D.C. Board Refuses Same-Sex Marriage Voter Initiative.
This is what every state needs to do, and should have done, when faced with those hateful, bigoted, ballot initiatives seeking to eradicate civil rights for LGBT individuals. Needless to say the RRRWers are having the vapors over it. (Story taken from RRRW source; scare quotes are theirs.)
The Board of Elections and Ethics in Washington D.C. ruled Tuesday that allowing a same-sex ‘marriage’ ban on the ballot would violate the city’s Human Rights Act of 1977. On Wednesday, the organization, Stand4MarriageDC filed a lawsuit against the board saying it is denying D.C. citizens the right to vote on the definition of marriage.
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Board of Elections Chairman Errol R. Arthur said in a statement on Tuesday that “laws of the District of Columbia preclude us from allowing this initiative to move forward” and that the initiative “would authorize discrimination prohibited under the [District’s] Human Rights Act.”
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Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America, also weighed in on the situation. “The D.C. Council reeks of rank hypocrisy. For years they have demanded that D.C. citizens should have the right to vote for congressional representation, which is in direct contradiction to the Constitution. Yet now they are denying D.C. citizens the right to vote on marriage, an institution so fundamental to America’s well-being that territories were not allowed to become states unless they kept marriage between one man and one woman,” she said in a press release on Nov 18.
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I know, Wendy, voting on the human rights of others is a time honored American tradition. That’s why you’ve offered yours up for the next election, right? 
If only the rest of the nation would learn from D.C. millions of dollars would be saved, and many millions of families would protected.
