7/27/2010
Will SCOTUS let DC vote on marriage?
Last Thursday, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals joined the D.C. Superior Court in calling natural marriage "discriminatory" and arguing that, as such, voters should not have the opportunity to protect it. A block of five judges wrote, "Because appellants' proposed initiative would authorize, or have the effect of authorizing, discrimination on the basis prohibited by the Human Rights Act, it was not a proper subject of initiative." The case turned more on arcane details of D.C. law than it did on the merits of homosexual "marriage."
Until the District gives its people a voice, Bishop Harry Jackson's team is determined to bring the issue to the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, the next -- and final stop -- in preserving the principle of self-governance that this city is supposed to symbolize.
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