Comments on: US asks court to dismiss challenge to marriage law

By: jessieka

jessieka — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:04:15 +0000

looks like obama’s camp is just as good at bs as jr was its a CLEAR violation of constitution then again its just a piece of paper SINCE all protections except for guns has been dismantled.They might as well brand us & put us in camps.For the faciest are in power & obama’s is one of them!

By: secrity

secrity — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:24:40 +0000

The Democrats are not friends of gay people; DOMA and DADT were signed into law by a Democratic president and now we have a Democratic president defending DOMA.

By: secrity

secrity — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:21:24 +0000

I don’t know who I will be voting for in the next election, but I know who I will be voting against. I think that I even know which party I will be voting against.

By: Randy LaBolle

Randy LaBolle — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:15:34 +0000

I don’t think he lied…he has never been for our equal rights, so where is the lie? Only in that he feigns interest,but that is just being a true Democrat. Also re-registering as an Independent as a previous poster.

By: DaveW

DaveW — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:20:10 +0000

Chris, while I totally agree with your assessment of the current administration, why the surprise? Obama said from the very, very beginning and still says he is not for marriage equality.

He is on record as a bigot claiming my marriage in Mass is not equal to his. For this I have no respect for him as he is saying what is obviously not true (and i doubt he believes it) simply for political expediency.

I said this when he became a candidate and all through the election. My friends are mad he doesn’t support marriage equality now that he is president. Why should we expect him to have been lying during the election.

One thing that is definitely true is he has no need to let his department bring forth these hate-slinging arguments.

To say congress can grant civil rights incrementally, and to say that if they don’t it is ok is simply a lie. That department knows full well two married couples treated differently by the feds is discrimination, is not allowed under our consititution and HAS NOTHING to do with congress wanting to grant rights or not.

We have these rights under our constitution and congress OVERSTEPPED its authority with DOMA. Now that we have unequal couples all there is as an option is for the courts to fix it. Repeal/don’t repeal…won’t matter if the courts had the balls to do what is the only legally correct option: end the discrimination which is not allowed under our constitution.

Too bad even at the supreme court level decisions are made with a deference to politics. Too bad indeed.

By: Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:48:04 +0000

All I can say to the Obama administration when they say that they must defend federal laws they supposedly disagree with is… YOU LIE!

As to finding the law “constitutionally permissable”.. again, YOU LIE!

And I say this AS a Democrat. There are many options they can take that do not give anti marriage equality people ammunition, such as they have been doing.

To date, Obama has proven to be NOTHING but WORDS and tokem symbolic gestures than mean virtually nothing to the GLBT community as a whole.

I think I am going to register as an Independent. I don’t trust either party anymore. Well, I guess I trust the Republicans to be a-holes – you really can’t go wrong there – but now I seem to be able to trust Democrats to do nothing more than just talk about GLBT equality instead of actually doing anything about it.

Oh, and if some GLBT things DO get passed and Obama had nothing to do with it (beyond words) – he is still NOT getting my vote.

By: robertocucina

robertocucina — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:21:19 +0000

This confirms what I’ve always maintained. The right wing same-sex marriage haters claim that government should not be involved in marriage. Well now….when state governments issue “secular” marriage licenses that allow both religious and civil marriage to be performed and the federal government confers more than a thousand rights and privileges that can only come through straight marriage, then YES, it does get involved with marriage, directly. Obama needs to acknowledge that. His admission that civil unions at the federal level should be available for gay couples proves that marriage is a federally supported institution. He “lies”.

By: ScottNH

ScottNH — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:02:14 +0000

The former Bush administration – and granted, they set the bar for subversion and just plain evil – turned the Department of Justice inside out and shook it by its ankles. Why is the Obama administration so ineffectual? Why should it be OK with us that they sit back and say ‘Oh, those gosh darn government agencies, they do such bad things’ I mean who’s in charge here? Where’s the leadership?