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Obama Announces Plans to Repeal Defense of Marriage Act
Gawker | Monday, May 14, 2012 | Louis Peitzman

Posted on 05/14/2012 6:18:28 PM PDT by kristinn

Source link. Click at your own risk.

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.


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My apologies for the source, but they are the only one leading with this and it's a clean report, surprisingly for them.
1 posted on 05/14/2012 6:18:37 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

I saw this coming.


2 posted on 05/14/2012 6:21:25 PM PDT by left that other site
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To: kristinn

Same sex marriage is not the “right thing to do” it is clearly the wrong thing to do.


3 posted on 05/14/2012 6:22:16 PM PDT by ransacked
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To: kristinn

http://www.stripes.com/news/gay-rights-conference-shifts-focus-to-military-families-benefits-1.177196

mentioned here also.


4 posted on 05/14/2012 6:23:11 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: kristinn

The House should have convened Impeachment hearings 5 minutes after Obama announced he wouldn’t defend DOMA. It’s a clear violation of the Oath of Office.


5 posted on 05/14/2012 6:24:40 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer, but when it is, it is the only answer.)
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To: kristinn

Good Grief..Let Us Evict This Obamanation.


6 posted on 05/14/2012 6:25:59 PM PDT by MEG33 (O Lord, Guide Our Nation)
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Just hours before, in an interview taped for broadcast tomorrow on The View, Obama dodge a question about repealing DOMA:

Just days after affirming his support for same-sex marriage, President Obama Monday declined to say whether he would go a step further and publicly take up the fight to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

While the administration has already stopped defending legal challenges to the legislation, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman, the president said the rest is up to Capitol Hill.

“Congress is clearly on notice that I think it’s a bad idea,” the president said in an interview on ABC’s The View.

SNIP

7 posted on 05/14/2012 6:27:44 PM PDT by kristinn (Dump the Chump in 2012)
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To: kristinn

A couple of FReepers called it earlier today on a different thread.

Consider me unsurprised.


8 posted on 05/14/2012 6:30:30 PM PDT by wastedyears ("God? I didn't know he was signed onto the system.")
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To: ransacked

As the citizens in 31 states have declared. Gay marriage is just wrong no matter how the bullies try to demonize the vast majority that are against it. The gay community wants to be accepted as “normal” so badly . It’s never going to happen no matter how hard they try.


9 posted on 05/14/2012 6:31:17 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: Jet Jaguar

Thanks for posting that link.


10 posted on 05/14/2012 6:32:50 PM PDT by kristinn (Dump the Chump in 2012)
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To: wastedyears

Let him keep talking. I have a hunch that a large majority of Americans are opposed to this-—and that obammy now stands a bigger chance of losing his election............

(At least, that’s what I hope....)


11 posted on 05/14/2012 6:33:21 PM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: kristinn

He’s really going all out for the show tune vote.


12 posted on 05/14/2012 6:35:32 PM PDT by Redcloak (Mitt Romney: Puttin' the "Country club" back in "Republican".)
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To: kristinn

The Democrats want to first molest the minds of children and then molest their bodies later.

People just don’t want to pay public welfare benefits for two lunatics sodding off all day.

Muslims would just kill homosexuals.

Taking into consideration broken clocks tell the correct time twice each day, maybe “spread the other cheek” is not a good public policy.

In your unabridged Oxford Dictionaries, the word “faggotry” denotes the bundling of steel to be hammered or rolled together.

Mammalian evolution is entirely heterosexual.

Monogamy is not required for evolution, monogamy is a tenet of religion.

To prohibit polyandry and polygyny is an ecclesiastic rule of law.

To establish an ecclesiastic standard of monogamy for homosexuals is nothing but RELIGIOUS FAGGOTRY.

Democrats live in a fantasy world where fairies wave magic wands over their anus and babies materialize out of thin air.

All men are born of a woman.

If you have to tell grown men that babies will not come out of their rectums, there is no hope for any rational discourse...


13 posted on 05/14/2012 6:38:25 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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gayer and gayer

Next NEWSWEEK cover could be “The Gay Doubledown”


14 posted on 05/14/2012 6:41:36 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: kristinn

The entire Democrat party has just “come out of the closet”.


15 posted on 05/14/2012 6:42:18 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA (Pick Your Poison)
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Click

16 posted on 05/14/2012 6:42:48 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
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To: kristinn

I don’t think this emphasis on gay marriage is helping Obama at all, and I hope he and his media friends keep it up.


17 posted on 05/14/2012 6:44:41 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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To: ransacked

>Same sex marriage is not the “right
>thing to do” it is clearly the wrong thing to do.

I agree with you. The problem is that the “younglings” just don’t see the danger that you and I do. The under 30 crowd has no issues with gay marriage (it’s like 80/20). If we don’t change that, it’s all over in 15-20 years as the older generations find their reward and “younglings” age into the majority.

And, of course, to the victors goes the right to write history. I suspect that not only we will lose this fight if we can’t turn things around (and fast) but we will be vilified in the history books.


18 posted on 05/14/2012 6:45:40 PM PDT by BlueLandRed
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To: Lurker

Boehner doesn’t want to offend the Beltway elite by upholding his oath to defend the Constitution against Obama’s abuse of power.


19 posted on 05/14/2012 6:45:57 PM PDT by kristinn (Dump the Chump in 2012)
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Well if this is such a great idea he should just do it now instead of waiting for a 2nd term. He is a liar and if he does get reelected I do not think he will get congress to repeal DOMA, he is just saying he will to get the votes. I know some people think he is gay but I don't think he
likes gay people it is just an act for him. I think he despises gay people and is playing to their own perceived vulnerabilities.
20 posted on 05/14/2012 6:47:55 PM PDT by funfan
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