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DC marriage ordinance in the spotlight

By Alliance Alert

OneNewsNow reports: "Attorney Tim Tracy of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) says proponents of the Council's decision argue banning homosexual marriage violates the city's human rights law on the basis of sexual orientation. He labels the situation 'kind of anomalous.' '. . . [Y]ou have a non-discrimination law and DC marriage laws that have existed side by side for 32 years,' he points out. 'And only now in the last two weeks has anyone ever suggested that those DC marriage laws, defining marriage as between a man and a woman, somehow constitutes [sic] discrimination under the Human Rights Act.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).