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Obama Admin Backs Bill to Overturn Defense of Marriage Act

The White House is supporting legislation to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The controversial law, passed in 1996 by large majorities in both the House and Senate and signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton, defines marriage as between one man and one woman. In contrast, a new bill — the Respect for Marriage Act — would repeal DOMA and clear the way for gay couples to be federally recognized.

The Obama administration’s stance on the reversal bill emerges the evening before the first-ever Senate hearing is scheduled to discuss repealing DOMA. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, among others, is praising the president’s support for the gay community. Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force writes:

President Obama did the right thing today by announcing his support of the Respect for Marriage Act. In doing so, he joins the large and growing chorus urging for an end to DOMA, a discriminatory, unjust and far-reaching law. There is no sound defense of the indefensible DOMA, which singles out and selectively denies fundamental rights to legally married same-sex couples…

Press secretary Jay Carney made the announcement Tuesday, a day before the first Senate hearing on a bill by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein that would overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. ABC’s Jake Tapper has more:

“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…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.”

President Obama had already announced that he views the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional. He also had ordered the Justice Department to stop defending it in court. But, until now, advocates have criticized the administration for not moving swiftly enough on issues that impact the gay community. In fact, in June, The Blaze noted that the president was harshly criticized at the left-wing Netroots Nation conference for his lack of action on both immigration and gay marriage.

While Obama may certainly be genuine in advocating for gays and lesbians, the 2012 campaign season is just heating up. It’s not out of the realm of belief to assume that the president is seeking to secure votes from associated electoral cohorts. Recent actions and decisions — including this most recent development — show the president working fervently to court the gay vote. This latest move to support overturning DOMA will potentially score the president much-needed political points among left-leaning interest groups.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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  • quicker
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:41pm

    Now guys we really need to get behind this President.Yup ,every step of the way to the whitehouse door whenwe kick this prevert out of office.We have to do it Lord knows that our congress and senate don`t have the B .A L.L s to do it.

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    • eyestoseeearstohear
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:49pm

      Yeah…I’D LIKE TO “ GET BEHIND HIM” alright…

      Wearing A BIG BOOT and a BAT!

      ((( KICK, POP….AND HE’S OUTTA HERE)))))

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    • Iman Barak Hussein
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:37pm

      obama is everything bad for America.

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    • abbygirl1994
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:53pm

      Oh to have a Godly man in the White House… no instead we get the devil incarnate.. Lord help us!

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:54pm

      Obama is the BIGGEST LIAR…did he not say that marriage was between a man and a woman when he was running for president…EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING he says is a LIE.

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    • jtchodgie
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 8:48pm

      eyestoseeearstohear

      I bet you’d like to “Get Behind Him”. With a bat? Really? Sick

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    • jzs
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:01pm

      Hey posters! I have some horse and buggy stock that I’d invite you to invest in. And there’s this new invention called a slide rule that you might consider as a stock option.

      Okay, sarcasm aside, feel free to invest your time and energy opposing efforts to legalize gay marriage. This isn’t any different than opposition to blacks eating in restaurants, or black marrying whites. There was a period of opposition, but when the old guard left and a new generation made the laws, then those discriminatory practices ended (at least in theory, although I know prejudicial practices still exist).

      I can only speak from the sphere of my knowledge, but based on that, teenagers don‘t give a dang about a person’s orientation, or their color. Yes, there’s still prejudice, but far less than when I was young.

      This is just one of those things. You can oppose it, that’s fine. But the tide, the tsunami, of history will eventually sweep away this prejudice. More and more, young people care less and less a person’s color, religion or sexual orientation. The world is more and more beginning to judge a person based on the “content of their character.”

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    • The Top Crusader
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:08pm

      *sigh* I thought the Tea Party was about fiscal responsibility… if it keeps getting itself tied up in societal rules based on religion then it will fail…

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:56pm

      Obama will go down in history as the worst president the U.S. has had since Millard Fillmore, and many will debate he is even worse than that.

