Posted on 02/24/2011 4:34:55 PM PST by lancer256
President Obama's brazenly calculated move to unilaterally abandon the federal Defense of Marriage Act showcases his attitude that he is above the law.
DOMA defines marriage as "only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife" for purposes of all federal laws, rules and regulations (Section 3). It specifies that no state shall be required to honor laws of other states that treat same-sex relationships as legal marriages -- effectively carving out an exception to the Constitution's full faith and credit clause (Section 2).
Congress passed this law by enormous majorities (Senate 85-14, House 342-67) in response to political pressure in some states to redefine marriage, especially a Hawaiian court's decision suggesting the Hawaii Constitution conferred the right to same-sex marriage. Congress was worried that, among other things, same-sex couples living in other states might go to Hawaii to marry and demand that their home states recognize their marriages.
It seems that in enacting this law, the federal government was quite scrupulous in deferring to the sovereignty of the states by pronouncing a federal standard for marriage applicable to federal laws but not presuming to encroach on states' authority to set their own standards. It affirmed the states' prerogative by providing that their marriage laws would not be abrogated or diminished by conflicting laws of other states but did not preclude them from honoring, if they so choose, laws of other states validating same-sex marriages.
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So far he is getting away with it.
Who is going to hold this man accountable? WHO? What he has done to this nation is unconscionable.
Boy oh Boy, the dick-tater 0dumbo should be tried for treason for overstepping his role.
As my friend keeps telling me, “Buy ammo ‘cause our Country will be coming to a head soon...”
bttt
This is a straight-up violation of Obama’s presidential oath. It’s impeachment material. If the relevant congressional committee fails to hold televised hearings with administration officials — complete with brass knuckles — then they aren’t doing their jobs either. Heads should roll, beginning with the A-G.
I disagree.
Only God. Impeachment lost its immediate threat in the modern era when Billy Jeff and his puppets in the Senate made a mockery of it.
It will never be attempted again against a Democrat.
We have an emperor.
Strange. I remember quite clearly during his campaign Obama saying in one of his speeches, “we are a nation of laws”. He just didn’t bother to let everybody know he would be making up the laws as he goes, and enforce only the ones he darn well wants to.
The heavy metal band, Anthrax, has a song called, “I Am The Law.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ZuSM_UfJo
I Am The Law
by Anthrax
1986 album “Among The Living”
lyrics:
Fifteen years in the academy
He was like no cadet they’d ever seen
A man so hard, his veins bleed ice
And when he speaks he never says it twice
They call him judge, his last name is dredd
So break the law, and you wind up dead
Truth and justice are what hes fighting for
Judge dredd the man, he is the law
Drokk it!
With gun and bike he rules the streets
And every perp he meets will taste defeat
Not even death can overcome his might
Cause dredd and anderson, they won the fight
When the sovs started the apocalypse war
Mega-city was bombed to the floor
Dredd resisted, and the judges fought back
Crushed the sovs with their counter-attack
Drokk it!
Respect the badge - he earned it with his blood
Fear the gun - your sentence may be death because...
Chorus:
I am the law!
And you won’t f-— around no more - I am the law
I judge the rich, I judge the poor - I am the law
Commit a crime I’ll lock the door - I am the law
Because in mega-city... I am the law
In the cursed earth where mutants dwell
There is no law, just a living hell
Anarchy and chaos as the blood runs red
But this would change if it was up to dredd
The book of law is the Bible to him
And any crime committed is a sin
He keeps the peace with his law-giver
Judge, jury, and executioner
Drokk it!
Crime - the ultimate sin
Your iso-cube is waiting when he brings you in
Law - its what he stands for
Crimes his only enemy and hes going to war
Crime - the ultimate sin
Your iso-cube is waiting when he brings you in
Law - its what he stands for
Crimes his only enemy and he’s going to war
I told my guys at work today that we officially live in a dictatorship now and are directed by the law of men instead of the rule of law.
He also enforces laws that have never been passed.
Kind of makes W and Jeb Bush look retarded for letting the evil degenerate sons of bitches starve Terry Schiavo to death.
As I told Tammy Bruce earlier, I don't know what is worse - all that Urkel will have done by November 2012, or the fact that at least 45 % of the American People WILL vote for four more years of it.
Pray that those 45% receive a revelation between now and then. Pray also that the usurper is shown to be ineligible for the office.
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