Tag Archives: Washington DC

“This battle is not over. DC politicians are blocking the right of people to vote on marriage. Voters in 31 other states have already exercised their right to vote on this issue. It is ironic that some politicians actively campaign demanding DC voting rights and yet they are conspiring to deny those same citizens the right to vote on the …

According to a message just posted on the Twitter account of DC For Marriage, the Washington DC City Council has approved marriage equality by a vote of 11-2. This was only the first of two required votes. The final vote is expected in two weeks. Same-sex marriage is coming to the District – suck it, Bishop Harry Jackson! Read about …

Moonies and birthers sittin’ in a tree. B-I-G-O-T-R-Y. This latest national edition of the Washington Times features a full-page ad that claims that President Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States. The ad was purchased by the anti-Obama website ProtectOurLiberty.org. While the group has placed several birther ads in the Washington Times in recent months, the version …

“Outing, to me, has always seemed like using sexual orientation as a weapon, like an act of violence. To out gay priests for an anti-gay Church policy, well, how is that different than outing gay and lesbian servicemembers because Congress adopted the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy? “Does anyone honestly think that by outing one or 100 gay priests, the …

The governors of Maryland and Virginia, both of whom are Catholic, appeared on DC-area radio yesterday to blast DC’s Catholic Charities over the organization’s threat to suspend homeless services should same-sex marriage become legal in the District. Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley criticized the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington’s response to the district’s gay marriage proposal during …

A handful of gays were sprinkled among the guests at the Obama administration’s first state dinner last night. Several prominent gay men and lesbians were among those at the White House Tuesday night for President and Mrs. Obama’s first state dinner, held in honor of India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife, Gursharan Kaur. Among those on the 338-person …

“According to DC’s HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS. The Administrator of this office notes that this HIV/AIDS incidence is “…higher than West Africa…on par with Uganda and some parts of Kenya.” And the principal way that HIV is transmitted continues to be through male homosexual activity. Amidst this dismal picture, the DC City …

Good As You reports that DC’s Catholic Charities placed a message in yesterday’s Sunday bulletin of St. Peters’s Cathedral to complain that the press was misreporting their threat to suspend social services if same-sex marriage is approved. Take it away, Jeremy Hooper: It would be one thing if they came right out and said, “Look, we simply don’t wanna serve …

“A new homosexual website, ChurchOuting.org, is intent on publicly disclosing who the gay priests are in the Archdiocese of Washington. The goal of this outing is to intimidate gay priests, as well as heterosexual priests who may be “romantically involved,” into voicing objections to the Catholic Church’s opposition to gay marriage. “This initiative is the work of Phil Attey, self-described …

Maryland-based carpetbagger Bishop Harry Jackson and seven co-plaintiffs have filed a suit in DC Superior Court in order to force Washington residents into a public vote on marriage equality. Jackson’s action comes after DC’s Board of Elections and Ethics refused to allow a ballot on the issue. In the 15-page filing, Jackson and his seven co-petitioners argue that the city’s …

Talk about quick! Staffers from the just-defunct Washington Blade will launch their new publication, DC Agenda, tomorrow. (With some help from the Gay Men’s Chorus.) Members of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C. presented the former Washington Blade with a check Wednesday night for a full-page ad in the newspaper’s new print iteration, the D.C. Agenda, which will be …

“Two weeks ago, just after the Maine’s successful reversal of the state legislature’s decision to sanction same-sex marriage, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer asked me a profound question: ‘Would Jesus have spent $550,000 to oppose same-sex marriage?’ “The question was exactly what many secular parties had been asking in Portland, Maine, where she was speaking to me by satellite. My answer was …

Washington DC activist and JMG reader Phil Attey has launched ChurchOuting.org, a site intended to publicize the names of Catholic priests who are socially out but professionally closeted. Via press release: A new local Internet and social media campaign was launched today in response to increasing anti-gay attacks by Archbishop Donald Wuerl of the Archdiocese of Washington and to a …

DC’s Catholic Charities is pushing forward with its threat to close its soup kitchens and homeless shelters should the city legalize same-sex marriage. A double-speaking church spokesman tells Wolf Blitzer that Catholic Charities has “no intention” of ending its help to the poor, but a moment later says that “we can’t represent something that goes against our core beliefs.”

Now THIS will give you a smile. When the guy hired to provide the sound system for yesterday’s Power Rangers For Jeebus hate rally in DC found out what his customers stood for, he donated his fee back to the gay activists counter-protesting the event and even let them use the haters’ own microphone! The Washington Post cannot restrain its …

Cathy Renna reports that a Virginia-based company had bid on the assets of the Washington Blade and were in negotiations for takeover before yesterday’s abrupt closure of the venerable LGBT newspaper. Via email: In response to media inquiries and an apparent information blackout by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Nicholas F. Benton, owner of the Falls Church News-Press, a …

Today’s fearsome and Godly demonstration of “civil disobedience” held outside the Department of Justice by the Power Rangers For Jeebus was nothing but a same-old same-old boring little press conference attended by nobody else but its speakers and a handful of placard-holding gays. Wait, can there be a “press conference” if there’s no actual press? Fizzzzzle. Where were the promised …

Pretty much every Christianist loon you’ve ever heard of will be outside the Department of Justice in Washington DC at 1:30pm today to protest the recently passed hate crimes act. Wild-eyed luminaries such as Matt Barber, Peter LaBarbera, Gary Cass, Bishop Harry Jackson and their coterie of crazies will be attempting to incite their own arrest by “preaching the Biblical …

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington DC has issued an ultimatum to Washington DC, saying if marriage equality is approved without an exemption for them, they will end all their social service programs including food and shelter for the homeless, adoption programs, and public health services. Under the bill, headed for a D.C. Council vote next month, religious organizations would not …

HRC Back Story reports that Washington DC’s marriage equality bill has just passed in committee by a vote of 4-1. The bill now goes to the full DC city council on December 1st for an initial vote before final passage, which is expected to take place before the end of the year. Go DC!