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Obama White House Calls for Repealing Defense of Marriage Act
CNSNews ^ | 1/21/2009 | Matt Cover

Posted on 01/21/2009 8:33:32 AM PST by Pyro7480

President Barack H. Obama is poised to be the most pro-homosexual chief executive in history.

Unveiling his agenda Tuesday on the newly refurbished version of the White House Web site, Obama called for the repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), as well as the extension of more than 1,000 federal marriage benefits and of adoption rights to homosexual couples.

The new administration laid out its plans on the Web site--whitehouse.gov--at 12:01 p.m. EST, during Obama’s swearing-in ceremony.

The site’s “Civil Rights” section lists a number of items long on the homosexual agenda, including expanding federal hate-crimes laws, repealing the ban on homosexuals in the military and extending the definition of workplace discrimination to include sexual orientation.

In the section entitled “Support for the LGBT (Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered) Community,” the Web site says Obama wants full inclusion of homosexual couples under federal law.

“President Obama supports full civil unions that give same-sex couples legal rights and privileges equal to those of married couples,” the Web site says.

“Obama also believes we need to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and enact legislation that would ensure that the 1,100-plus federal legal rights and benefits currently provided on the basis of marital status are extended to same-sex couples.” the Web site says....

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
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To: Pyro7480
More wonderful policy emanating from Washington, DC.

BTW... DC = Dysfunctional Cesspool.

141 posted on 01/21/2009 10:58:12 AM PST by tflabo
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To: rollo tomasi
By the way, Churches were the “center” of the city, working closely with whatever the local government was at the time.

Also marriage was used to cement Empires/Countries (See the marriage of Queen Isabella and Prince Ferdinand) the need for order I guess is foreign to some people. Brave new world indeed, refuse to recognize an ongoing institution designed (Ultimately by God) to offer stability in exchange of “hurting” queers feelings, no thanks.

142 posted on 01/21/2009 10:58:29 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: Pyro7480
I expected this. After all he probably still fondly recalls those trysts with Larry and the choir guys at good ole boy Rev. Jeramiah Wright's church. Also he's an astute little Marxist student, he knows that destroying the moral fiber of a country it very helpful in achieving his goals. What he doesn't know is that his 5 minutes of fame won't last and Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the real scoundrels will soon be gone. It took a Carter to give us a Reagan. History has a way of repeating itself.
143 posted on 01/21/2009 10:59:00 AM PST by mojitojoe ( A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves)
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To: KrisKrinkle
Let me ask you these questions: If (I don't know if your parents are alive or not) one of your parents died and left no will, how can the court judge whether or not you or your surviving parent would get said inheritance if the court is "out of the marriage" business?

Marriage is so woven into human civilization that any attempt to strip it, or construe its definition in such a way as to be foreign to the vast majority of the populous, will end up in the utter destruction of that society.

Also, if the government doesn't recognize marriage, it cannot recognize families. If the government doesn't recognize marriage, it cannot adjudicate insurance payout questions. If the government doesn't recognize marriage, it cannot recognize surviving spouse benefits. If the government doesn't recognize marriage, it doesn't participate in the real world where every culture on earth recognizes the special relationship on earth between a man and a woman (a very small few recognize more than one woman or more than one man but that is so incredibly small). The list goes on and on...

I will go out on a limb here and state the following:

No government has ever existed that has not recognized the special bond of marriage and all that it entitles the man, woman and children to in a court of law in some meaningful way.

The Government of the United States is different in many ways but it builds upon the good things found in past governments one of which is the implicit recognition of marriage and families.

144 posted on 01/21/2009 10:59:16 AM PST by frogjerk (Welcome|Goodbye to|from Free|Fairness Doctrine Republic!)
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To: mojitojoe

We’re kidding ourselves if we think the population today is anything like the population that elected Reagan.


145 posted on 01/21/2009 11:00:57 AM PST by lady lawyer
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To: rollo tomasi

“The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the rules of eternal order and right which heaven itself has ordained”....George Washington....excerpt from 1st inaugural address.


146 posted on 01/21/2009 11:01:03 AM PST by tflabo
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To: Kieri

Speaking of Sen. Byrd, to date no one has been able to explain what made him sick at the luncheon yesterday. But I have my theory.

Sen. Byrd finally realized what all the hubbub is about in this inauguration when President Obama sat down in the BIG chair at the end of the table. You see, the site of the dark-skinned man sitting down there made him throw up a little in his mouth and he HAD to leave!

Just offering a possible answer to the question!


147 posted on 01/21/2009 11:02:19 AM PST by ExTxMarine (For whatsoe'ver their sufferings were before; that change they covet makes them suffer more. -Dryden)
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To: ElectricStrawberry

thought states had voted on this as my state did.

I guess states don’t have their own rights now and all our votes do not count.

sounds to me phony thinks he is Castro or chavez.
4 years of a dictatorship


148 posted on 01/21/2009 11:03:35 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: frogjerk

There is even a higher level of this battle than that to which you refer.

