G.A.Y: Destroying D.C.’s Economy

Good As You has a great post about the FRC and their brand of homophobia and how they use it to argue that gay marriage will destroy D.C.’s economy.  Below is an excerpt:

When a group blames HIV/AIDS on any population, they’ve already lost the argument. Most always. Because yes, in this country this cruel disease affected the gay male population most significantly in the early days, which has obviously kept gay men vulnerable every vaccine/cure-less year since. But that’s not the case everywhere. It’s just that groups like FRC only need to mine political opportunity off of the backs of American gays, so we are the only ones who they need to cruelly fight at the expense of fighting the disease itself!

Read more here!

Why It Can’t Be a Milestone

If we are truly to succeed and make gay marriage legal across the US, gay marriage in DC can’t be seen as huge victory that sees us stake a rainbow flag and move onto the next challenge, it has to seen as another, albeit very important, step in a journey where it is not about the big victories but more about gathering people to walk with us and support us as we walk towards the much bigger goal of marriage equality for all across the country.

More at: Queeried!

Watch DC Same Sex Marriages Live!

You can catch the live recording of DC’s first same sex marriage here!
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For Gay Catholics D.C. Marriage Win Bittersweet

“I didn’t go on Ash Wednesday for the first time in years,” he says. “I really felt like I didn’t belong anymore, and I couldn’t be part of a church that didn’t want me or anyone like me as part of it.”

Clutching the hand of Allen Pittinger, his partner for the past nine years, Dunham says he has long felt snubbed by the Catholic Church. But the final straw came when Catholic Charities in Washington, D.C., stopped handling adoptions so that it would not have to place children in the homes of gay couples. And as of March 2, it stopped providing spousal benefits for all employees, lest the organization give benefits to a gay spouse.

Pittinger and Dunham see these as cynical moves.

“Now, they don’t have to provide any type of benefits for anyone going forward,” Pittinger says.

More at: KOSU.org!

About Marrying in DC

Effective March 3, 2010, same-sex couples may apply for marriage licenses in the District of Columbia.

Are you and your partner ready to get married? If so, find what you need to know before getting married in Washington D.C. at: Ramon Johnson’s About.com Gay Life!

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