      Once again, the eminent JZS has spoken (and once again, he speaks from a position of gross undereducation),

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 12:36am

      “This isn’t any different than opposition to blacks eating in restaurants, or black marrying whites. There was a period of opposition, but when the old guard left and a new generation made the laws, then those discriminatory practices ended”

      Riiiiight, JZS, because all those racist laws were ancient and universal, like the idea that marriage is only between a man and a woman. Never in the history of man, until our enlightened time, did anyone think that blacks and whites should marry? Is that what you are saying? That’s why the issues are the same?

      You are so full of it. Not to see the difference between overturning racist laws, that had no long history of existence and could not claim anything close to universal historical consensus, and the universal definition of marriage omly shows you to be deliberately irrational.

      Let me clue you in to some basic sciebtific realities: There is no such thing as a black race or white race. These are artificial and arbitrary definitions. To ignore “racial” distinctions is simply to acknowledge that they are merely the temporary dominance of secondary characteristics within subgroups of the same species. Male and female, on the other hand, are very definite biological realities, and nearly universal in the animal kingdom. To ignore that difference is closer to ignoring the difference between alive and dead than it is to ignoring the difference between “white” and “black”, or between blue and brown eyed.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 6:59am

      Well said Isledfordian. I’m so sick of people comparing these so called prejudices like they are similar.
      Opposition to homosexuality is so far off the charts different from racism.
      First and foremost, because GOD — Creator of all things, calls it an abomination.
      And secondarily to that – because it defies nature, as if you even needed a secondary reason.
      Racism was/is stupidity on the part of man. We are all equal human beings. The color of our skin does not determine a ranking system.
      Opposition to gay marriage is not an anti-equality issue nor a bigotry issue, despite what proponents think.

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    • casutu
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 1:09pm

      Ad this to the long list of things Obama and his cronies are doing to ruin our country. I pray we may get a God-fearing person with morals in the White house in 2012!

      http://www.ezloancalculator.org

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  • GadsdenPatriot
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:39pm

    Marriage is not a right. Sign a contract homosexuals but leave the sanctity of God’s marriage alone.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:54pm

      Who cares? It’s the individual who knows the truth not the government! Everyone knows procreation can only happen with a male and female! Teach the truth and you don’t worry!

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    • the hawk
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:55pm

      Marriage is none of the GOVERNMENT’S BUSINESS !

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    • the hawk
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:57pm

      oBAMMA CANT LOSE THE GAY VOTE ANYWAY SO WHY ALL THE FUSS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE?

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    • GadsdenPatriot
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:07pm

      jdung

      You obviously have no clue what this kind of power-grab implies. Who said marriage is the only way to procreate? That comment was foolish. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with procreation and everything to do with expanding government’s power over you.The federal government has no business in religious institutions much less dictating them.

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:41pm

      You said it. Anyone who thinks this government won’t take away all their rights to promote their progressive agenda had better have second thoughts. This is a government by the minority, for the minority and of the radical left. 2012 will be too late to stop their destruction of this great nation.

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    • bdwatcher
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:49pm

      This oversteps the boundary of church and state. The federal government has no right to pass laws that make doctrines of religious beliefes incorrect and against the law. Virtually all religions consider a marriage is between one man and one woman. Is this wrong? Is it the governments place and responsibility to say what religious beliefs are wrong and lawless? It is not only the church’s beliefs but the beliefs of most Americans and people of the world, Don‘t give me examples of othe’s, still a minoroty and not Christian or Judao Christian beliefs. This action again usurps the powers of the sovereignity of state powers as Obamacare over reaches it authority. If this passes and Obamacare is not repealed, there is nothing the government can not delegate and involve themselves in your life. Nothing. Next is marriage between someone and an animal? Plant? It is not governments responsibility to determine religious beliefs.

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    • jeronadams
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 8:54pm

      So then all marriages in India are not legitimate because they do not believe in the Christian God?

