If you've been following the saga of the gay marriage bill in the D.C. Council (which I realize is unlikely unless you're (like me) a politics junkie or (also like me) from D.C.), you may have heard that there was an effort (led, somewhat confusingly, by a pastor from Maryland) to take the question out of the hands of the council and to put it to a Maine-esque referendum. As we've seen, the lot of a civil rights bill in the hands of The People ™ is not an 'appy one. Therefore, I was delighted to learn (from my mother, actually, who's still in D.C.) that the Board of Ethics and Elections (not sure of the actual name, but it's something like that) ruled today that it is against District law to put civil rights to a vote, so the referendum will NOT be going ahead. 
This doesn't exactly affect me, as a transsexual lesbian to whom the prospect of marriage, and certainly marriage in D.C., seems remote, but I'm delighted to see that my semi-home has decided that marriage equality matters enough to fight for it.  Now on to the next battle, whatever it may be.
-Anne 

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