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Boy you’d think by the hysteria over at Focus on the Bunghole that DOMA was about to be overturned by the Obama Department of Justice. The knickers are in a twist over the cases filed against the constitutionality of DOMA by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD). When the judge ruled it ungonstitutional, the right erupted and put on their stylish tin foil hats. (Right Wing Watch):
Tom Minnery, Vice President of Government and Public Policy at CitizenLink (formerly Focus on the Family Action), is insisting that House Republicans investigate the Justice Department over their handling of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, in order to fulfill the desires of the GOP’s Religious Right supporters.Infuriated by the judge’s ruling, Religious Right activists were so assured of DOMA’s constitutionality that they maintained that the Justice Department must have intentionally mishandled the cases and purposefully lost. Tom McClusky of the Family Research Council said that “in part, this decision results from the deliberately weak legal defense of DOMA that was mounted on behalf of the government by the Obama administration,” and Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel and David Barton of WallBuilders recently discussed why they believe the Justice Department “threw the case.”
Minnery’s top-class Reynolds Wrap headwear has resulted in his declaration that the House Republicans were wusses the last time they were in control and that the social conservatives must have hearings to investigate the allegedly deeply pro-homosexual DOJ.
Will there be comprehensive hearings by House oversight committees on the unwillingness of the Justice Department to thoroughly defend, as the Constitution requires, legal challenges to federal laws? I have in mind the Defense of Marriage Act. The Justice Department has failed to provide an adequate defense against lawsuits seeking to tear away this law.
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*shakes head*My only question is exactly what would these people consider to be a legitimate legal defense of DOMA?
They tried throwing everything and the kitchen sink during the Proposition 8 trial. What, is Focus on my Ass going to drag out Dr. George Rekers impeccable research?
What are you talking about?It’s right in the Constitution:
Article 4
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State(except if its queers who get married or have an adopted kid).
Amendment 14, Section 2
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws(except for the homos, of course, they don’t count).
Just incredible.Just when you think they can’t possibly get any crazier, they come out with something like this. If they had anything going for them that even resembled a legitimate argument, they’d lay it out. Not that that will stop some of the loonies in the new congress from actually holding hearings; that will of course depend on what
bribescampaign contributions Focus on the Rectum ponies up. Because, you know, we have the best government possible.Call the assholes outDOMA = DOGMA, without the “G(od)”
DADT = can’t serve until DAD-T (daddy) says so.
Deliberate acroynyms for a deliberate reason?
Has anyone in congress addressed the motive for these?
I mean come on. How much more blatant can these assholes be about instituting a theocracy than this?
There is no sound constitutional argument for the deprivation and discrimination of a group of people. The only ones purporting this is the “I’ll tell my congregation to vote for you and host polling stations if you institute this dogmatic social regulation on the country” group.
What needs to happen is the church and politicians need to be called out for the sleazeballs that they are. I mean expose them for the RAW and openly blatant connections they have.
Then refer to the constitution that the “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”
It is not that far of a stretch to make the connection. If they argue “it’s states rights” then just point out that the STATES MUST FOLLOW THE US CONSTITUTION. i.e. The states can not make a law or constitutional amendment in violation of the US Constitution.
They are deliberately crafting language that is a direct result of biblical influence without reciting the verses.
It’s all about motive in the courts anyways. I’m sure a competent lawyer can make this case.
I’m curious…Is this…
…actually a photo? It looks like one of those cheezy paintings with open eyesockets that you see in Three Stooges films and Scooby Doo cartoons.
The Three Stooges had a lot more class than this.
There was a very interesting forum on C-Span yesterdayhttp://www.c-spanvideo.org/pro…
at about 1:31 they talk about DADT and DOMA. The POTUS need not “defend” DADT or DOMA. They say he can tell the SCOTUS that they are appealing BUT they believe that DOMA is unconstitutional and offer an Amicus curiae attorney to argue for DOMA while the DOJ argues it’s unconstitutionality.
So if our POTUS is so freeking smart, why didn’t he think of this?
WARNING John Yoo is on this forum and he lies at least twice that I know of.
It’s easy…We all know that the only ones who can correctly interpret a 200+-year-old document are those who believe a Bronze Age book of myths and fairy tales is completely accurate and 100% true!
Heaven forbid the judicial system acts to dispense justice! They’re supposed to be like the old days — sentence them guilty, send them to prison, and throw away the key, and beat them until they’re dead (unless an angry mob happens to do their job for them!).
FotF is no different from the White Citizens Councils of the deep south, vainly trying to keep society from changing around them, while they attack those who dare oppose their just rule that god put them over everyone else.
They want a rallying issue because they have been “Left Behind”The FRC seems to be the media leader these days. Also, this gives any court victory for our side the taint of being a subversion of justice.
The brief the DOJ submitted on DOMA was, as I am sure you all recall, something that would have done Peter LaBarbera proud in terms of being a vile misrepresentation.
Why would they want to investigate someone who compares us to pedophiles? Shouldn’t they be cheering him on?
Because the POTUS wants to defend them both.
This man is nuts. DOJ still has some of those Liberty Universitylawyers who buriend in during the last 30 years. Many of whom wouldn’t have jobs at all except for Reagan and the Bushes. They weren’t really qualified, but still got the job anyway.
With all the infiltration in the government by right wing fundies, you would think they could get them all in one stadium and tell them what needs to be done. BWAHAHAHAH.
This man is a retard. Once, someone takes a government job and swears to uphold the Constitution, one must weight their stable income against right wing ideology. Guess what usually wins.