OMG! Someone FINALLY gets it! DC Board of Elections declares no popular vote on gay marriage rights

[WillParkinson]

DC Board of Elections declares no popular vote on gay marriage rights

From a press release:

(Washington, DC) Civil rights triumphed over another failed attack from advocates of discrimination when today, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics rejected a proposed referendum to put the rights of a minority up for a vote.

The proposed effort to limit the rights of District residents was brought by Stand For Marriage and Maryland pastor, Bishop Harry Jackson. The BOEE denied the referendum as a violation of the Human Rights Act of the District of Columbia.

“Equality should never be up for debate or denied on a ballot,” said D.C. resident Michael Crawford, Co-chair of D.C. for Marriage. “We only want what every other American already has – the right to marry the person we love.”

Rev. Cedric Harmon, a D.C. resident and a representative of D.C. Clergy United for Marriage Equality, a group of nearly 200 Washington, D.C. faith leaders representing all eight wards of the District and a variety of religious faiths added the following statement in support of the BOEE’s decision:

http://www.365gay.com/news/dc-board-of-elections-declares-no-popular-vote-on-gay-marriage-rights/

[barbtries]

1. that's what should be happening

all over the country. civil rights are guaranteed by the constitution right? how can they be voted away??

[Kerrytravelers]

2. Let us hope that this will be the new trend, and not this terrible Prop h8 that we're now seeing.

[stopbush]

3. Why this didn't happen with P8 in CA I'll never know.

[tbyg52]

7. Nobody ever dreamed it would pass in CA? That's the only thought I've been able to come up with. nt

[David Zephyr]

4. Thankfully, some are finally catching on. No voting on civil rights.

WillBowden, I've been a broken record on this subject.

Sadly and disgracefully now, we have some in our own community rejoicing about yet another fucking unconstitutional ballot measure here in California.

It's stupid to do this.

David Boies and Ted Olson are in the strike zone with their federal quest to overturn the entire Prop 8 as unconstitutional. And they will win. Just watch.

And wanting still another ballot measure here in the Golden State is like begging, groveling for something we already fucking deserve.

No fucking voter can think he/she is granting me something that the Constitution already does.

Keep at it, WillBowden.

[NoSheep]

5. “Equality should never be up for debate or denied on a ballot”

Sane news!!!! I can't believe it!

[Hepburn]

6. That is the way is should ALWAYS be....

....:patriot:

Thank you, DC, for doing what is the right thing for equality and not letting a buncha bigots harm those they do not like.

KNR

[Nikki Stone1]

8. This is the right way to avoid a Prop 8

Excellent news!