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Why didn’t Obama back this* when Democrats had majorities in both Houses of Congress?

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Obama Supports Repeal of Defense of Marriage Act:

President Obama is throwing his support behind the Respect for Marriage Act – the bill to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which banned the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage even for couples married under state law.

Why didn’t he make any effort to repeal DOMA earlier in his term. Just asking.

*or similar legislation

Comments

  1. Why did a Republican author DOMA? Why did it move through a Republican-controlled Congress on a legislative fast track, be voted through in those Republican-controlled House and Senate by overwhelming majorities, be endorsed in the GOP party platform in 1996, and why is it now being defended by the Republican Speaker of the House at taxpayer expense? Just asking.

  2. Easy, torrentprime.

    Republicans recognize that gays and lesbians like yourself do not add anything to the institution of marriage, have no intentions of accepting or following the responsibilities of marriage, are demanding marriage out of pure spite and antireligious bigotry, and in fact have such a twisted viewpoint that you demand that plural, incestuous, and other relationships be recognized as marriage.

    Add to that the fact that gays and lesbians like yourself call for Republicans to die, and the choice becomes very simple. Marriage is too important to society to waste it on childish, irresponsible, hatemongering bigots like you.

  3. One other thing that Republicans realized: every single Obama Party demand for marriage has led to increased destruction of the institution.

    Just look at no-fault divorce. Obama Party leftists demanded it and insisted that it would do no damage to marriage. Now it’s perpetually listed as one of the leading reasons why marriage is in such awful shape.

    Or how about children out of wedlock? Barack Obama and his party pushed and screamed and whined that it was “unfair” to reward people who married and had children and that single parenthood and lack of marriage should be treated exactly the same. Now, oddly enough, desperate moron Barack Obama has to get up and beg men to take care of their children — even more hilarious when you realize that Barack Obama is such a poor and disengaged father that he can’t remember his own daughter’s age and birthday.

    Gay-sex marriage is no different. Cheapen the institution, weaken it before society, create problems. The Barack Obama Party makes marriage worse every time it touches it, and gay-sex marriage is no exception.

  4. torrent, I’ll grant Republicans are far from perfect on this issue, but why do you rush to criticize Republicans in a comment to a post that hints at a Democrat’s opportunism?

    Can’t you at least acknowledge this man’s posturing?

  5. It is simple I’m afraid. This is pandering, pure and simple. This president has made clear that he is not in favor of Gay marriage and is only “evolving” on the subject. “Evolving”, what does that even mean? Is this his way of ‘flip-flopping’ but trying to control the narrative on that as well? I digress, the president wants his cake and to eat it too. His alleged repeal of DADT has somehow magically reappeared in the courts. Is there a single constituency left that he hasn’t lied to?

    I didn’t vote for him before, I won’t this time. With that said, he is our President and I am ashamed of him and his thoughtless, careless, transparent pandering and vote-grubbing. It is truly sad.

  6. Obama is clearly “posturing” and “pandering” as both have mentioned here. He never had any intention of a serious push on this. Andrew Cuomo he certainly is not on this issue and all this talk of his supposed “evolving” is pure bunk. Come to think of it, would that Obama were like Cuomo a bit more even on fiscal matters. The governor is far better than the president and leans more to the right on the budget (he’s still a NY Dem so bear that in mind).

  7. Torrent: Because a Democrat president at the time agreed strongly with it, even saying to The Advocate: “I remain opposed to same-sex marriage. I believe marriage is an institution for the union of a man and a woman. This has been my long-standing position, and it is not being reviewed or reconsidered.”

    This sounds remarkably similar to the views expressed by our current president, also a Democrat, his so-called “evolving” notwithstanding.

    Finally, I remind you that an overwhelming majority of Democrats in the House and in the Senate, which included our current Vice President.

  9. The cynical answer is that Pres. Obama, Sen. Reid and Speaker Pelosi didn’t act on DOMA while they had nearly bullet-proof majorities is that they then wouldn’t have DOMA to shake the Gay Money Tree with, and to keep the G/L Lefties on the reservation. Just as they wouldn’t have moved on DADT without the LCR successful lawsuit in the Federal Courts…which Obama is STILL fighting against.

    The Democratic Party gets millions of dollars from the Gay ATM courtesy of it’s “evolving” stances on G/L issues. Actual success would cut into the take….

  10. When you cancel the Defense of Marriage Act, what do you call it? Surrender? Oh, look a squirrel? Open Marriage for All? The Gays are Longer Gay Act? The Equality for Gay Sex Initiative? The Last Gay Frontier Act? The Can’t We All Just Get Along Act? The Dismantling Marriage Act?

  11. Didn’t a court recently uphold DADT? Well, then, obviously, the President has to do *SOMETHING* to mollify the whiners gay liberal base. And aren’t his polls now down in the 30’s? It’s all about the timing.

  13. This timing will also help to “convince” the independent voter that Republicans are evil creatures who hate the gay population. Now, he can say I supported it, the Republicans did not.

  14. The Democrats wanted to continue their spending binge; with no budget, the Democrats spent unabated like strung out drug addicts in a crack house.

  16. Say TP, how come Christians are being fired from their jobs for publicly opposing gay marriage? Does the guaranteed freedom of speech no longer apply to the thought criminals? Shall we see them rounded up and sent to the gulags soon?

    Just asking, asshole.

  17. Because Obama actually has no interest in repealing DOMA.

    http://gay.americablog.com​/2011/04/dear-mr-holder-ar​e-incest-and.html

    http://www.americablog.com​/2011/04/your-ethics-do-no​t-trump-my-civil.html

    http://gay.americablog.com​/2011/05/obama-doj-equates​-gay-servicemembers.html

    http://gay.americablog.com​/2011/04/breaking-obama-ad​min-defends-anti-gay.html

    http://gay.americablog.com​/2011/04/wh-press-sec-thin​ks-gays-are-too-mean.html