Mayor Adrian Fenty has promised to sign the bill, which passed 11-2. Gay couples could begin marrying as early as March. The vote follows a string of recent defeats for similar proposals in Maine, New York and New Jersey.
Alan Turing led the British codebreaking team that broke the German Enigma Code, thereby shortening World War II, saving many lives, and helping the Allies to win the war. Turing is considered the father of computer science.
A year 11 student putting up posters for a gay rights protest at his school has been called a faggot by a teacher and has had his posters ripped down. The student, Jimmy Y from Glen Waverly Secondary College had been putting up posters all week for the upcoming Equal Love Rally , a gay protest for equal rights in Victoria on November 28. According to Jimmy the posters kept getting ripped down. The culprit was finally caught in the school library, and found to be a teacher. When confronted about posters, the teacher (whose real name is ironically Mr Right) turned around and shouted at the student, “Faggot Kid! You don’t know what real marriage is!”
The 2011 census is set to include a compulsory question about civil partnerships as well as asking for explicit details concerning overnight guests, raising concerns that it could forcibly out people. A spokesperson from the Office of National Statistics confirmed that the civil partnership question was mandatory and must be answered honestly.
In a rich irony, the Republican congressman leading the fight to have Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) ousted as chair of the House's top tax-writing body turns out to have ethics problems of his own. Rep. John Carter (R-TX) had nearly $300,000 in unreported profits from oil stock sales in 2006 and 2007, Roll Call reported yesterday. It was Carter who earlier this month introduced the failed resolution to have Rangel removed from his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means committee. Carter told Fox News that Rangel had been getting "special treatment from the IRS," and that his problems were "embarrassing to the Congress."
Republicans. Never met one I liked ...
