Today, the (entire) D.C. Court of Appeals will hear the argument from Bishop Harry Jackson/Stand 4 Marriage D.C. on why voters should be given the chance to endorse marriage discrimination in the nation’s capital.
As a preview, Jackson showed up on the Christian Broadcast Network to explain the Democratic conspiracy in Congress that is “working and maneuvering” to repeal DOMA. Stop laughing at him!
DEREK WASHINGTON
This man has “Bookstore” written all over him.
RW in LGB
Is it rude of me to fervently wish that someone would just up and smash him in the face with a shovel during one of his press conferences? Am I alone in this?
What. An. Asshole.
Rashid
CBN should jump off a bridge.
There is no room for religious conviction or personal opinion when it comes to granting people civil rights. There is no true separation of church and state in this country (sadly). Many publicly elected officials drag their churches into state capitals across the country.
Asking the majority to vote and decide the outcomes of laws that affect a minority is absurd, and that is exactly why the District of Columbia isn’t allowing that to happen. This bigoted African American Bishop wouldn’t be able to tie the knot with a white female if he had the hots for her had the American public been able to voice their say in 1967 supreme court decision.
Aaron in Honolulu
Oh no, the gays are coming over the hill tops!!! DOOM AND GLOOOM!!!!!!
Wade MacMorrighan
Does anyone know what his argument has been this far, and what it will be in front of the judges? After all, it seems pretty cut-and-dry to me: the city’s Human Rights Act trumps any individual from seeking the right to vote on an issue that would target Gay people in the District! I hope he gets severely grilled by the justices about what an actual slippery slope this could be–it could open the doors for other bigotry as well, and render the Human Rights Act worthless! But, then again, he probably doesn’t care about that, does he.
Wade MacMorrighan
@Rashid:
>>>This bigoted African American Bishop wouldn’t be able to tie the knot with a white female if he had the hots for her had the American public been able to voice their say in 1967 supreme court decision.<<<
Absolutely! yet, there are many who insist that to draw an analogy between that ruling, and us, is not only offensive, but that they're not the same thing!
Jon
I will be using my gay prayer powers to neutralize their prayer votes to god. đ
anon
anon–it’ll hopefully get covered by someone who knows more, but I believe the challenge is to the restriction on laws that violate the human rights act. in other words, there’s a popular right to referendums/initiatives in the DC gov’t’s main document (not a constitution, but something like that) that is improperly restricted by a statute.
so it’s not that the provision doesn’t violate the HRA…it’s that the HRA restriction itself is impermissible.
Kieran
I wonder if Bishop Harry would like his civil rights determined by the “Will of the People” of Alabama or Mississippi?
Wade MacMorrighan
@Kieran: That is a VERY germane question! But, he’d like counter with the regular NOM-inspired talking points, like, “No one has the ‘right” to marry…it’s a privilege!”
Cam
I just love how these people who don’t even LIVE in DC try to come in and say what DC voters need. Hey jerk, the voters of DC put the council in place that VOTED for this law.
The thing that terrifies him is that Maryland’s attorney General has said that they must accept out of state gay marriagess, with DC having legal marriages, anybody in Maryland wanting to get married needs to take a 5 min – 3 1/2 hour drive depending on where in MD they live to get married.
Chris H
What happened to separation of Church and state….?