Photo by qbubbles No surprise here, but the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics has gone ahead and rejected the latest referendum petition on the issue of same-sex marriage. This is the third time the board has ruled that a ballot measure on gay marriage will not be allowed. In an 18-page memorandum (download it here), the board concluded that an effort to suspend the implementation of the Civil Marriage Equality Act until it…

Rev. Anthony Evans It’s admittedly hard to keep track of all the various hearings on possible same-sex marriage ballot measures that have been filed with the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, so you’d be forgiven if you didn’t know there had been another one last week. Luckily, DC Agenda’s Lou Chibbaro, Jr. was there to capture this exchange in all it’s insane glory:Rev. Anthony Evans, associate pastor of D.C.’s Mount Zion Baptist Church…

Photo by Fredo Alvarez It’s like Groundhog Day, but with same-sex marriage in the balance. As GLAA Forum and D.C. Wire noted, today the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics held another hearing on another proposed ballot measure on same-sex marriage in the District. This referendum would allow District voters to decide whether the recently passed law legalizing same-sex marriage should go into effect or not. These hearings are becoming little more than political…

Photo by jsmjr Ahhhh. With D.C.’s same-sex marriage law now before Congress for a cursory 30-day review, we can all sit back and wait for the happy couples to exchange vows, right? Maybe not so much. This week has seen a flurry of activity in the ongoing battle for marriage equality in the District. On Wednesday, Bishop Harry Jackson and his ilk appeared in D.C. Superior Court to request that the city be forced…