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    • Tree
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:01pm

      When it comes to marriage, the license issuer is a state, so I can see the argument that it is a state’s rights issue. But when federal benefits for married couples comes in, that’s when it becomes a federal issue. I’m glad the DOMA passed a while back, and I hope it sticks around, because I agree with Gadsdenpatriot, how silly it would be to have spouses issued to us, or be able to sue someone for infringing on a right by turning down a marriage proposal?
      And last I checked, procreation can only happen between cells from a male and female in the human species.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 12:01am

      there is no a single mammal, that pairs for life, with the same sex. it’s against nature in every way shape and form. against nature = not green.

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    • the hawk
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 12:54am

      No, JERONADAMS
      wHAT WE ARE SAY’IN IS GOVERNMENT HAS NO BUSINESS IN MARRIAGE!
      It’s a Religious-Spiritual Union (Hindue, jewish, muslum, Christain, Wiccian,ect)
      Not a privilege given by the State or fed government ! Got It ?

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 7:05am

      Gadsen…. he didn’t say “marriage was the only way to procreate” he said “the only way to procreate is with 1 man and 1 woman”. There is a difference in the 2 statements.

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  • eyestoseeearstohear
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:39pm

    Obama comes down on BOTH SIDES of the issue because
    HE GOES EITHER WAY ON THE ISSUE…

    Ask Larry Sinclair AND Michelle.

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  • hialtitude
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:39pm

    Well naturally he’d want to concentrate on this issue while the ECONOMY IS FALLING APART and the COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET!!!!

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  • greeneyes1982
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:37pm

    Since when did marriage become a right for anyone? If they make it a right then who is to stop a person from forcing a person to marry them? Ya know, since marriage is a right now.

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    • encinom
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:42pm

      So you have no right to marry, Tomorrow the State or Congress can pass a law outlawing all marriages, preventing spouses from enjoying property and inheretenance rights bestowed due to marriage? Maybe lets have economic tests and race based test for who gets a marriage license.

      Tbaggers need to stop attempting to think, it is hurting their small brains (see Bachmann’s headeaches).

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    • PastorDecker
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:47pm

      ENCINOM:

      Your use of the word “Tbaggers” is very funny. Seeing that the Tbaggers are the ones wanting gay marriage. The Tea Partiers are the ones wanting to keep some assemblance of morality in our nation. Good job…way to show your absolute ignorance.

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    • GRAMPA-D-NH
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:04pm

      Since when did everyone NOT have the right to marry? Every single person could chose to marry the opposite sex, as the word and institution had been defined for eons. If you prefered to co-habitate in a long term relationship with someone of the same sex and have the same legal rights of marriage, civil union were the means. The Gay lobby was more interested in offending the vast majority of the traditionalists and religious by redefining a sacred institution than acquiring equal rights.

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    • MightyInfantry
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:22pm

      @ Encinom
      Marriage is a right because religious freedom is a right. Which means it should be regulated by churches not by the government. That is how it was when churches kept the records of marriages. The government defining marriage is a way for them to creep into religion, but you know that and you probably like that.

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    • abbygirl1994
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:55pm

      Ummmmmmmmmmm is anyone aware of what happened to the wicked in Sodom and Gommorah?? Sure hope it gets here soon,,

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    • greeneyes1982
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:10pm

      I have sad news for you, marriage isnt about property rights and benefits and anyone who thinks it is, is being foolish. The Government cant outlaw a privilege given by God or any other religious institution where marriage between a man and woman is recognized. The Government is trying to over step their own precious separation of Church and State by infiltrating in on what the Church recognizes as a marriage. If marriage was a right within itself then EVERY hetero person of age under the current laws that wants to be married would currently be married. The thing about rights is that if there isnt a preset rule, so to speak, of the right, then anyone and everyone could change every issue to favor them and make it a right. Sort of like a child who is making up the rules to a game while the game is being played in order to win the game in every situation.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:52pm

      2 words for you. “holy matrimony”

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 12:20am

      Marriage may be a right, but it is a right with restrictions. Siblings and first cousins can’t marry each other. People already married can’t marry. Children can’t marry. Mentally retarded can’t marry.

