Obama Justice Department — Gingerly, This Time — Files Brief Against Same Sex Marriage

Strange what happen late on Friday, innit?

Flip Flop,Flip Flop,who knows what the heck is going on,is Obama for Queens or Not?from jacks to queens,who cares,why waste the tax payers money?

“Married same-sex couples are being treated differently from other married couples. To us, that’s a clear-cut violation of the promise of equal protection.”
Is it just me or is there a question being begged somewhere in that comment?

This President has spun soooo much
cotton candy, he can’t remember what
his “core values” are. Maybe there
aren’t any.

“Is it just me or is there a question being begged somewhere in that comment?”
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Civil rights and equality is protection under the law and a legal matter for all citizens. It is not what you, or the Christians or the Taliban happen to believe.

Obama was initially correct. As a progressive, there are still some lines we should never cross. I don’t believe for a minute that Obama, a married father of two girls, truly favors gay marriage. Abortion on the other hand is a different story with him. Nevertheless, in other areas like gay marriage, he seems like more of a traditional man at heart. I believe he just simply caved to a small number of radicals in our Democratic Party.
Honestly, just because it is ‘mutual’ between couples doesn’t qualify it as a socially acceptable lifestyle. There’s no debating it. I’ll repeat this to guys and girls cohabitating outside of marriage too. None of these exemplify the nobility of our humanity. This issue is really not about legal ‘rights’ but about right vs. wrong and testing society’s will to continue seeing itself in the light of natural law.
After nearly a dozen states voting on defending traditional marriage, repealing DOMA could very well backfire on the President.
In Mississippi, traditional marriage was approved by 86 percent majority. Other state votes registered similar wide margins: Nevada (70 percent), Arkansas (75 percent), Georgia (77 percent), Kentucky (75 percent), Louisiana (78 percent), Nebraska (70 percent), Missouri (71 percent), Montana (66 percent), North Dakota (73 percent), Ohio (62 percent), Michigan (59 percent), Oklahoma (76 percent), Utah (66 percent), Kansas (70 percent) and Texas (75 percent).
Even states considered to be more liberal voted for traditional marriage, including Hawaii (69 percent), Alaska (68 percent) and Oregon (57 percent).
(Source: CNN October 20, 2006)
In November of the same year 7 more states adopted such an amendment: Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin.

With Barry you never know..depends on which way the wind is blowing that day ..or what particular audience he is addressing. Most Muslims however are not in favor of gays but they will have sex with them if they are not exposed.

DOMA is law. The law needs to be repealed. Get Congress to do just that. Put the pressure on Congress. Meanwhile the justice dept. has to deal with it as law.
Write Congress to repeal it. They are the ones who can legally do something about it.

Call it garriage and give them the same rights. They were born that way….

The Justice Department does need to uphold the law of the land.
BUT I would love to see gay marriage be legal and recognized in all 50 states. It’s time.

Let’s see.
Obama was for gay marriage in the 90′s.
Then flipflopped for political reasons.
Threw gay people under the bus like he did Rev Wright.
He has no loyalty except to himself.
Wake up gay people.
Obama is not who you thought he was.

Posted by: ollie | Sep 19, 2009 1:46:06 PM
Ollie, read this again. Perhaps it will clarify your misunderstanding of the situation.
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“The government’s filing continues to make clear that the administration believes the Defense of Marriage Act is discriminatory and should be repealed,” Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said in a statement. “The president has said he wants to see a legislative repeal of DOMA because it prevents LGBT couples from being granted equal rights and benefits.”
But, the Justice Department brief states, the administration is obligated to defend federal statutes when they are challenged in court and the Justice Department cannot pick and choose which federal laws it will defend based on any one administration’s policy preferences.

Obama has said he’s against marriage equality so he can get into the White House because the majority of the USA is still uncomfortable with fellow gay citizens. He sees the tide is turning and he wants to ensure he’ll be on the right side in the long-term. Believe it or not, but his support for marriage equality will just continue to expand.

“No more ACORN to register dead people and Disney characters…
Obama is scared.”
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What a foolish piece of propaganda.
The street people doing the registering might have made a few more bucks, but NONE of these non-existent people were going to be able to vote because they would not have I.D. for Disney characters or the dead.
This is the fanatical right wing harping repeatedly on their phony talking points.

Funny. Obama is almost a carbon copy of Bill Clinton’s disastrous first year.

I apologise…
I meant to direct my first comment to chuckles…
Not bridget.

Julieterra, you must not have ever voted or you would know that most of the states do not require anyone to show an ID in order to vote. The liberals said it was not fair to have someone show their ID, that it was discriminating for someone that does not have one to show. So Mickey, cinderella, Donald Duck, and John F. Kennedy(dead person) CAN vote, thanks to that wonderful ACORN organizer, your friend not mine, Obama.

I just can’t deal with the ludicrous people in this comment section. When gay people vote republican they are assuring that they will never have a right to marry their partners. I am gay and I would much rather have my dignity and vote for Obama than a few bucks for republicans. And it’s funny that people who DISLIKE Obama anyways are now trying to recruit the gays against Obama by saying that he is against our community, but last time I checked John McCain supported Proposition 8 and had much less of a gay rights platform than Obama. If that’s not being used by a political party, Ollie, than I don’t know what is. You might as well say the democrats use black people.
When the majority of Republicans start championing our causes and not just Olympia Snowe and Meghan McCain, I might reconsider.

I meant to say “Chad”!
Sorry Maybee:D