Tag Archives: DOMA

“It’s a good thing Barack Obama is not in charge of defending the law of gravity, or we’d all be floating up to an airless death. Allow me to take off the gloves. As one who helped draft the first version of the Defense of Marriage Act, I regard Obama’s order on Feb. 23 to Attorney General Eric Holder to …

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said last night that a GOP plan to defend DOMA will be in place by the end of the week. Cantor’s announcement came as the GOP completely ended unemployment and the nation’s budget crisis, as promised. “I stand by [Boehner’s] commitment to make that happen,” Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday afternoon at a press conference, promising …

Jeremy Hooper says it best at Good As You: “Right now, someone is in Hell doing triple axels while dodging flying pigs.” You gotta wonder how this will fly with frequent AFA radio guest Tony Perkins.

“It’s downright frightening to hear U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder suggest that moral disapproval of homosexual marriages is somehow unconstitutional. What’s next? Federal lawsuits against states with man-woman marriage laws — and federal investigations of individuals who believe that marriage is only for a man and a woman? Barack Obama lied when he said he’d defend marriage for only a …

“I think it is a breach of presidential duty bordering on treason. The oath of office by the president says that he will protect, observe, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, which means all of its subsequent laws. The fact that he says that he has asked the Department of Justice not to enforce it, to …

Family Research Council head bigot Tony Perkins is once again making the Baby Jeebus cry by telling the American Family Association radio audience that President Obama has “unilaterally decided not to enforce DOMA.” In fact, as we all know, the president has merely decided not to defend DOMA and its full enforcement remains in effect.

Get it? Obama is fiddling while marriage burns. Oh my sides. (Via – Good As You)

House Speaker John Boehner to CBN: “I’m really disappointed in the President and the Department of Justice in the fact that they’re not going to defend a law that Congress passed overwhelmingly. It’s their responsibility to do that. Now, it’s happened before where administrations have decided they weren’t going to go out and vigorously defend a law that Congress passed …

Three times married serial adulterer and prospective 2012 GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich today suggested that President Obama could be impeached for his DOMA decision. “I believe the House Republicans next week should pass a resolution instructing the president to enforce the law and to obey his own constitutional oath, and they should say if he fails to do so …

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) emailed his constituents today with a promise to cosponsor Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s coming bill to repeal DOMA. As a Vermonter who has been married for 48 years, I believe it is important to encourage and to sanction committed relationships; relationships that encourage us all to give back to our community; and relationships that complete our lives. …

The Human Rights Campaign today launched a petition to members of Congress, demanding that they not allow a defense of DOMA. This week, the Obama Administration made history by ending its defense of DOMA in the federal courts. But just as President Obama dealt a blow to this discriminatory law, Speaker Boehner and Republican leaders could step in and begin …

This week’s DOMA news has set activists into high gear on many fronts. Immigration Equality founder Lavi Soloway emails us today with his latest move. In New York, New Jersey and California three married, same-sex binational couples, two gay male couples and one lesbian couple, are facing Immigration Judges in deportation proceedings. Each will brandish a pending green card petition …

“The president is lawless and the only ones blind to it are his ass-kissers in the media! A lefist is a leftist whether they’re a journalist or a pundit.”

Via press release from GLAD: The Department of Justice followed Wednesday’s withdrawal from two DOMA cases in the Second Circuit, including GLAD’s Pedersen v. OPM by notifying the clerk of the First Circuit that they will also “cease to defend” the two consolidated DOMA cases, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management and Massachusetts v. HHS. The DOJ has not sent …