I do believe that you can obtain your goals without same-sex marriage and I will work on the problem. We should give full faith and credit to this law as we do other laws. The best interest of the child should continue to be the test. Domestic partnership is a family union and each person should be covered under the family plan. There may be a way to get around Congress, if we put our mind to it and I will work to do just that.
Health benefits are too important to ignore.
As a member of the Committee on Government Operations, you would have oversight responsibilities for enforcement of the D.C. Human Rights Law of 1977. I do however agree with you that the Human Rights Law must be enforced as all of our laws. I will work to adequately staff and fund the agency to do its job well. Regardless of one's personal feelings or phobias, the law prohibits discrimination. Yes, discrimination is wrong regardless of who practices it.