“This is a culmination of the entire gay rights movement. We have spent many, many, years working toward this,”
Richard J. Rosendall, a past president of the Gay and Lesbian Activist Alliance of Washington D.C., said after the vote.
“It really speaks to the long and rich tradition of tolerance and acceptance that does make up the sense of place in the District of Columbia,”
council member David A. Catania (I-At Large), the chief sponsor of the bill, said before the vote.
via D.C. Council approves same-sex marriage bill – washingtonpost.com.
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Nov 09
Religious Authority vs. LGBT People
The movement to throw off ancient barbaric views about LGBT people and to include LGBT people at society’s table is a change the conservative priests and religious fundamentalist preachers and institutions have decided to oppose at all costs.
Washington D.C. Catholic Diocese Threatens to Stop All Social Services if Marriage Equality Passes – washingtonpost.com
Why? They believe, and rightly so, that this LGBT Civil Rights Movement is a direct threat to their unquestioned authority and traditional power. How, they ask, can they admit their vilification and dehumanization of lgbt people has been in error all of these .. centuries? Yet that’s what more and more straight lay folk are coming to understand about anti-LGBT religious teachings as LGBT friends and family bear witness to prejudice and injustice. More and more straight lay folk are seeing the anti-gay teaching of their conservative fundamentalist church, priest or preacher as nothing more than ugly supremacist bigotry, fear and ignorance being passed down from generation to generation.