Adam Serwer on the philandering D.C. mayor’s crusade against gay marriage:
In early may, after the District of Columbia Council announced it would recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, former Mayor and current Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry addressed a small crowd of protesters in Freedom Plaza.
“I am a politician who is moral,” Barry declared. “Living morally means standing on the moral compass of God.”
Some local residents were understandably shocked by his statements, perhaps wondering how Barry’s moral compass had become so demagnetized that it pointed him toward four divorces and a dramatic arrest for smoking crack cocaine with an undercover cop he thought was a prostitute.