Karen Golinski (right) with wife Mary Cunninghis (oh boy!)
(they were married in California when it was legal)
Posted on 07/02/2011 4:34:34 PM PDT by markomalley
In a strongly worded legal brief, the Obama administration has said the federal act that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman was motivated by hostility toward gays and lesbians and is unconstitutional.
The brief was filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco in support of a lesbian federal employee's lawsuit claiming the government wrongly denied health coverage to her same-sex spouse.
The Justice Department says Karen Golinski's suit should not be dismissed because the law under which her spouse was denied benefits — the Defense of Marriage Act — violates the constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
"The official legislative record makes plain that DOMA Section 3 was motivated in large part by animus toward gay and lesbian individuals and their intimate relationships, and Congress identified no other interest that is materially advanced by Section 3," the brief reads, referring to the section in the act that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman.
Though the administration has previously said it will not defend the marriage act, the brief is the first court filing in which it urges the court to find the law unconstitutional, said Tobias Barrington Wolff, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
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May God rebuke and pass judgment upon this State (Gen 19 style) if the voters do not correct their error Nov 6, 2012.
The snow ball is rolling down the hill faster and faster.
God help us!
That’s ok. When President Palin (or Bachmann, West, Cain, etc.) decides not to enforce Roe v Wade, and states begin to enact their own abortion laws (as they are now), we’ll see how much liberals scream.
When morality isn’t pegged to absolutes, you get this crap.
Karen Golinski (right) with wife Mary Cunninghis (oh boy!)
(they were married in California when it was legal)
God will surely judge this nation. It’s only a matter of time.
God has changed so called sexual orientation but the activists don't want to hear about it.
We should expect THIS radical, Leftist Administration to NOT be working against us!?
Wondering when they ever were working for us.
I’m a woman and even I have to ask: Why are there no hot lesbians?
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If the president cannot in good conscience see to it that the laws are faithfully executed he must resign or he is forsworn.
I’m a guy and I just want to know one thing. Which one takes out the garbage?
Funny how real lesbians never look like those on TV or the movies.
They look like the perfect lesbo couple. Relatively unattractive, super smug and will sue the crap out of you if you even look at them wrong.
My son approves. ;-)
I’m a guy and I just want to know one thing. Which one takes out the garbage?
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Oh, that’s obvious. :-)
OK, you lose. I looked her up and she’s not a lesbian. She’s bi. (Read: Greedy)
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