Shauna Miller

Recent Actions

• Posted Review Period Ends Tonight For Marriage Recognition Bill to DCist
  As City Desk noted last week, D.C. will recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions starting 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, barring any last-ditch appeal today. That’s when the clock runs out on the 30-day congressional review of the marriage recognition bill passed in May by the D.C. Council and signed by Mayor Fenty. The Board of Elections and Ethics recently rejected an attempt led by Maryland Bishop Harry Jackson to put the bill up for...
• Posted Balance Promised for DCPS Summer Reading List to DCist
  Photo by gerdaindc D.C. Public Schools will release its summer reading list for students Friday, and some local librarians have alleged that gay titles under early consideration were removed. D.C. Public Library spokesman George Williams said that books with gay themes were included in the initial round of discussions on the reading lists, which are scaled for pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade. “They were scrutinized along with many other books on the list,” Williams said....
• Posted Faith Leaders Discuss Outreach On D.C. Gay Marriage to DCist
  Groups including Bilerico D.C., The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance, The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club and The Log Cabin Republicans of Metro D.C. sponsored a community forum on gay marriage and the faith community Wednesday night at All Souls Church in Adams Morgan. The panel featured Episcopal priest Rev. Monique Ellison, D.C. For Marriage Chair Michael Crawford and ACLU attorney Sharon McGowan. The forum addressed engaging churches that support gay marriage as well as...
• Posted Fred Phelps & Co. to Picket White House, Look Crazy to DCist
  Fred Phelps Whackadoo Fred Phelps and members of the Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church will make stops in Virginia and the District this morning, picketing Fairfax High School, George Mason University and several embassies before reaching the White House around 11:30 a.m. Gay groups, including Boston-based Driving Equality and Equality Campus Style (which organizes activists from local colleges) have organized a counter-rally and online fundraiser to benefit Gays & Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV). Phelps and...
• Posted Advocates Begin Outreach Strategy On Same-Sex Marriage to DCist
  Photo by Scubaben Volunteers with D.C. for Marriage met at the D.C. Center late last week to outline early strategies for engaging churches, universities and the black community in conversations about gay marriage in anticipation of a bill expected before the D.C. Council later this year. Chair Michael Crawford said the group will do the kind of grassroots bridge-building that many feel California’s “No on 8” campaign lacked. “We need to start having conversations...