President Obama Supports Legislation to Repeal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)

ABC News ^ | 07/19/2011 | Jake Tapper

[Pyro7480]

Tomorrow the Senate will hold the first hearing on The Respect for Marriage Act, which repeals the Defense of Marriage Act, thus granting to all lawfully married couples—including same-sex couples—to receive federal marriage benefits and protections if they are joined by a valid marriage in a state where such marriages are legal.

“The president has long called for a legislative repeal of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, which continues to have a real impact on the lives of real people --our families, friends and neighbors,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said at today’s press briefing.

“He is proud to support the Respect for Marriage Act, introduced by Senator Feinstein and Congressman Nadler, which would take DOMA off the books once and for all," said Carney. "This legislation would uphold the principle that the federal government should not deny gay and lesbian couples the same rights and legal protections as straight couples.”

[Pyro7480]

"The Respect for Marriage Act"

[grobdriver]

Damn well better not go anywhere in the House...

[TaraP]

Mr. Obozo is a fruit...A roton one.

[Siena Dreaming]

Obama today announced support for cuts to Medicare and SS.

Leftists are livid. Thus, expect to see more gay headlines like this.

[LibLieSlayer]

LLS supports legislation to repeal obama!

LLS

[MrB]

A roton is an elementary excitation, or quasiparticle, in superfluid Helium-4.

[TaraP]

LOL..Well he is that too!

[The Bronze Titan]

"The Respect for Marriage Act"

What a bunch of EFFING LIARS!

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

How long before the ossified fossils Coburn, Crapo and Chambliss sign up?

5 minutes?

[Obadiah]

Well, yes, he is a quasiparticle, but by addressing the superfluid Helium-4 are you basically calling Obama “light in the loafers” via esoteric code?

[Venturer]

How can allowing two homosexuals ,enamored with each others rectum ,to engage in these acts and have a ceremony they call marriage be calle respect for marriage.

Tere is nothing more disrespectful for marriage than a homosexual act.

This crap is sick and anyone who votes for it should be tarred and feathered.

I don’t klnow about the rest of America ,b ut I have about had a bellyful of queers and their enablers.

[stephenjohnbanker]

OBAMA SWINGS BOTH WAYS

A poofter

[EQAndyBuzz]

I give up. I am sending both my kids to Canada to get an education and start a new life.

America is dead. As soon as this passes there is only one thing left to kill before the one world government takes over.

The second amendment.

[markomalley]

“He is proud to support the Respect for Marriage Act, introduced by Senator Feinstein and Congressman Nadler, which would take DOMA off the books once and for all," said Carney. "This legislation would uphold the principle that the federal government should not deny gay and lesbian couples the same rights and legal protections as straight couples.”

So I wonder when he will support legislation making marriage between a heterosexual male and heterosexual female illegal?

Call it a hate crime or the like.

"We've also expanded enforcement efforts [including so-called homosexual civil rights] to guarantee that in our work places, our military bases, in our housing and lending markets, in our voting booths in our border areas, in our schools and places of worship. And I mean all places of worship," Holder also said.

(real example of US government sensitivity training curriculum)

[lonevoice]

LOL!! Geek porn. Unfortunately, I don’t speak the language, but I love the sound of it.

[2harddrive]

This proposal is nothing less than an OFFENSE Against Marriage Act!

[MrB]

“elementary excitation” probably describes the way his followers react to him.

[wolfcreek]

Because the DOMA prevents married Gay couples from receiving Military benefits, for one.

[Jim Scott]

No big surprise but it always ticks me off the way leftists use the English language to deceive. 'Respect for Marriage Act', my patoot! It is just the opposite. Sort of like when communist dictatorships call their government 'The People's Democratic Republic' (as in North Korea). It isn't democratic, it's not a republic and 'the people' have no say in it. Just as the promoters of the 'Respect for Marriage Act' actually want to demean the age-old institution of marriage and make the term 'marriage' meaningless, thus turning the very institution of marriage into little more than a legal construct that has next to no real meaning as it has now been separated from what God has established. Individuals will still respect their marriage but the legalizing of same-sex 'marriage' and using federal law to codify it will eventually erode all respect for what marriage really is and always has been: One man, one woman, willingly joined for life and 'as one'. Homosexuals don't fit that simple description. Making absurd laws pretending that two men or two women are 'married' to each other because the government says so won't fool anyone, least of all, God. Of course, at the rate we're going He may one day be deemed 'illegal'. To quote Cole Porter's great (1934) lyric: ...today, anything goes".

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

America is dead. Yes it is. I don’t see how Canada is any better, but whatever.