In the five months since they took control of the House, Republicans have banned government-funded abortions in the District, revived a private-school voucher plan and tried — so far unsuccessfully — to end the city’s needle-exchange programs.
Yet despite past efforts, Republicans have not mounted an assault this year on the District’s same-sex marriage law: No bill has been introduced to overturn it, nor has any lawmaker publicly sought support from colleagues for such a measure.
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and other city activists are preemptively lobbying against any efforts to repeal the law. On Tuesday, she criticized Republicans for their efforts to slow the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military. The issue was important, she said in a news release, “considering our determination to preserve our own marriage equality law, which is under attack in the House.”
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Real “conservatives” don’t want Big Government interfering in the private lives of other Americans. Leave marriage alone!