Would you like to take the important relationships in your life to a new and deeper level? Then please join us on Saturday, January 30 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. for the REAL Relationship Seminar
(Relationships that are Enduring, Authentic, and
Lasting). This event will be held at the New Hope Family Ministries Learning Center, 7245 Hanover Parkway, Suite A, Greenbelt, MD 20770. Richard Urban, ULTRA Teen Choice co-founder is one of the facilitators. Please call Richard at 202-544-5081 to register, or send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The cost is $20, including lunch, or $10 for students.

Abstinence Awareness Week scheduled for March 6 to March 13

The fifth celebration of Abstinence Awareness Week in Washington DC will be held from March 6 to March 13, 2010. Your school, church, or organization is needed to make this the best and most effective Abstinence Awareness Week yet. Here is a tentative sched-

Youth Forum Panelists at the Abstinence Awareness Week 2009 Youth Forum at Howard University.

ule of events planned so far. Please call Richard at 202-544-5081 to assist or for more information or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.:

DC Judge upholds Election board refusal to let voters vote on definition of marriage

On Thursday, Judge Judith Macaluso upheld the DC Board of Elections refusal to put before DC voters an initiative that defines marriage as being only between a man and a woman. That ruling was immediately appealed to the DC Court of Appeals on January 15. A public hearing had been held by the DC Board of Elections in October on whether or not the bill was a proper subject for an initiative in light of the DC Human Rights Act. The Board of Elections ruled in November that it was not.
At the same time, there will be a hearing before the DC Board of Elections and Ethics on Wednesday, January 27 at 10:30 a.m. at 441 4th St. NW, Rm. 220 South on whether or not a referendum allowing DC voters to approve or reject the law recently passed to allow same sex unions ("marriage") in DC can be put before the voters. Call 202-727-2525 to sign up to testify at that hearing.
A referendum on the law recognizing same sex unions from other states was rejected by the DC Board of Elections in June, after a public hearing was held before the Board of Elections, and the DC Superior Court refused to overturn that decision in a June, 2009 ruling. That law had been introduced in April, 2009 with no public hearing and little discussion under the name "The Jury and Marriage Amendment Act of 2009". That bill was introduced in January, 2009, first voted on by the DC City Council in April, and approved in May.

Use the ULTRA Teen Choice email tool to reach all DC City Council Members and key staff persons: