All posts tagged "marriage"
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Referendum Wrap-Up
Over the past several weeks, Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Md., has been speaking, rallying and even officiating a...
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Referendum Rejected
The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics (DCBOEE) has rejected a proposed referendum that would subject the District's move to recognize same-sex marriages performed in...
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Nickles Says No
D.C. Attorney General Peter J. Nickles issued an opinion today, June 11, advising the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics to reject a proposed referendum...
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Referendum Rumble
The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics this morning, Wednesday, June 10, heard arguments from both sides in a contentious fight regarding recent legislation to...
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Divine Intervention
When it comes to marriage equality, the conventional wisdom is that God is on the side of those opposed, that homophobic clergy are the rule...
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Marriage Matters
The setting was nearly divine, as marriage-equality activists gathered in a hall of All Souls Church, Unitarian, in Columbia Heights. The sky turned to twilight...
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Bad Shepherd
''Every single person who voted for this, they're gone,'' shouted Rev. Anthony Evans, associate pastor of D.C.'s Mount Zion Baptist Church, into a news camera....
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Mayor Signs for Marriage
Mayor Adrian Fenty signed legislation on Wednesday, May 6, requiring D.C. to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. Mafara Hobson, Fenty's director of communications,...
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Nuptial Know-How
Planning a wedding can be expensive and nerve-wracking. And if you've decided to tie the knot with your other half and you just happen to...
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Marriage Beats Malice
For a few minutes on Tuesday, May 5, the hallway outside the D.C. City Council's chambers, on the fifth floor of the John A. Wilson...
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Storefront Stand
If Brad Allison was a bully, he'd be one to hide from. At an inch shy of 6 feet, weighing in at 240 pounds, and...
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Rallying Against Equality
''There are a lot of issues that we agree on, there are some that we don't agree on, but...we have to say no to same-sex...
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Rallying Against Equality
''There are a lot of issues that we agree on, there are some that we don't agree on, but...we have to say no to same-sex...
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Countering Marriage Equality
A newly formed coalition uniting Hope Christian Church and the High Impact Leadership Coalition (HILC), based in Beltsville and College Park, respectively; the national, D.C.-group,...
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Marriage Movement
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, a GLBT political club and one of the District's most influential, succeeded in finding some common ground in the push...
