Council of the District of Columbia Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary Notice of Public Hearing 1350 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004 10.26.09 COUNCILMEMBER PHIL MENDELSON, CHAIRPERSON COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE JUDICIARY ANNOUNCES A PUBLIC HEARING on Bill 18-482, Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009 on Monday, October 26, 2009 3:30 p.m., 5 th Floor Council Chambers, John A. Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004 *Due to the large number of witnesses, testimony will be limited to three (3) minutes per person. The hearing will be continued to 9:30 a.m. November 2, 2009 beginning with witness number 101. Witness List 1. Bob Summersgill Public Witness 2. Rick Rosendall Vice President for Political Affairs, Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance, Washington, DC 3. Nick McCoy Organizer, Human Rights Campaign 4. Geraldine Washington Public Witness 5. Carolyn C. Steptoe Commissioner, ANC 5A07 6. Robert Vinson Brannum Public Witness 7. Robert Bob King Commissioner, ANC 5A12 8. Kathryn A. Pearson-West Public Witness 9. Sultan Shakir Regional Field Director, Human Rights Campaign 10. Janae Grant Commissioner, ANC 5A11 1
11. Robert Hardies Sr. Minister, All Souls Church, Unitarian; Co-Chair, DC Clergy United for Marriage Equality 12. Jay Fisette Vice Chairman, Arlington County Board 13. Harry Jackson, Jr. Chairman, Stand4Marriage DC; Bishop, Hope Christian Church 14. Aisha C. Mills Campaign for All DC Families 15. Tim Mahony Vice President of Legislative and Political Affairs, Gertrude Stein Democratic Club 16. Fred Scherlinder Dobb Rabbi, Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation 17. Elaine Kelly Public Witness 18. Rev. Dr. Mari Castellanos United Church of Christ 19. Kesh Ladduwahetty Chair, DC for Democracy 20. Rev. Susan Hayward First Congregational United Church of Christ of Washington DC 21. Rev. Dr. Dennis W. Wiley Pastor, Covenant Baptist Church 22. Julie Verratti Public Witness 23. Shana McDavis-Conway Public Witness 24. Marisa Levy Public Witness 25. Craig Howell Public Witness 26. Peter Rosenstein Public Witness 27. Rev. Dyan McCray Reverend and Founding Pastor, Unity Fellowship Church of Washington, DC 28. Tony Wagner Public Witness 29. Rev. Ronald Hopson, Ph.D. Reverend and Adjunct Pastor, First Congregational UCC Church 2
30. Terry McGuire Regional Field Organizer, Human Rights Campaign 31. Barbara Helmick DC for Marriage 32. Adam Bink Public Witness 33. Andy Litsky Chairman, ANC 6D 34. David Meadows Executive Director, DC Democratic Party 35. Michelle Zavos Public Witness 36. Clarence E. Brown III Public Witness 37. Michael Jose Torra Public Witness 38. Benjamin Thomas Public Witness 39. Sara Liles Public Witness 40. Rev. Paul Roberts Abernathy Reverend and Rector, St. Mark s Episcopal Church 41. Tammy Seltzer Public Witness 42. Edward S. Grandis Public Witness 43. Juan Dario Campos Rondo Public Witness 44. Phillip Pannell DC Coalition of Black Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders 45. Rev. Charles Arehart Metropolitan Community Church of Washington 46. Thomas M. Smith Chair, Ward 3 Democratic Committee 47. Isaiah J. Poole Public Witness 48. Nancy D. Polikoff Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University 49. Michael V. Sosso Public Witness 50. Brian W. Campbell Public Witness 3
51. Peter Montgomery Senior Fellow, People for the American Way Foundation 52. Charles Anderson Public Witness 53. Eric Emerick Public Witness 54. ABilly S. Jones-Hennin Public Witness 55. Richard J. Slyvester Assumption Catholic Church 56. Jane Lincoln Public Witness 57. John Wimberly President, American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation s Capital 58. Myra Diggs Public Witness 59. Martha Solt The Friends Meeting of Washington 60. George Slaughter Public Witness 61. Terry Chasteen Board of Directors, Team DC 62. Jessica Katz Public Witness 63. Elizabeth Kenney Public Witness 64. Gary Duke Public Witness 65. John R. Ogden Public Witness 66. David Sobelsohn Commissioner, ANC 6D02 67. Steven Delaney Bishop, American Apostolic Church 68. Michael Crawford DC4Marriage 69. Rev. Amanda Poppei Washington Ethical Society 70. Joseph Palacios Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies, Georgetown University 71. DeWayne L. Davis Metropolitan Community Church 72. Patrick D. Mara Executive Committee Member, DC GOP 4
73. Raymond Blanks The Gerasene Group 74. Rev. Dean Snyder Foundry United Methodist Church 75. Andrea Hughes Public Witness 76. John Klenert Board of Directors, DC Vote 77. Clark Ray Public Witness 78. Albrette Ransom Public Witness 79. Genna Henry Public Witness 80. Mikel-Meredith Weidman Public Witness 81. Jeremy Pittman Public Witness 82. Bob Villaflor Public Witness 83. Brittain Villaflor Public Witness 84. Marion Johnson Public Witness 85. Kathryn Taylor Public Witness 86. Rebekah DeHaven Human Rights Campaign 87. Emilie Adams Human Rights Campaign 88. Most Rev. Martin Holley Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of Washington 89. Jane Golden-Belford Chancellor and General Counsel, Archdiocese of Washington 90. Edward Orzechowski Chief Executive Officer and President Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington 91. Emmet Flood Partner, Williams and Connolly, LLP 92. Robert Falk General Counsel, Human Rights Campaign 93. Hilary Treat Public Witness 5
94. Jesse Lovell DC for Democracy 95. Shawn Catherine Fisher Public Witness 96. Amy Hinze-Pifer Public Witness 97. Chris Collins Vice President and Director, Public Policy, The Foundation for AIDS Research 98. Joseph Towery Public Witness 99. Lane Hudson Public Witness 100. Dan Wedderburn Public Witness 6