      All those restrictions are imposed by our modern society’s idea of what marriage properly means. Other cultures in history have thought differently on them. But the one restriction that all cultures throught time and over the world have held is that marriage cannot be between two members of the same sex.

      So tell me how we can overturn that ancient and universal restriction and not throw the others into doubt.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 7:08am

      Grandpa D… you may be right in your last sentence.
      The gay community is more interested in upsetting the religious institution of marriage that it is about acquiring equal rights.

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  • Falcon11
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:37pm

    When the Republicans do this, the POSPOTUS calls it symbolic legislation.

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  • notreally
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:35pm

    So what if, throughout the history of the human race, marriage has been accepted between male and female? So what if all cultures on earth respect that fact?

    It doen’t matter with socialists — I mean democrats. “Anything goes” with them, as long as the result is to bring Western Culture to its knees.

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  • martinrnelson
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:34pm

    The Bible has given us lessons regarding this topic and one famous story called Sodem and Gamora. This over-turn will be as if we are turning our back on God. If that happens, God will not stand with the United States. God does not hate gays nor do conservatives, we just understand what the Bible says about this lifestyle/behavior and what those who TRULY SEEK his strength and wisdom will be rewarded. Those who say, this is just who I am and God made me, he’ll judge them, not I. What makes the child molester any different that a Gay person? It‘s lust of the flesh and against God’s word.

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  • EQUALIZER
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:34pm

    What about the defense of two goats and a jackass??

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  • 912er
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:34pm

    I have no problem with gays getting married… just as long as they get the same “penalties, fees and taxes” as the rest of us. no special treatment.

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  • tom
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:29pm

    Believe Larry Sinclair now? Vote Obama out in 2012.

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  • ricrhino
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:29pm

    The Truth of this man continues to be revealed. When will Congress get some balls and start reigning this guy in! How can anyone be so blatant and the media just sit and watch.

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  • Shawn-GA
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:27pm

    Do as you wish in your home, do not use federal funds to support these “alternative” lifestyles.

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  • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:25pm

    Even a broke clock is right twice a day. Obama is right on this.

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    • Toucan
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:34pm

      LPHP:

      Obama is not right on this… Government should “not” have any say in this matter… Marriage is between two people (or more if you so choose), man and woman, man and man, woman and woman… None of this should matter to our elected officials… I am not even sure where they get the authority to decide such matters??? IRS laws probably, but I don’t believe the government making such decisions should be considered constitutional… So, to say Obama is right here, you sure have to overlook a lot of “wrongdoing” by our government to get there…

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:16pm

      Then you agree that DOMA needed repealing

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    • Salamander
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:23pm

      I’m confused! Everythign I ever believed in is being turned to mush by one special interest group or another! We are human beings. Quit trying to turn us into fungi!

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    • enemy of the statist
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:44pm

      @Salamander:
      The key word is “special”. You are correct, it is enough to send one’s head spinning: Illegal aliens are special, homosexuals are special, bisexuals are special, blacks are special, hispanics are special, death-row inmates are special, women are special, the jobless are special, the poor are special, muslims are special, teachers are special, police officers are special, fire fighters are special, soldiers are special, the handicapped are special…

      It makes one want to scream, “WE ARE ALL SPECIAL DAMMIT!”. Live your own life. Leave me out of it. You know what’s special to me? My God, my wife, my children, my extended family, my friends, and my country. Let me choose to which I lend my resources.

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  • AZBabe
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:24pm

    He has NO respect for marriage or he would not be pushing this down our throats. I can’t wait until this a$$ is out of office. He continues to destroy our country day after day.

    Please just go away!

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:17pm

      You have no respect for the marriages of others or else you wouldn’t characterize this as being shoved down your throat.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 9:08am

      We have respect for the MARRIAGES of others, not for the relationships which are NOT marriages pretending that they are and making a mockery of the instirution.

