Columbia District Employment Lawyer

Columbia District Employment Lawyer

Columbia District Employment Lawyer

Posted on: December 28, 2011 - 12:01 pm
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On Dec. 18, 2009, at All Souls Church northwest, Washington, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty in the company of gay rights supporters signed a bill to legalize gay-marriage in the District. However, Congress has a 30- day window to vote yea or nay on the measure.

Earlier this month, D.C.'s Board of Elections and Ethics denied a measure that would allow voters to ban same-sex marriages in the district, because they claimed it conflicts with a 1977 Human Rights Act, which guards against discrimination. The bill passed 11-2.

A lead opponent of the bill, Bishop Harry Jackson, released a statement to the press shortly after Fenty signed the measure, declaring he would continue to fight the legalization of gay-marriage in the District through Congress and the courts, as The Washington Post reported December 19.

Opponent of Gay-Marriage in the District Petition Congress

Bob King, an ANC Commissioner from Ward 5 was said to have sent all 535 members of Congress a letter to force the council to have the measure placed on the ballot for a citywide vote, according to Sommer Mathis, editor for the DCist, a website about Washington, D.C.

As for the Obama administration and its stance on same-sex marriage, the administration filed court papers earlier this week claiming that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against gays, although government lawyers have allegedly taken a stand to defend the act, as a recent CBS article indicates.

The President and his Initiatives to Update 2010 Census

According to an article published by The Wall Street Journal June 2009, President Obama and his administration have already started looking into ways to include same-sex marriages, unions, and partnerships in the 2010 Census data.