‘Law Books’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
WaPo’s DC Wire blog reports that the council and the Human Rights Campaign are planning to have a party next Tuesday evening celebrating the passage of the marriage equality bill. Invitations have gone out already. Mine apparently got lost in the mail.
There’s still no sign on the council’s website – in either the meeting calendar or the legislative agendas – of a legislative sessions schedule for that day. When I asked Young about it via email he stated “Council rules only require 24 hours notice for an additional legislative meeting. I expect that it will be noticed sometime this week.”
Presumably it’ll happen at 11am, after the already scheduled 10am committee of the whole – that’s when past additional legislative meetings have been scheduled on days when the committee of the whole was already slated to meet at their usual 10am time.
Well I used to say something in my profile about not quite being a “tinker, tailor, soldier, or spy” but Tom stole that for our about us page, so I guess I’ll have to find another way to express that I am a man of many interests.
Hmm, guess I just did.
My tastes run the gamut from sophomoric to Shakespeare and in my “professional” life I’ve sold things, served beer, written software, and carried heavy objects… sometimes at the same place. It’s that range of loves and activities that makes it so easy for me to love DC – we’ve got it all.
Unfortunately, it seems that this vote is a foregone conclusion that it will pass, in spite of the fact that it doesn’t represent the will of the voters in the District. It should be put to a popular vote – it’s a democracy.
If Loving v. Virginia had been put to popular vote in 1967, how do you think it would have turned out?
Popular vote? Can I vote on your marriage too?
Kudos to DC, and to CT where we just celebrated the one year anniversary of our marriage equality law.
And congrats to all the couples coming to CT to wed from all across the country, many of whom have been together for 20, 30 and 40 years!
Onward to equality,
Joe Mustich, Justice of the Peace,
Washington, Connecticut, USA
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then everything should be put through with a popular vote……..no need for representatives anymore.
“Unfortunately, it seems that this vote is a foregone conclusion that it will pass, in spite of the fact that it doesn’t represent the will of the voters in the District. It should be put to a popular vote – it’s a democracy.”
i’d respond to this but the honorable Mr. Mustich et al have covered it quite well.
i propose anyone named steve be denied the right to purchase property in new jersey
Thank you for the great post!