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D.C. Council Votes to Recognize Same-Sex Marriages Performed in Other States
Washington Post ^ | May 5., 2009 | Tim Craig

Posted on 05/05/2009 9:02:07 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: antibiblicalmarriage; celebratesin; culturewar; dc; fauxmarriage; federalism; homonaziagenda; homosexualagenda; marionbarry; samesexmarriage; unbiblicalmarriage
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1 posted on 05/05/2009 9:02:07 AM PDT by Bokababe
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To: Bokababe

DC is not a state.


2 posted on 05/05/2009 9:03:31 AM PDT by edcoil (Taxes only help an evil government)
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To: Bokababe

What a surprise!

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

Well done, DC. Well done.


3 posted on 05/05/2009 9:03:44 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Do your duty in all things." Robert E. Lee)
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To: RexBeach

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


4 posted on 05/05/2009 9:04:42 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (IRONY - we know more about the First Dog's historical papers than we do of President Barack.)
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To: Bokababe

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


5 posted on 05/05/2009 9:05:12 AM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: a fool in paradise

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


6 posted on 05/05/2009 9:05:35 AM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Bokababe
This is ripe for a vote in Congress.

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

7 posted on 05/05/2009 9:06:15 AM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Bokababe

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.


8 posted on 05/05/2009 9:07:31 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: Bokababe

Abomination.


9 posted on 05/05/2009 9:09:46 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Kansas58

The inmates are running the asylum.


10 posted on 05/05/2009 9:12:31 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: 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.

11 posted on 05/05/2009 9:12:37 AM PDT by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe

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.


12 posted on 05/05/2009 9:14:43 AM PDT by JSDude1 (DHS, FBI, FEMA, etc have been bad little boys. They need to be spanked and sent to timeout!)
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To: bill1952

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


13 posted on 05/05/2009 9:17:26 AM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: Constitution Day
“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.

14 posted on 05/05/2009 9:19:19 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: Kansas58

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.


15 posted on 05/05/2009 9:25:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (IRONY - we know more about the First Dog's historical papers than we do of President Barack.)
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To: TalBlack

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?


16 posted on 05/05/2009 9:26:03 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Bokababe
Way to further alienate the people and divide the country DC.
17 posted on 05/05/2009 9:26:39 AM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: JSDude1

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).


18 posted on 05/05/2009 9:27:33 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (IRONY - we know more about the First Dog's historical papers than we do of President Barack.)
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To: Bokababe

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


19 posted on 05/05/2009 9:33:07 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: Bokababe

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


20 posted on 05/05/2009 9:33:19 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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