The institution of the family, the first human institution, was ordained by God at Creation.

A Father, a Mother, and children make up a family. And that family is the reflection of our relationship with God. As parents train children, so are the parents “trained” in how to relate to their heavenly Father.

This is the main reason that Satan is using the left, and pushing every policy of the left, that is destructive to the family. And, I assert, EVERY policy of the left is destructive to the family.


149 posted on 01/21/2009 11:06:15 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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150 posted on 01/21/2009 11:12:05 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: AppyPappy

I would think that President Obama, who happens to be spouting MOST of the same rhetoric and “hopeychangey” things that former President Carter did, would have looked into American history and realized that when President Carter started making drastic changes in his first 100 days in office, even his own party (who were in charge at the time) began to turn their backs on his agenda and it didn’t work very well for him (Carter) and was not a very pleasant things for the rest of us either! I am just saying!


151 posted on 01/21/2009 11:15:47 AM PST by ExTxMarine (For whatsoe'ver their sufferings were before; that change they covet makes them suffer more. -Dryden)
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To: Badeye

“I’d say The Messiah didn’t pay much attention to how the last Democrat administration started off, nor what resulted 24 months later - the loss of the House of Representatives for the first time in over 40 years.

Now, if they will only come after our guns.....”

Been there done that already.

Isn’t there a bill by Bobby Rush (D-IL) to take away all the guns?

That plus the bill to repeal Presidential terms limits sure makes for warm fuzzies over the future of freedom in America.

Obama’s plans to destroy traditional marriage as we know it are another example of how radical leftwing he is, and yet how out of step the media is, lying to us about who he is and what he represents.


152 posted on 01/21/2009 11:27:06 AM PST by WOSG (The Barack Era: bailouts, boondoggles, big Government, bad economy.)
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To: WOSG

Yep, and those are the seeds for taking back the House in 2010.

If they don’t do stupid things politically, we won’t get the best chance of winning in 24 months.


153 posted on 01/21/2009 11:29:33 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: muawiyah
“If you want to pursue eliminating government civil registration, then go for it ~ ALL THE WAY!!!”

Actually, what I had in mind was determining any necessity for government involvement in, or in your words civil registration of, marriage and then holding the government to that. Small, limited government and all that stuff :)

Just thinking and seeing what discussion turns up.

154 posted on 01/21/2009 11:29:39 AM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: MrB

correct

as far as I am concerned they should seek mental illness.

Sad part is that they are hoping the ignorant will just ignore it by saying well I know two homo’s and they are nice.

course they might be nice to them but when they are with their own kind then the pervertedness and sick acts go on display, The homo’s are playing these people without a doubt.

There is nothing normal in what they do or their agenda.

Obama has a lot to do and he deals with this first, funny how he kept quiet to the black population about this


155 posted on 01/21/2009 11:30:20 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Savage Beast

Put down the crack pipe.

If you want to get a President to do conservative things, you wont get it from a guy whose friends we Ayers, Wright, and Communist Frank Davis Marshall.


156 posted on 01/21/2009 11:30:28 AM PST by WOSG (The Barack Era: bailouts, boondoggles, big Government, bad economy.)
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To: bvw; utahson

“I sall never again throw away my vote to the “better of two choices”.”

So not only are 3rd party voters self-absorbed and inconsequential, they are into rationalizing away their failure to help USA. Sigh.


157 posted on 01/21/2009 11:36:39 AM PST by WOSG (The Barack Era: bailouts, boondoggles, big Government, bad economy.)
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To: Myrddin
You've stated the precise opposite of what he will do. Destroying America is job one for "the One".

You are exactly right. I always said he has a huge agenda, the writing was on the wall months ago and he will try to make America as we have known it unrecognizable. The big question is will he be allowed to succeed?

158 posted on 01/21/2009 11:37:59 AM PST by mojitojoe ( A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves)
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To: wagglebee

Unfortunately there will be a lot of pinging to do with this fiend in office.


159 posted on 01/21/2009 11:38:16 AM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: gidget7

“Come on, you know marriage isn’t what homosexuals are after by now, don’t you?”

I’m not disagreeing with that but one current major push is on the marriage front with an emphasis on “equal rights”. The equal rights argument is largely a farce as homosexuals have the same right to marry as heterosexuals. Either can marry someone of the opposite sex and neither can marry someone of the same sex. (And often neither gets to marry their first choice :) )

The problem is that by virtue of marriage some people have legal rights that unmarried people (homosexual or heterosexual) do not have. That’s because the government at various levels has provided those legal rights.

Get the government out of marriage as far as possible and the problem goes away or at least is lessened.

I believe the institution/custom of marriage predates and exists independant of government, so what should government involvement be and why?


160 posted on 01/21/2009 11:42:53 AM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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