Posted on 08/12/2008 11:25:33 AM PDT by Publius804
CNSNews.com Dems' New National Platform Opposes Defense of Marriage Act Tuesday, August 12, 2008 By Josiah Ryan, Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) – The 2008 Democratic Party platform draft, which will be submitted to delegates at the Democratic National Convention for approval later this month, expresses opposition to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a federal law that presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he wants to repeal.
“We will enact a comprehensive bipartisan employment non-discrimination act,” says the platform draft. “We oppose the Defense of Marriage Act and all attempts to use this issue to divide us.”
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Good for the Dems! They have been taken over by moonbats and they are grossly overplaying their hands.
Not so many years ago (1996) when the Demagogues were busy pandering to Middle America due to Clintonista mendacity, the DOMA passed with overwhelming support and President Bill Clinton signed it into law.
It should be easy to show how the spineless dishonest Demagouges are pandering again, now to their far-left moonbats who are taking over the party.
So in 1996 it was a great thing for Congress to pass DOMA overwhelmingly, but now in 2008 it is of great importance to suck up to the far-left Moonbats and oppose the DOMA. What a great party!!
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed in 1996:
85-14 in the Senate
342-67 in the House
signed by President Bill Clinton on September 21, 1996.
How is this a surprise? The Democrat party has been the party of sexual activists for years. Conservatives should remember social issues, the military, and taxes. A lot of self styled big “conservative” poobahs want to talk about how the GOP is not much better than Democrats well tell me when the Democrats are going to honor our military by wanting America to win, tell me when they are going to honor traditional families, tell me when they are going to honor God and faith, honor the rights of individuals to keep what they earn? Those are some pretty big differences for me.
Isn’t it a delight but will Conservatives and the GOP take advantage of it? This issue is a big one and could be as big as immigration,security, and energy.
Good - they’re being honest about what they want.
I am so sick of having opinion’s dismissed because they are “divisive”. It is such an illogical argument. Of course everyone could be forced to spout the exact same Communist party line and thereby eliminate “division”, but that would not be freedom nor would it be America.
Ya, I was thinking the same thing. Only 12 years ago, the Marriage Act passed with overwhelming majorities of both Democrats and Republicans. And Bill Clinton signed it.
Only 12 years ago, it was important to explicitly define marriage as 1 man 1 woman in federal law. What has changed? In spite of court rulings forcing 2 states to have homosexual marriage, 48 of the 50 states still recognize 1 man and 1 woman marriage. And 27 out of 50 states have passed state constitutional amendments defining marriage that way.
The Dems. are certainly out of touch with “middle America” on this issue.
Another change in the democrat platform -
a “stronger” support of “abortion rights”.
All women have the right to a legal abortion [on demand]
REGARDLESS OF ABILITY TO PAY.
This means that YOU will be paying to kill babies. YOU.
Your earned wealth, confiscated through the threat of lethal force, will be used to kill the most innocent humans in existance.
Also, gone is the language of “safe, legal, and RARE”.
“We oppose the Defense of Marriage Act and all attempts to use this issue to divide us.”
Isn’t it the gay activists and their allies who are the divisive ones here? There was no controversy or division in America about how to define marriage until they came along and started filing their lawsuits on the subject.
I don’t get this. Those opposed to changing the marriage status quo are the ones who are divisive, according to the gay activists. They act as if there would be no controversy if only those opposed to their agenda would get out of the way.
While polls show Americans are more accepting of domestic partner type laws, most Americans are not there regarding full fledged same-sex marriage rights.
And who exactly is using the Defense of Marriage Act to divide us? Those who oppose repeal of the law simply want the status quo to stand. They don’t hate homosexuals; they simply want marriage to stay the way it is, regardless of what happens with the “gay” rights movement.
Those who oppose repeal of the law actually don’t spend a lot of time thinking about homosexuals. They consider it settled law that should stand.
Please don’t change your mind!
You are right on the mark. Although it’s depressing to see so many Americans lining up to support someone, or someones, who openly support things that two generations ago weren’t even mentioned in polite society certainly makes it a clear cut choice as to the side 2008 voters will be supporting.
Hopefully, conservatives at every level will push ad campaigns that take no prisoners when they describe the differences in the two parties at this point in American history!
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