"Dear Mr. Speaker, In a letter to you last week, the Attorney General advised that the Administration has concluded that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional and therefore will cease to defend the statute in pending litigation. It is in the best interests of taxpayers and the constitution for you to refrain from appointing special counsel to defend this law. A decision to appoint special counsel would be an unnecessary cost to taxpayers, and would detract from our shared goal of cutting wasteful spending and creating jobs."The executive branch’s responsibility to defend federal laws is not absolute, particularly in instances such as the present case, where the federal law is in direct conflict with the confines of the Constitution. At this critical economic juncture in our nation’s history, it is imperative that we as legislators do not devote resources to defending an antiquated and unconstitutional law."- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, in a letter sent today to House Speaker John Boehner.
So what if the law is antiquated? It is still constitutional. It's not like the unconstitutional laws barely passed for Obama by Congress. There's a difference between barely shown to be unconstitutional, and fully shown to be unconstitutional.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Obama is in contradiction, for he enforces, but will not defend DOMA. Yet DOMA is called Defense of Marriage Act, and enforcement of a DEFENSE is in itself a defense. Either the law is constitutional or not, so both enforce it or defend it or neither, but there's no middle ground. And even then, there's already a case where Attorney General is not enforcing DOMA. They cannot play like this with the people of American, because the backwave of opposition will be much stronger. Thanks Obama - the people of homosexual behavior will not thank you in the end.
This homosexual thanks him everyday... its a slow process, a lot of homophobes and bigots using religion as a cover make it difficult for the President to take a stand... DOMA will be defeated, its antiquated, its bigotry, its just stupid... I cannot believe that my marriage threatens anyone else's... if it does, the said relationship was weak at the start... if your church or religious group that you chose to participate in doesn't want to marry a glbt couple, so be it... but those groups that do want to lovingly include GLBT in their communities should not be forced to live by some other groups bigotry... shame!
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