“Voter containers” were brought directly to senior buildings, allowing residents to cast ballots without leaving their homes.

For a cause that has been dealt a lot of setbacks, I’ll give local opponents of same-sex marriage this much — they’re fired up and optimistic that somehow, they’ll win in the end.

Photo by geraintwn While the D.C. Council waits to vote a second time on legalizing same-sex marriage in the District, one local official is taking it upon himself to try and rally the opposition on Capitol Hill. Bob King, a longtime ANC Commissioner from Ward 5 and proponent of a popular vote on same-sex marriage, sent all 535 members of Congress a letter late last week requesting that they step into the debate and…

ANC 5A Commissioner Bob King sent out a press release earlier this week encouraging the public, and especially his fellow ANC commissioners, to sign on to a same-sex marriage ballot initiative. The move is an effort to preempt a bill expected from the D.C. Council on the subject later this year. In a statement in favor of a popular vote on marriage equality, King argues that “the issue of same-sex marriage is the most contentious…