How can the man who wrote this
[W]e also have to do more to support and strengthen LGBT families. Because equality in relationship, family, and adoption rights is not some abstract principle; it’s about whether millions of LGBT Americans can finally live lives marked by dignity and freedom. That’s why we have to repeal laws like the Defense of Marriage Act. That’s why we have to eliminate discrimination against LGBT families. And that’s why we have to extend equal treatment in our family and adoption laws.
I’ll be a president that stands up for American families – all of them.
Sincerely,
Barack Obama
file an amicus brief in the federal courts arguing this?
In light of society’s still evolving understanding of marriage, the statute adopted what amounted to a cautious policy of federal neutrality towards a new form of marriage. DOMA maintains federal policies that have long sought to promote the traditional and uniformly-recognized form of marriage, recognizes the right of each State to expand the traditional definition if it so chooses, but declines to obligate federal taxpayers in other States to subsidize a form of marriage their own States do not recognize. This policy of neutrality maximizes state autonomy and democratic self-governance in an area of traditional state concern, and preserves scarce government resources. It is thus entirely rational.
So if a state filled with, say, James von Brunns wants to limit marriage to same-race couples, that would be okay, because it’s “traditional” and wouldn’t “obligate federal taxpayers in other States” to “subsidize” the 1,400 federal benefits given to married couples?
Obama has turned his back on far too much of what he campaigned on, but this is by far the worst.
Go read it all, if you can stomach it.
By the way, Saturday in the Park gay pride festival in Esther Short Park is July 11th.
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