{"id":304619,"date":"2010-02-10T22:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/consensus-marriage-vote-dc-39295\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T22:30:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:30:15","slug":"consensus-for-marriage-vote-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/304619","title":{"rendered":"Consensus for Marriage Vote in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 02.10.10 02:00 PM posted by Chuck Donovan<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dc_vote.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week the District of Columbia\u0092s Board of Elections and Ethics (BOEE) <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/dc\/2010\/02\/elections_and_ethics_board_rul.html?hpid=sec-metro\" >rejected<\/a>, for the third time, a request by five D.C. citizens to put the issue of same-sex marriage to a popular vote.<\/p>\n<p>If the Board\u0092s decision is upheld by the D.C. Superior Court and appeals fail, only the U.S. Congress will be able to ensure that a vote occurs before the same-sex marriage law approved by the D.C. Council takes effect early next month.  Advocates of the traditional definition of marriage, represented by the public interest law firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancedefensefund.org\/main\/default.aspx\" >Alliance Defense Fund<\/a>, immediately filed an appeal of the BOEE ruling last Friday, and they are seeking an expedited ruling on the public\u0092s right to vote under the D.C. Charter.<\/p>\n<p>Now it appears that a solid majority of D.C. citizens, including a sizable number of supporters of same-sex marriage, favor allowing the people of the District of vote on the issue.  In a poll conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/06\/AR2010020602300.html\" >The Washington Post<\/a> published on Sunday, 59% of D.C. adults said that they favor allowing the people of the city to vote on the issue. This despite the fact that, according to the poll, 56% of D.C. residents favor same-sex marriage and only 35% are opposed.  There is also a racial split among D.C. adults.  Eighty-three percent of D.C.\u0092s white residents favor same-sex marriage, while only 37% of black D.C. residents do. The poll had a sample size of 1,135 and a margin of error of plus or minus three percent.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the pressure for a vote is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/700006601\/Bennett-Chaffetz-attack-DC-gay-marriage-law.html\" >new legislation<\/a> introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and the U.S. Senate by Robert Bennett (R-UT), which would disallow implementation of the same-sex marriage law until the people of D.C. have had a change to vote on the measure. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1225210\/Gay-marriage-rejected-31-U-S-states-vote-Maine-gives-legislation-thumbs-down.html\" >Thirty-one other U.S. jurisdictions have exercised that option and rejected same-sex marriage at the ballot box<\/a>.  Residents of the nation\u0092s capital should enjoy that same option, regardless of the outcome on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/10\/consensus-for-marriage-vote-in-dc\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/10\/&#8230;ge-vote-in-dc\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 02.10.10 02:00 PM posted by Chuck Donovan Last week the District of Columbia\u0092s Board of Elections and Ethics (BOEE) rejected, for the third time, a request by five D.C. citizens to put the issue of same-sex marriage to a popular vote. If the Board\u0092s decision is upheld by the D.C. Superior Court and appeals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}