Obama Announces Plans to Repeal Defense of Marriage Act

Gawker | Monday, May 14, 2012 | Louis Peitzman

[kristinn]

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You spoke too soon, Rand Paul. It sounds like the President's views on marriage just got even gayer.

Somewhat buried in CNN's story on Barack Obama's fundraiser in New York is this little tidbit about his administration's plans for marriage equality—

He also outlined goals he hopes to accomplish under a second term, including the repeal of the Defense Of Marriage Act, which the administration has already stopped defending.

This is the first time Obama has said that he wil actively work to repeal the law.

At the fundraiser, hosted by openly gay pop star Ricky Martin, Obama called same-sex marriage the "right thing to do." He also said that contrary to what many rightwing pundits have alleged, marriage equality will help families.

[a fool in paradise]

A couple generations of children being molested by their same-sex teachers and scoutmasters and being told that it was a “rite of passage” and eventually there will be an upheaval to lock up all of those who imposed the sex positive agenda on the nation.

There is no consent from a child to be adopted into a same sex couple household.

There is no consent when partners are under the age of consent and their seducers are experienced predators.

Obama’s safe school czar knows they are molested but the book he pimped cast it as having someone who “knew more” opening the door to the world they SHOULD have been in all along.

As the Gaystapo get comfortable in their newfound positions of power and influence, they will also get sloppy and leave a trail of human debris. As those kids who are impacted grow up, they will eventually come to resent what this generation did to them and their kids.

The change won’t come overnight, but the pendulum will swing back and hard someday.

[Marathoner]

I swear, if this election was between Obama and Satan I’d have to flip a coin.

[a fool in paradise]

Once upon a time, public schools promoted shared American values with bible reading, prayers, and moralistic lessons of the sort found in the McGuffey Readers. Now they promote "tolerance" and "diversity" non-stop, even to the exclusion of reading, writing and arithmetic. Is it any wonder the kids come out stupid and amoral?

The liberal loons have been pushing sex positive teaching for 40+ years. It comes as no surprise that generations raised on the concept that everyone should be sexually active at every age with no moral judgments over ANY sexual pairings would eventually slouch into accepting the hedonism that educators and so-called health professionals pushed on them.

They are "amoral" because that is the new morality that the schools deliberately pushed when they cast out Judeo-Christian concepts in the 1960s. I loathe Socialists and their red diaper doper baby teachings.

[Kickass Conservative]

Obama said that Gay Marriage is a States Rights issue.

Is he now saying that ONE STATE can dictate to the other FORTYNINE STATES that they must support Gay Marriage as well? Does this also mean that States with Laws against Siblings and First Cousins Marrying will have those Laws overthrown as well? How about Polygamy amongst consenting Adults. Where exactly does this madness end?

[DoctorBulldog]

“Of course he likes gays, as long as they serve him.”

Then, he has them killed...

Cheers

[DoctorBulldog]

“I swear, if this election was between Obama and Satan I’d have to flip a coin.”

I’d vote for Satan; at least he can’t do anything without God’s permission.

Cheers

[AmericanInTokyo]

We are under full attack.

The question is in the tactics on how to reply.

They may want us to go for this bait, thinking we are "reactionary" rather than "tactical". I cannot stand this like the next (conservative) guy or gal, but Obongo's main Achilles Heel remains the REPREHENSIBLE ECONOMY AND JOBS. If we center in on that and defeat him, we can then begin to roll back all this DOMA-overturn crap and other assorted phagotry creep he is pushing with extreme urgency.

I think we can hit them where they dont want to be hit. Not in the American People's underwear, but in their pocketbooks, purses, and wallets. I think I know what they are up to. Head fake. Change the topic.

[newzjunkey]

Even the blind saw this one coming.

[Tzimisce]

He’s going to repeal it eh?

Good luck with that.

[dead]

He's got to prove his gay boner fides to those activists who still doubt.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

This is neat. Now all those skin-headed paramilitary policemen can get married. No stopping them now.

[liberalism is suicide]

The “closet” isn’t enough—they ought to leave the House.

[Cheerio]

He’s going to repeal it eh? Good luck with that.

Well, he knows the Congress is no impediment to his Executive Orders. He will indeedie just pronounce that he has repealed DOMA and dare the Congress to do anything about it. IMHO Congress gave up its right to do anything against this guys many many many months ago. IMPEACHMENT ARTICLES SHOULD HAVE BEEN DRAWN UP A LONG TIME AGO. But no, Republicans want to compromise so they can keep their seats and chairmanships.

The form of Government America has utilized for 230+ years no longer works - the population has had their votes purchased with goodies from the public treasury and our Congressional representatives only care about their next election. So how does this get changed without "pitch forks"? I thought there would have been a PEOPLES march on the District of Corruption after the jam down of Obamacare. But no one had the time to tear themselves away from the circuses on that little 19" peephole into paradise.

