Washington (CNN) -- A lesbian couple together for more than a decade smiled through tears Tuesday as they became the first same-sex couple to marry in the District of Columbia, on the first day such unions are legal in the nation's capital.
Sinjoyla Townsend and Angelisa Young said they had waited years to marry. They were first in line last week to apply for a marriage license at Washington's marriage bureau.
"You are my friend, my partner, my love," Young, 47, told Townsend, 41. "I will love you today, tomorrow and forever."
After the wedding, those present cheered as the two women embraced and cried. They have been together for 12 years and have children, according to biographical information released by the Human Rights Campaign and D.C. Clergy United for Marriage Equality.
The Supreme Court last week rejected a request from a group of Washington residents to keep the law from going into effect. Local courts had previously turned down lawsuits to block it.
Opponents of the law say city residents should have had a chance to vote on the issue before the city council passed it. They hope to force a ballot initiative to overturn the law.
Except them. Civil rights should never be put up to vote.
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Washington (CNN) -- A lesbian couple together for more than a decade smiled through tears Tuesday as they became the first same-sex couple to marry in the District of Columbia, on the first day such unions are legal in the nation's capital.
Sinjoyla Townsend and Angelisa Young said they had waited years to marry. They were first in line last week to apply for a marriage license at Washington's marriage bureau.
"You are my friend, my partner, my love," Young, 47, told Townsend, 41. "I will love you today, tomorrow and forever."
After the wedding, those present cheered as the two women embraced and cried. They have been together for 12 years and have children, according to biographical information released by the Human Rights Campaign and D.C. Clergy United for Marriage Equality.
The Supreme Court last week rejected a request from a group of Washington residents to keep the law from going into effect. Local courts had previously turned down lawsuits to block it.
Opponents of the law say city residents should have had a chance to vote on the issue before the city council passed it. They hope to force a ballot initiative to overturn the law.
Except them. Civil rights should never be put up to vote.
Accept them? I try not to be pedantic, but I was confused on your position for a moment.
The important thing for same sex couples to do, is what they did. Turn out by the score to be wed, when they are allowed to, for it sends the message. We must exercise our rights, before they atrophy.
(I must ask, why are the threesome emoticons limited to 2 women 1 man and 2 men 1 woman, when obviously we could have 3 men{weee} and 3 woman{...eww} threesome emoticons)
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The Supreme Court last week rejected a request from a group of Washington residents to keep the law from going into effect. Local courts had previously turned down lawsuits to block it.
Opponents of the law say city residents should have had a chance to vote on the issue before the city council passed it. They hope to force a ballot initiative to overturn the law.
Except them. Civil rights should never be put up to vote.
Accept them? I try not to be pedantic, but I was confused on your position for a moment.
The important thing for same sex couples to do, is what they did. Turn out by the score to be wed, when they are allowed to, for it sends the message. We must exercise our rights, before they atrophy.
ohm, I think she meant... “Except [for] Civil rights, [they] should never be put up to vote”
*since doing so would completely negate the concept of Civil Rights: whose purpose in a democracy is to ensure rights of the minority are not infringed on by the the ‘tyranny of the majority’.
Fromthehills wrote:
Accept them? I try not to be pedantic, but I was confused on your position for a moment.
The important thing for same sex couples to do, is what they did. Turn out by the score to be wed, when they are allowed to, for it sends the message. We must exercise our rights, before they atrophy.
I said "except" not "accept."
I was referring too this-
To DC!
but not including the fundies, who think civil rights should be put up to vote. They do not get the " " they can go fuck off.
As an American, I for one think that giving form to the concept of Civil Rights is worth the sacrifice. What's one city? We'll rebuild, and God will get over it- He always does.
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to go on
You know you love it you dirty bitch!