June 30,
2009
Column #1,453
Obama's Gay Agenda
By Mike McManus
You have doubtless heard that the President declared June, the month with the
most traditional weddings - to be LGBT Pride Month. That's Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month. To conservatives, this was horrifying.
However on June 11 Assistant Attorney General Tony West asked a Federal Court in
California to dismiss a lawsuit by two gay men who were "married" in California,
to declare the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to be unconstitutional,
because it allows states that do not recognize same-sex marriages, to ignore the
"marital rights of such couples." And DOMA also disallowed any federal benefits
to same-sex marriages, such as Social Security.
I was encouraged that the Obama Administration filed a 58-page "brief"
supporting DOMA, which was passed in 1996 by a Republican Congress and signed by
President Clinton, a Democrat. The Justice Department argued that when DOMA was
passed, no state had adopted a "newer definition of marriage" and "only a very
small minority of States" have done so since.
The Justice Department tartly noted that the plaintiffs (never mentioned by
name) "lack standing" to sue since they "nowhere allege that they have actually
been denied any rights or benefits" by another state or the Federal Government.
DOMA defined marriage as "the union of one man and one woman," though Justice
conceded a future Congress "may subsequently decide to extend benefits to
same-sex marriages."
The Administration's stance sparked criticism from LGBT leaders.
Therefore, at the White House this week, President Obama told hundreds of LGBT
supporters, "I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage
Act to help end discrimination," sparking joyous applause. However, he added,
"We have a duty to uphold existing law," a duty that "in no way lessens my
commitment to reversing this law."
This was news to me. During the campaign, Obama told Pastor Rick Warren, "I
believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. For me, as a
Christian, it is also a sacred union." He even added, "I am not somebody who
promotes same-sex marriage."
Obama was not being honest, but trolling for votes from the large
televised debate.
This column noted that two months earlier, Obama wrote to the Alice V.
Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club, opposing Prop 8 that
would limit marriage to heterosexuals. And he said he favored the radical stand
to repeal DOMA
"I support extending fully equal rights and benefits to same sex couples under
both state and federal laws," he wrote. "That is why I support repealing the
Defense of Marriage Act...and passage of laws to protect LGBT Americans from
hate crimes and employment discrimination. And that is why I oppose the
divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution and
similar efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution or those of other states."
What's wrong with gay marriage?
Consider a decision by the highest court in liberal New York State: "The
Legislature could rationally believe that it is better...for children to grow up
with both a mother and father. Intuition and experience suggest that a child
benefits from having before his or her eyes, every day, living models of what
both a man and a woman are like."
"By limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples New York is not engaging in
sex
discrimination. The limitation does not put men and women in different classes,
and give one class a benefit not given to the other."
While six states have approved same-sex marriage, 30 states have passed
Constitutional Amendments to limit marriage to heterosexual unions.
California's Supreme Court ruled by one vote that all have a right to
"have government sanction all family forms as having equal dignity." Thus, a man
might have two or three wives.
That's one reason that African Americans in California, Obama's most
passionate supporters, also voted for Prop 8 to limit marriage to a man and a
woman, overturning the Supreme Court decision.
The U.S. Senate will soon vote on a "hate crimes" bill that could prove
disastrous for pastors who preach on Romans 1:27 against "men who abandoned
natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another." The
House-passed bill says it only authorizes prosecution of those causing "bodily
harm." But since violent crimes are ALREADY illegal, the "hate" label and
federal intervention would be based on politically incorrect speech.
What pastors say could land them (or you) in jail.
Hate crimes could radically impact our freedom of speech and freedom of
religion. The Senate bill should be defeated.
Obama is endearing himself to gays, but not to the 98 percent of us who
are straight.
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