[Nowhere Man]

I swear, if this election was between Obama and Satan I’d have to flip a coin.

It would be like comparing a Chevy Blazer to a GMC Jimmy, both are cut from the same cloth, however, one is the useful idiot for the other. We got Baby Doc in the White Hut.

[Nowhere Man]

Is he now saying that ONE STATE can dictate to the other FORTYNINE STATES that they must support Gay Marriage as well? Does this also mean that States with Laws against Siblings and First Cousins Marrying will have those Laws overthrown as well? How about Polygamy amongst consenting Adults. Where exactly does this madness end?

Well, under our legal system, it is a States rights issue, it is up to the people of each State to decide. Myself I don't care what people do in private as log as they take responsibility for their actions and consequences thereof. I do understand the slippery slope here, I mean if you extend and redefine marriage at the desire of another group then how can you turn down others such as polygamists, people who want to marry animals, inanimate objects, themselves, etc. I can understand us losing a few states, some might get out of marriage entirely and so on, well, that is under our system in a legal sense. If you want to put a stop to this nationally and once and for all, we can do like the Serbians and Russians did where they amended their constitutions to define marriage as one man, one woman.

I just don't like it forced on us from the top and/or voted in to pacify them.

What I bemoan is the death of common knowledge and sense hoisted on the petard or political correctness. Back 20, 30, 40, 50 plus years ago, when you thin marriage, you think man and woman.

I have a couple of gay friends who consider themselves married. Deep down inside, if that's what they want to think, so be it, even if they want, draw up an agreement for a civil union, but don't force the marriage thing down our throats. If they want to change things, there is the process available although it is just as available to us to stop them. Again, we might end up having a mosiac of differing standards in each State so I guess we'd have to live in a State closest to our views.

Mark Davis on Rush made a good point where if this is accepted in all 50 States, then the differences between male and female will be nothing and we could see things like women getting drafted and so on.

I don't care what gays do as long as it is private, they have every right to pursue the American Dream too as they see fit but it should not be forced down our throats either. This is one barrel of monkeys that needed to remain closed.

[Jeff Head]

Keep it coming, Barry. You are digging your own pit and you're going to fall headlong into it politically.

Clearly, witht he ready-made news reports, the ready-made baby T-shirts, htese ready made announcements...yor entire "evolution" had nothing to do with reasoning or coming to a moral conclusion (which it is not anyway), but everything to do with soaking the gays for more money (which had dried up) and trying to solidify your corrupt, perverse base.

And we all know it...and it's going to cost you. Both in independents, but also in Black and Latinos who will not follow where you want them to go. One of their favorie scriptire, at least in my experience growing up down South, is this one from Joshua:

"Choose ye this day whom ye will serve. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

A lot fo theolder ones made that decision a long time ago and will be true to it. They'll either sit out, or they will vote against you.

Instead of 95% I bet you do not clear 90% this election...and on far less numbers.

THE MAN WHO DESPISES AMERICA

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY

[A Navy Vet]

"The gay community wants to be accepted as “normal” so badly . It’s never going to happen no matter how hard they try."

With respect, I believe you to be wrong. The homosexual community is already accepted as the "norm". It permeates every aspect of our media/culture and has for decades. They finally got what they wanted. Not just tolerance (which I was okay with), but acceptance as a normal way of life (which I'm not).

There is no going back. The same as the "gimmes" will never give up their "bambi stash", as they think of it. The USA and other nations (think Greece, Spain, et al) are on the cusp of losing the greatest societal experiment this rock ever saw.

I will say once again as I have on so many threads. Since the Colonial (British subjects) revolution against the tyrant King George, and our individual States coming together to form a more "perfect union", the socialists are winning to take down such wonderful example of liberty and free enterprise. Those bleeding hearts have NO idea what it takes to maintain either a free country and even less to maintain an economic principle that creates opportunity.

The American experiment of a new found republic back when provided the template for countless countries becoming free nations. We were the originals; we fought against a larger power for liberty; we set the example for the world. There would not be as many self-determined nations if not for us. Now they shit on us.

We've also given our blood and treasure to defend such liberties, only for so many nations to forget our example.

I am sad that the world has forgotten what the USA did for all. I'm ready to pull up the drawbridge and tell them to fend for themselves. If the bad guys build alliances against us and threaten our way of life, I say NUKE them ASAP! I don't give one crap about collateral damage - think Dresdan and Hiroshima. Better their people die than our women and children.

I'm done with ungrateful and crappy totalitarian leadership, as I am with punks in hoodies who mug, and rob, and invade homes, and murder and rape and assault. Kill them dead so us peace loving people can live in a free nation.

[Jeff Head]

Amen to every bit of that. BZ.