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Adrian Fenty Volunteers to Head Straight to Hell By Signing Marriage Law in a Church

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Well this is bound to stir up some shit: D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty will today sign the city’s gay marriage bill into law … at a church. It’s likely it’ll be Covenant Baptist Church, the black church where husband-and-wife co-pastors (and gay marriage supporters) Dennis and Christine Wiley preside, or All Souls Unitarian Church, known for its LGBT inclusiveness. (UPDATE: It’s happening now, at All Souls!) We expect either the sky to open up and lightening to strike Fenty dead; or, bursts of applause and tears of joy. Either way, we’re more in love with Fenty than ever, as this is an obvious fuck you to the religious bigots who threatened gay marriage supporters — and a nod to a religious community that can actually welcome us as equals.

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No. 1 · terrwill · Member · 2441 comments

Lets move this guy from his current house in DC to another
one in 2012!!

Posted: Dec 18, 2009 at 10:28 am · @ReplyReply to this comment · [Flag?]
No. 2 · asa1973

I’m sorry, but this man is HOT!

Posted: Dec 18, 2009 at 10:32 am · @ReplyReply to this comment · [Flag?]
No. 3 · Mr. Enemabag Jones

asa1973

I’m sorry, but this man is HOT!

Don’t be sorry! The man is smoking hot 8^)

Posted: Dec 18, 2009 at 10:47 am · @ReplyReply to this comment · [Flag?]
No. 4 · ksu499

This is a mistake. This bill should definitively not be signed in a church. This has been all about religion not being allowed to define what the government thinks marriage is. A church has the right to define marriage however it chooses; the government must abide by the Constitution which guarantees equal protection under the law.

Posted: Dec 18, 2009 at 11:41 am · @ReplyReply to this comment · [Flag?]
No. 5 · tavdy79

asa1973 don’t apologise for being right – he’s hot and has a heart, what more could you ask for?

Posted: Dec 18, 2009 at 12:18 pm · @ReplyReply to this comment · [Flag?]
No. 6 · terrwill · Member · 2441 comments

No. 4 ยท ksu499: Sorry for too long the frightwing-nutbag
lunatics have been using the pulpit to wage war on the Gays
Its time they saw things from another perspective, We can
use the same tactics they do………

Posted: Dec 18, 2009 at 12:21 pm · @ReplyReply to this comment · [Flag?]
No. 7 · Steve

This is a good thing. The Unitarian Churches believe that gay people should be allowed to marry. All Souls Unitarian in Washington has a web site that explains their beliefs. See, http://www.all-souls.org/

By highlighting a church that believes gay people should be treated as whole people, and allowed to marry, this helps the cause. Many people wrongly believe that all churches uniformly condemn gay people. The knowledge that some churches support gay marriage and gay people might make some heads explode. But, it will also help a lot of people to understand that “religious freedom” means letting different churches believe different things.

Posted: Dec 19, 2009 at 8:00 am · @ReplyReply to this comment · [Flag?]
No. 8 · LT

Another vote here for this being an incredibly good thing. Guess what, Righties, you don’t own morality or religion. (And for those crying separation of church and state, fact is lots of secular meetings are held in churches all the time, simply using the nice big spaces like an auditorium. And when’s the last time anyone complained about Martin Luther King having spoken to ostensibly non-religious community gatherings in churches during the 1960s?) Let’s stop pretending that religion and houses of worship are a factor of American life and culture that can be ignored completely. It’s there, lots of gays and str8 allies in them, and this was a very smart move by this mayor and the activists behind the solitary success. Come on, anyone notice why DC was the only solid victory recently? They went directly to the challenges: race and religion. In DC, the marriage equality movement was smart, mostly Af-Am, and bolstered by a large group of ministers.

Posted: Dec 19, 2009 at 5:19 pm · @ReplyReply to this comment · [Flag?]
No. 9 · Lucas

Yeah, Fenty is really, really hot. Porbably the hottest politician we have.

Posted: Dec 19, 2009 at 5:58 pm · @ReplyReply to this comment · [Flag?]
No. 10 · tjr101 · Member · 766 comments

Wow… of all the mayors in cities across America, DC apparently has the sexist! What is this world coming too?

Posted: Dec 20, 2009 at 7:11 pm · @ReplyReply to this comment · [Flag?]

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