"The demons has showed up!" (a whackjob at the marriage equality hearing)

Metro Weekly reports on yesterday's marathon D.C. Council hearing on the marriage equality bill:

A majority of the testimonies were touching, pro-marriage equality stories from citizens, activists, and other local religious and political figures -- both gay and straight. However, some of the testimony came with arguments from the Catholic Archdiocese and other socially conservative religious perspectives. Others used the argument that the citizens deserve the right to vote on whether gays deserve equal civil marriage rights.

MW also provides a video of possibly the wackiest moment from the hearing, provided by the last witness, Ernestine Copeland:

Comments

[Craig Howell]

What a fruitcake! She wasn't even on the list of 100 witnesses who were scheduled to testify yesterday, so Phil must have thought he was doing her a favor by adding her on. No good deed goes unpunished! But props to him for winding up the hearing by 11 p.m., pretty much as predicted earlier in the day.