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Administration supports lesbian employee's case (Arguing to overturn DOMA)
AP/Yahoo ^ | 7/2/11

Posted on 07/02/2011 4:34:34 PM PDT by markomalley

In a strongly worded legal brief, the Obama administration has said the federal act that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman was motivated by hostility toward gays and lesbians and is unconstitutional.

The brief was filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco in support of a lesbian federal employee's lawsuit claiming the government wrongly denied health coverage to her same-sex spouse.

The Justice Department says Karen Golinski's suit should not be dismissed because the law under which her spouse was denied benefits — the Defense of Marriage Act — violates the constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

"The official legislative record makes plain that DOMA Section 3 was motivated in large part by animus toward gay and lesbian individuals and their intimate relationships, and Congress identified no other interest that is materially advanced by Section 3," the brief reads, referring to the section in the act that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman.

Though the administration has previously said it will not defend the marriage act, the brief is the first court filing in which it urges the court to find the law unconstitutional, said Tobias Barrington Wolff, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

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I would scream outrage, This is too far, but this regime passed "too far" about 2-1/2 years ago.

May God rebuke and pass judgment upon this State (Gen 19 style) if the voters do not correct their error Nov 6, 2012.

1 posted on 07/02/2011 4:34:38 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

The snow ball is rolling down the hill faster and faster.

God help us!


2 posted on 07/02/2011 4:38:21 PM PDT by willibeaux (de ole Korean War vet age 81)
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To: markomalley

That’s ok. When President Palin (or Bachmann, West, Cain, etc.) decides not to enforce Roe v Wade, and states begin to enact their own abortion laws (as they are now), we’ll see how much liberals scream.


3 posted on 07/02/2011 4:43:04 PM PDT by rintense (The GOP elite & friends can pound sand.)
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To: markomalley

When morality isn’t pegged to absolutes, you get this crap.


4 posted on 07/02/2011 4:44:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: markomalley

Karen Golinski (right) with wife Mary Cunninghis (oh boy!)

(they were married in California when it was legal)

5 posted on 07/02/2011 4:51:16 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: markomalley

God will surely judge this nation. It’s only a matter of time.


6 posted on 07/02/2011 4:58:12 PM PDT by ducttape45
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To: markomalley
There are times such as this when I wonder if Zero is even human. He must be a demon masquerading as one.
7 posted on 07/02/2011 4:58:35 PM PDT by proudofthesouth (Democratic Party - The party of genocide.)
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It also lays out the administration's position that sexual orientation is an "immutable characteristic,"

God has changed so called sexual orientation but the activists don't want to hear about it.

8 posted on 07/02/2011 5:03:27 PM PDT by MulberryDraw ( Switch off the EPA.)
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To: markomalley

We should expect THIS radical, Leftist Administration to NOT be working against us!?

Wondering when they ever were working for us.


9 posted on 07/02/2011 5:04:23 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: smokingfrog

I’m a woman and even I have to ask: Why are there no hot lesbians?


10 posted on 07/02/2011 5:28:18 PM PDT by Marie (I agree with everything that Rick Perry is saying. I just wish that *he* did. (NO to Bush II))
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To: wagglebee; little jeremiah

Here’s another one ping.


11 posted on 07/02/2011 5:31:00 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)
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12 posted on 07/02/2011 5:33:04 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: markomalley

If the president cannot in good conscience see to it that the laws are faithfully executed he must resign or he is forsworn.


13 posted on 07/02/2011 5:36:38 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Marie

I’m a guy and I just want to know one thing. Which one takes out the garbage?


14 posted on 07/02/2011 5:37:40 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: smokingfrog

Funny how real lesbians never look like those on TV or the movies.


15 posted on 07/02/2011 5:41:05 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: smokingfrog

They look like the perfect lesbo couple. Relatively unattractive, super smug and will sue the crap out of you if you even look at them wrong.


16 posted on 07/02/2011 5:45:01 PM PDT by hattend (Let's all meet Sarah at her last bus stop -- 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Jan 2013)
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To: Marie
Here's one. She played an evil cyborg in Terminator 3.


17 posted on 07/02/2011 5:48:45 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch

My son approves. ;-)


18 posted on 07/02/2011 6:06:41 PM PDT by Marie (I agree with everything that Rick Perry is saying. I just wish that *he* did. (NO to Bush II))
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To: Raycpa

I’m a guy and I just want to know one thing. Which one takes out the garbage?
***************
Oh, that’s obvious. :-)


19 posted on 07/02/2011 6:07:09 PM PDT by Marie (I agree with everything that Rick Perry is saying. I just wish that *he* did. (NO to Bush II))
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To: Bratch

OK, you lose. I looked her up and she’s not a lesbian. She’s bi. (Read: Greedy)


20 posted on 07/02/2011 6:10:15 PM PDT by Marie (I agree with everything that Rick Perry is saying. I just wish that *he* did. (NO to Bush II))
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