      How do you think a real veteran feels when someone who has never served in war pretends to be a veteran and wears fake medals? It cheapens the honor of all soldiers. You want your relationship respected? Give it its own name and then see whether people deem it as something worth respecting on its own merits.

      I’m not a father. I’m an uncle. I don‘t expect to get cards on Father’s Day and I would be embarrassed if I ever sought, let alone demanded, that people treat me as if I were someone’s father.

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:23pm

    This hear shows that he not a Christian and only believes in Islamic teachings. Because any Christian that believes the Bible as God’s Word cannot condone same sex marriage. So matter what he says he is he goes against God’s Word.

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    • ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:30pm

      This “hear” shows that you are an ignorant hick.

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:28pm

      Zombie, you are a typical liberal calling someone names. Heavyduty, you are right, Obama is going against the word of God. Perhaps hell will be waiting for you, Zombie, with open arms.

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  • Ella
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:23pm

    The deteriorating morality of this once great nation will be its demise, very much like the fall of the Roman empire. History does repeat itself when the moral fiber of the people disappears. There is no doubt that the founders of this nation are crying in their graves.
    Obama desperately needs votes so the gays will vote for him becasue of this. The next president will have a lot to undo. We must hope the congress and the next president are moral, conservative and true patriots or else we who will have to revolt to save our country.

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    • ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:26pm

      Please get over yourself. Straight people cheating and getting divorced … that’s the stuff of deteriorating morality.

      Let gay people get married. What’s it taking away from you?

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    • momprayn
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:30pm

      Jesus is crying also…………..please pray that all evil attempts, plans be thwarted regarding bringing down our country and disrupting the 2012 election process — all cheating, fraud, threats, whatever they try — and that we WILL have those elections. I wouldn’t put anything past them right now – they are desperate not to lose power. They could orchestrate a “crisis” in order to justify calling martial law and who knows what else. We will need Divine intervention and mercy – praying that enough of us wake up, repent and get back to God and acknowledge humbly that we need Him, just like our Founders knew and prayed.

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  • teammommy
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:23pm

    Ah, but how will the OTHER Obama target voters… the HISPANIC vote…go for this? They are on the average, Catholic and religous. This may sway them the OPPOSITE way, as they are a devout section.

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  • dissentnow
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:21pm

    Get the federal government out of the marriage business. Leave it up to the states to decide.

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    • Baron_Doom
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:24pm

      Getting close to election time, so Obama needs at least someone to vote for him.

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    • Matlor
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 4:41am

      @ Dissent

      Hell they‘ve got to go to marriage cause they’re not competant to do anything else …..like solving the financial stability of our country.

      A little sarcasm there; they need to get out of people’s personal lives, but since they can’t deal with real issues the have to pander.

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    • MarketsClear
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 9:43am

      @ Dissentnow

      Exactly! Repeal DOMA! If the federal government wants to hand out benefits for the being in a contract of civil marriage, then it should respect civil marriages licensed by each of the several states.

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  • momprayn
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:21pm

    That reminds me of the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah found in Israel:

    “Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground..” Genesis 19:24, 25 KJV)

    Biblical archaeologist, Ron Wyatt discovered the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah southeast of the Dead Sea in 1989. These devastated Mesopotamian style cities were covered with millions of partially incinerated sulfur balls and tons of ash. Clearly defined walls, some thirty to forty feet high can be found among the ruins.

    Evidence of heat exceeding 4000 degrees Fahrenheit can be seen in the rock strata and ruins throughout the cities. Comparable destruction can also be found at the epicenters of nuclear detonations.

    Such evidence validates the accuracy of the Hebrew Scriptures, and again shatters secular attempts to “mythologize” this ancient catastrophe.

    http://www.messianic-literary.com/sodom.htm

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    • ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:27pm

      Please get your head out of your bible and join us in the real world. You are a few thousand years behind the rest of us.

      Gay people getting married is not taking anything away from you!

