.....