Posted on 02/26/2011 9:21:37 AM PST by smoothsailing
For Immediate Release February 24, 2011
Contact: Elaine Donnelly, CMR President - (734) 464-9430
Contact: Tommy Sears, Executive Director - (202) 347-5333
DOMA Decision Reveals: Obama Administration Misled Congress on Military Housing and Benefits for Same-Sex Couples
In response to the announcement that the Department of Justice will no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act in federal courts, Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness, issued the following statement:
“The statement issued by the Department of Justice yesterday was partially based on the reckless action of last-year’s lame-duck Congress to repeal the 1993 law stating that homosexuals are ineligible to serve in the military, which is usually called ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’.
“This action belies the Defense Department’s “Comprehensive Review Working Group” report on the subject released on November 30, 2010, and assurances made by the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness, Clifford L. Stanley in two implementation plan documents released on January 28, 2011. The CRWG report and official testimony from the Secretary of Defense disingenuously assured Congress and the military service chiefs that the existence of the DOMA would bar the military from providing housing and benefits for same-sex couples living together as married or ‘committed partners’ on military bases.
“Yesterday’s action also belies a new training document currently being circulated by Army officials, called the “Top Ten Things You Need to Know About the Repeal of DADT,” which should be withdrawn immediately. Point #5 on the Army’s “Top Ten” list reads, “The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) prohibits the Federal Government from recognizing any same-sex marriage, so same sex partners do not qualify as dependents for many benefits and services.”
“Point #6 further claims that “sexual orientation will not be placed alongside race, color, religion, sex, and national origin as a class under the Military Equal Opportunity (MEO) Program.” Neither statement is credible, since the Justice Department has just filed a document declaring the opposite: “…[C]lassifications based on sexual orientation should be subject to a more heightened standard of scrutiny.”
“The Justice Department’s claim that it will continue enforcement of DOMA is meaningless, since the department has said that it will not defend the law at any level. This posture invites activist lower-court judges to exceed their authority in declaring the congressionally approved law unconstitutional, following the same logic as the Obama Administration. Since the Solicitor General will not petition for Supreme Court review of such rulings, the administration has unilaterally extended to sexual orientation groups the same 14th Amendment rights as other “protected” classes.
“President Obama is telling supporters of traditional marriage that their opinions, grounded in a millennium of religious teaching, historical practice, and cultural traditions, are unreasonable and not worthy of consideration, much less a defense from those who wish to impose their own radical view of marriage on the rest of the country.
“The administration is also admitting, belatedly, that imposition of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) law in the military cannot be reconciled with the Defense of Marriage Act. Members of Congress who were led to believe otherwise should call for immediate hearings to reconsider the rash action taken during the lame-duck session of the 111th Congress last December.
“The duplicity exposed yesterday also calls into question the administration’s plans to “certify” that final repeal of the 1993 law, Section 654, Title 10, U.S.C., would not undermine recruiting, retention and readiness in the All-Volunteer Force. Such a document would be equally meaningless and useful only to President Obama, who is determined to make the military pay the price for his political campaign promises to the LGBT Left.
Clinton got impeached for lying. So?????????????????
The statement, "supporters of traditional marriage" is fundamentally wrong and flawed and we MUST snap out of it ASAP. It should state, "supporters of NATURAL marriage" as everything else is UNNATURAL and perversion of natural order.
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Re: Obama Misled Congress
I don’t think Obama cares who he misleads on his way to the Socialization, Islamization, and Homogenation of America.
He already knows he can piss all over the Constitution and no congressman, senator or jurist will do a damned thing about it.
Forget the media — they all work for Obama.
So he will continue to do what he has been doing — and why not?
You’re Welcome!!! :o)
Clinton got impeached for lying.
Not so. He was impeached for perjury. There is a big difference.
For example, your post is just a lie. It’s not perjury.
Perjury is lying under oath, and there’s a big difference between lying and perjuring oneself.
I posted this previously showing what will take place.
DADT alone will open the flood gates for gay marriage in every State. Soldiers will marry in States that allow it and get assigned in States that don’t. They will demand equal protection equating their hardship as exactly like that of blacks when the military desegregated.
The UCMJ will be changed to allow consensual sodomy among adults. All base functions will be authorized for same sex couples. Housing, day care, chapel, everything will be available for them. Full legal rights will be conferred and you better not get in the way or your career is over.
Next will be the transgendered folks.
His humiliation and defeat will be reported in the foreign press.
Sadly, I do. I've heard it plenty of times myself. It's a travesty that so many of our fellow citizens are so clueless.
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Don’t forget pets and farm animals, somebody is going to want to marry them.
LOL!! Thank you! That was a great find.
Has anyone seen or heard from the Westboro Baptist church? Given their supposedly intense hatred of homosexuals they are quite conspicuous by their absence. Or did the puppetmasters in the DNC order them to stand down?
Who trusts the White House? You would have to be insane!
He lied to the courts....call it perjury if you want. The courts called it perjury for lying to them.
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