The DC City Council voted today to recognize same-sex marriages performed in states that have adopted equality laws. It’s a solid step towards DC’s bringing same-sex marriage within its own laws. There will, no doubt, be the challenge of overcoming Congress (which can overturn any DC law, no matter how petty). It’ll be an interesting illustration of 1) the Democratic Party’s commitment to equality and 2) the hollowness of the Republican Party’s supposed commitment to states’ rights.
tx2vadem
DC is not a state; thus, not a states’ rights issue. =P
MB
Don’t make me kick you.
Silence Dogood
I can actually go either way with tx2vadem’s point:
If DC doesn’t grant full faith and credit to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of other states because it iself is not a state, that sucks for gay marriage.
On the other hand, maybe we can finnagle it so that we don’t have to recognize anyone else’s marriage, either. It would be legally impossible to commit adultry in the District of Columbia if you weren’t born here. We’d be the new Las Vegas of the East Coast. What happens in DC stays in DC!
Silence Dogood
(that should say if you weren’t married here–sorry, I was distracted by the thought of how many more available women actually would live here in that event)