For all those of you who were not present at last night’s D.C. City Council hearing on the ‘Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality bill” or for those of you who have not yet caught up on what took place last night, you’ll have a second chance to be in on this historic moment!

As you can see this was a very packed house for the first of two hearings on the marriage equality bill.

Council Member Mendelson has extended the remaining 169 testimony speakers over to a second hearing session on Monday, November 2nd.  A very great amount of the 100 testimonials last night were very supportive of marriage equality! 

Check our calendar page for more info on the second hearing.

For a play-by-play run-down of last night’s hearing, visit Michael Crawford’s Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/dmcrawford.  You can also find information on the City Council web site (including live feeds and video clips).

Also up this week is a faith community celebration of marriage equality–”Soulful Voices”–taking place this Thursday night at Asbury United Methodist Church! See the calendar page for more info.

Hello friends,
 
We are drawing close to the October 22, 20009 deadline to sign up to testify on” Bill 18-482, Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009.”
 
We are poised to change the World with the passage of this legislation in the District!
Yet are work is still cut out for us and we must be vigilant in our efforts to make sure that Marriage Equality becomes a matter of law here in our Nations capital.
 
Please sign up now to testify before the COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND JUDICIARY on October 26, 2009. 
 
Below is text from a flyer that has all the information needed to participate in this action. Please make sure to get it out to as many people as possible.
 
THOSE WHO WISH TO TESTIFY:
Contact legislative Clerk Ms. Deborah Kelly by phone at 202-724-7808, by fax at 202-724-6664 or by e-mail at dkelly@dccouncil.us. Be sure to provide your name, telephone number, organizational affiliation and title (if any) by close of business thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. The Committee will testify continue this hearing at a later date if the number of witnesses exceeds what can be reasonably accommodated in a single day.
Persons wishing to testify are encouraged but not required to submit 15 copies of written testimony by Nov. 9. if submitted by the close of business on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, the testimony will be distributed to councilmembers before the hearing.