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    • sWampy
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 8:45pm

      Zombie, you do realize they found Sodem and Gamora in the last decade, and the bible has proven to be an accurate historical reference. You really should study more about history and less about anal lube.

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    • Consentiondum
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:08pm

      Of course, it makes equal sense that a myth was formed around an actual event in an attempt to explain it. A meteorite impact perhaps. People generally demand explanations for things, and a fiery meteorite that destroys two cities sure seems like an act of God, especially if you don’t know what a meteorite is. The only thing left after that is to invent a reason that God felt the need to do this, pass the story down by mouth and write the convoluted version down centuries later. Did Sodom and Gomorrah exist? Sure seems like it. Were they destroyed? Also seems like it. Whether or not they were destroyed by God for any particular reason is a matter of faith I suppose, and you’re welcome to it.

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  • Mike N
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:19pm

    In the midst of so many more important crises, is there nothing better that the Panderer-in-Chief could be doing with his time? Oh, of course, I forgot . . . election season is upon us!

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  • Anton Phibes
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:18pm

    2012 is a’coming ole boy. Then you, and your preachy, hypocritical, deep fried twinkie eating wife can pack up and move it on out. Idiot.

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  • Chet Hempstead
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:17pm

    Great idea! It hasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of passing the House, but having to go on record against it will prove a continuing embarrassment to Republican Congressmen in purple districts in the future as public opinion continues to shift in favor of marriage equality.

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    • GRAMPA-D-NH
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:50pm

      Everyone had the right to marriage – one man, one woman, as it was for eons. If you didn’t want to marry, civil unions granted the same legal rights for same sex couples. Gay marriage was never about “rights” but redefining an institution sacred for many. There is nothing to be embarrassed about standing against the Gay lobby who is not satisfied with equal rights – equal justice under the law, but offending traditionalists who revere the institution of marriage – the one and only, one man, one woman union.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 8:44pm

      Saying that a gay person’s right to marry someone they can’t be attracted to or love the way that person deserves is equal to the right of a straight person to marry someone they love fully and are attracted to is a bigger and worse redefinition of marriage than recognizing the committed relationships of same-sex couples as marriages.

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  • I SPY
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:15pm

    Ridiculous. I’m speechless. This is clearly the worst president in U.S. history and a total screw ball.

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    • encinom
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:38pm

      Sorry the Worst President in US history goes to W., followed by Nixon but GOPers. Obama is just coming into his own and driving racist tbaggers nuts.

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    • I SPY
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 2:17pm

      Encinomoron,
      I don’t feel sorry for you, and your failed life is only a product of your own complete ignorance and self hatred.

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  • jacobstroubles
    Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:13pm

    Vile/EVIL AND FULL OF BLASPHOMY.
    How much clarity do the people of the United States need before they recognize what is going on.

    The antichrist is about to be revealed!

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    • ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:29pm

      You are are a small minded fool.

      If heaven is full of your like, I will take hell.

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    • Poogie
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:32pm

      And may those who doubt consider that hell does actually sound very hot and eternity a very very long time….

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    • enemy of the statist
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:46pm

      Obama is thinking now that I have this debt problem under my thumb, back to campaigning!

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:47pm

      nature is small minded then… please, show me 2 mammals, of the same sex, that are paired for life.

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    • Consentiondum
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 1:07am

      JB. Kibs.

      Instances of homosexuality in mammal and bird species has been long known to be relatively common. Species that form mating pairs for life however are not all that common in mammals, although they do exist, and are a bit more common in birds. There was a rather famous pair of male penguins at the Bronx Zoo that exhibited mating and pairing behaviors with one another exclusively for six years.

      -http://www.livescience.com/2534-sex-couples-common-wild.html
      -http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/5550488/Homosexual-behaviour-widespread-in-animals-according-to-new-study.html
      -http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-moral-lives-animals/201103/is-homosexuality-immoral-lets-ask-the-animals
      -http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04animals-t.html
      -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals

      Well, the list could go on. I would encourage you to do a little research. I suggest starting with Bonobos.

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