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By Adrienne S. Gaines
Bishop Harry Jackson, chairman of the newly formed Stand 4 Marriage DC Coalition, said attorneys from the Alliance Defense Fund will file an appeal Tuesday or Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court challenging the Board of Elections and Ethics decision not to allow a referendum on same-sex marriage.
The referendum is an attempt to overturn a measure the D.C. City Council passed in May to recognize same-sex marriages performed outside Washington.
In its opinion on Monday, the board cited the 1977 Human Rights Act (HRA), which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. The board said city officials would authorize discrimination if they allowed a referendum on same-sex marriage.
"The Referendum's proposers would, in contravention of the [Human Rights Act], strip same-sex couples of the rights and responsibilities of marriage that they were afforded by virtue of entering into valid marriages elsewhere," the board said in its decision. "Because the Referendum would authorize discrimination prohibited by the HRA, it is not a proper subject for referendum, and may not be accepted by the Board."
Jackson, who is also pastor of Hope Christian Church in suburban Maryland, called the ruling "absurd."
"The real human rights issue at stake in this decision is whether the people of D.C. will be given their right to vote," Jackson said, noting that 30 states have passed constitutional amendments prohibiting gay marriage. "We are not going to sit still for allowing an unelected board of bureaucrats to deny voters their rightful say on this issue and, by their action, allow the institution of marriage to be radically redefined."
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 Eric J. Pryor, a former Wiccan high priest who came to Christ after opposing a highly publicized 1990 spiritual warfare event in San Francisco, died June 7 after being hit by a truck while crossing the street on foot. He was 49.
A funeral service is to be held this week in New York, where Pryor will be buried.
Pryor came to prominence in 1990 when he opposed a "Prayer Breakthrough" event evangelist Larry Lea led in San Francisco around Halloween. After being told that Christians would be attacking homosexuals and pagans, Pryor led 30 Wiccans in cursing Lea and others involved in the prayer service.
The confrontation became the focus of national media attention and made headlines as far as Europe and South Korea. "It was a huge, huge news event," said Jubilee Christian Center pastor Dick Bernal, who participated in the prayer event. "They called it the ‘Holy Wars in San Francisco.'"
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 The teenage grandson of worship leader Ron Kenoly died early Sunday morning after collapsing on a lawn in an Elk Grove, Calif., neighborhood. The cause of death remains unclear.
Elk Grove police said Ronald Tre Kenoly, 14, was walking home from a party when he was confronted and attacked by two unidentified people. Witnesses said the attackers fled after Tre fell onto the lawn at about 12:19 a.m. The teen was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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By Harry R. Jackson
 Late Thursday, U.S. Department of Justice lawyers filed a motion to dismiss a case that challenged the 1996 Federal Defense of Marriage Act often referred to as DOMA.
DOMA currently prevents couples in states that recognize same-sex unions from securing Social Security spousal benefits, filing joint taxes and other federal rights of marriage.
The Justice Department lawyers concluded that giving federal marriage benefits to gays would infringe on the rights of taxpayers in the 30 states that specifically prohibit same-sex marriages.
Naturally, gay activists were upset, apparently angered that they could not just bend the Department of Justice to their will. Perhaps I should not be surprised by their ire. Their greatest allies have been out-of-control courts and runaway legislatures.
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