Obama gets out of way of gay marriage

Obama has instructed his fellow communist brother-in-arms, Attorney General Eric Holder, not to prosecute cases pertaining to the Defense of Marriage Act signed into law by Billy-Bob Clinton, which states that marriage is between a man and a woman. Apparently Obama feels that this law is unconstitutional! Oh, I see how it works - the President of the USA may cherry pick which laws he agrees with and supports, and any others he doesn't agree with may be ignored! Wow - no wonder he passed law school and became the editor of the campus glad-rag and "Professor" of community organising. I thought that when the POTUS gets sworn in, he pledges to uphold the laws of the United States and protect the Constitution?? Guess I was wrong. When is this joke going to be impeached?

The Obama administration announced Wednesday that it had withdrawn its legal support for the federal Defense of Marriage Act, stating that the law is unconstitutional and therefore the administration is under no obligation to defend it.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a statement released Wednesday that President Obama has decided that his administration will cease its defense of DOMA’s Section 3, which defines marriage for federal purposes as a legal union between one man and one woman.

Even before Wednesday’s decision, social conservatives were suspicious of the Obama administration‘s willingness to give its best effort, as the executive branch tasked with defending the laws Congress enacts, in lawsuits challenging the Defense of Marriage Act.

The act, signed into law by President Clinton in 1996, also says that no state is obligated to recognize same-sex marriages contracted in other states.

“The president has concluded that given a number of factors, including a documented history of discrimination, classifications based on sexual orientation should be subject to a more heightened standard of scrutiny,” Mr. Holder said. “The president has also concluded that Section 3 of DOMA, as applied to legally married same-sex couples, fails to meet that standard and is therefore unconstitutional. Given that conclusion, the president has instructed the department not to defend the statute in such cases. I fully concur with the president’s determination.”

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