DC: Gay Marriage Bill Clears Committee; Full Vote December 1

A bill allowing same-sex marriages to be performed in D.C. cleared its first major hurdle Tuesday when a City Council committee voted 4-1 to approve it. The vote by the Committee on Public Safety & Judiciary to pass the bill at a markup hearing came immediately after it voted 4-1 to defeat an amendment that would have allowed people, including private business owners, to refuse to provide goods and services related to a same-sex marriage. The committee vote also came one day after Council member Phil Mendelson (D-At Large), who chairs the committee, released a revised version of the bill that received full support from nearly all other Council members, including gay Council member David Catania (I-At Large), the bill’s author. Full Story from Washington Blade: http://www.washblade.com/2009/11-13/news/localnews/15514.cfm

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