Posted on 02/25/2011 8:06:24 AM PST by fwdude
If there is one consolation from yesterday's bombshell on marriage, it's that the President can no longer hide his true agenda. After months of sabotaging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in secret, the administration is finally bringing their attack out into the open. In many ways, the President's order to abandon DOMA in court is only a formality since the White House never truly defended DOMA in the first place. Instead, Justice Department attorneys have put up the weakest of arguments, hoping the court would dismantle the law and give the administration a ruling to hide behind.
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I thought this whole idea was absurd.
If the president backs homosexual marriage, he should come out and say so. What’s with this back door stuff, saying he and the administration feel the law is discriminatory and unconstitutional, and won’t defend it in court? Is all this a smokescreen to clear the way for a judge to impose 50 state homosexual marriage?
In the case of Don’t Ask / Don’t Tell, the president called that legislation bad policy, outdated, discriminatory, etc. and called for a legislative repeal. Why,in this case, didn’t he call for a repeal of the marriage law???
All he’s doing is setting it up so the courts will have an easier time overturing the marriage law.
This is the same Obama who said he believes marriage is between a man and a woman, and as a Christian, he feels there is a moral/religious component to it also.
The continuing "struggle" with his opinion on same-sex "marriage" is an incredible farce. But his relinquishing of the prosecution of the case leaves it open for Congress (how, I'm not sure?) to take over the prosecution, and I know that they will - appointing a legal firm that WILL zealously defend the law. This is much preferable to the "defense" we were getting under Ø.
And, if gay rights and homosexual marriage are the “civil rights” issues of our time, why are so few politicians willing to get out there and say they favor homosexual marriage?
In the civil rights movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s, many politicians got out there and stated they were in favor of doing away with Jim Crow and passing civil rights and voting rights laws.
In the case of same-sex marriage, the strongest voice from public figures on this issue are Hollywood idiots. Many of the Hollywood idiots say they favor homosexual marriage, but very few mainstream politicians do.
The farthest the mainstream politicians go is to say that they oppose discrimination such as found in laws defining marriage. They won’t get out there and say they favor homosexual marriage directly. Why is this, if indeed homosexual marriage is the “civil rights issue of our time”???? Don’t these politicos want to get out front and be remembered for being on the right side of history and all that?
Because it’s a preposterous argument, and deep down most politicians know it.
They are sexual predators, who recruit to expand their numbers!
Turnabout is fairplay.
I don’t think Row v. Wade is constitutional. Let’s have a Republican successor to Øbongo announce that he isn’t going to enforce those provisions.
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