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?Gay marriage referendum denied?

By Alliance Alert

Michael Neibauer reports in The Washington Examiner: "But Raum responded that court precedent, namely Dean v. District of Columbia, already bars all same-sex marriages in D.C. The 1995 D.C. Court of Appeals decision, certain to be at the heart of his appeal, held that the Superior Court clerk?s decision not to issue a marriage license to a gay couple was right and did not violate the Human Rights Act. 'There?s no principal difference between retaining marriage as between one man and one woman in the District and the District refusing to recognize same sex marriages from other states and other countries,' Raum said. 'Both are the same. Neither of those two things violate the [Human Rights Act].'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).