While the Department of Justice (DOJ) defends the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in another case, President Barack Obama’s administration filed a legal challenge to DOMA on Monday, August 17, claiming the federal statute is, get this, discriminatory. Yes, you read that right, natural marriage — which celebrates the diversity of a man and a woman, and unites them — discriminates.
DOMA protects the federal definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman (for purposes of the tax code, federal benefits, etc.), and protects states from being forced to recognize same-sex “marriages” from other states. The president’s revelation comes on the heels of the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) bold announcement that they’re lobbying U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) to head a legislative effort to overturn DOMA.
The attack on DOMA comes from a very dedicated minority which seeks to force their radical views of homosexuality on the entire nation. They want to overrule the opinions of a majority of Americans and the votes of 30 states that have passed constitutional amendments to protect their state laws. DOMA passed the US House with 80 percent support and the US Senate with 85 percent support in September 2000.
Obama fully supports the homosexual agenda
As a presidential candidate, Obama occasionally made it sound like he supported natural marriage, though he was clear that he is an advocate of the homosexual political agenda and that the far-left positions he consistently took in the Illinois General Assembly and U.S. Senate would not change.
Unfortunately, the majority of Americans did not learn of his radical positions on pro-family issues — thanks in large part to the dominant complicit media. There should have been a fire-storm when Obama claimed that Jesus Christ supported same-sex marriage in the Sermon on the Mount when campaigning in Ohio. Why is it that a Christmas ad by then presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee created more of a controversy? (The debate had to do with whether the bookshelf in the background forms a cross and whether that’s a crypto-Christian symbol.) Perverting our Lord’s Word is infinitely more controversial than an alleged (and harmless) subliminal message.
Yet the left leaning media spoon fed a carefully cultivated image of him — perpetuating the candidate’s own talking points that suggested that he was a new kind of politician, rather than the ultra-liberal ideologue he is.
Moreover, I cannot believe that the citizens of Wisconsin — who voted to protect natural marriage by a vote of 59 to 41 percent in 2006 — would be in favor of their senator leading the charge to repeal DOMA.
Feingold is up for election in 2010. Maybe the citizens of Wisconsin — and voters throughout the nation — will want to send a strong message to the political and media elite via the ballot box next November.
We can only hope.
