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Mayor Fenty: Gay marriage in DC’s future

”I think you can certainly anticipate that [gay marriage] is in the future of the District of Columbia. How soon, we don’t know. But this is a huge step forward in being — having a law that recognizes marriages from other jurisdictions. And I do believe that nationally there’s movement on this issue. Just in the past six to 12 months — you just announced Maine being the latest state to grant same-sex marriages. I think, just as marriage used to prohibit people from different races from being able to marry each other in this country, and that was done away with; I think prohibiting same-sex marriage will be done away with also in this country.”

Adrian Fenty, Washington, DC’s Mayor, responding on camera to a question about the District “being next in line to perform gay marriages.” The DC Council voted 12-1 in spite of a protest by a number of preachers, mostly African-Americans, who object to the morality of gay marriage and of gay rights being comparison to the black civil rights movement. Fenty, incidentally, is the child of a mixed-raced family. (WTTG Fox 5)

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