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To other rejected 3Ls, the author offers these words of comfort: "I’m confident we will all land on our feet. And I’m certain that the experience will be an opportunity for us to find strength we didn’t know we...
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty signed the measure approving same-sex marriage last December, but because D.C. is not a state, the law had to go through a 30-day Congressional review. After failed attempts to block the bill in the House and in the courts, the bill officially became law...
Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Timothy P. McCarthy ’93 also said that the fact that D.C. falls under federal jurisdiction could create a problematic situation, but noted that the legalization of same-sex marriage in D.C. was an exciting development.
“Any jurisdiction that extends rights of same-sex couples is really important, a sign of moving in a more progressive direction as a country,” McCarthy said. “As a legal and a moral battle, this ultimately needs to be at the national...
“People will see that the sky isn’t going to fall, that there’s no harm being done,” Eldridge said, stating that D.C. is only the sixth jurisdiction to sanction same-sex marriage. “It’s...