Lawmakers to file DOMA repeal Wednesday

Federal District Judge Joseph Tauro in Massachusetts has ruled — in two separate cases, no less — that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.
President Barack Obama has said that DOMA is unconstitutional and the Justice Department, under his administration, will no longer defend it in court.
Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner has said that the House of Representatives will defend DOMA in court since the Obama administration won’t.
And now, a group of five U.S. senators is set to introduce legislation to repeal DOMA.
Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Christopher Coons of Delaware and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut will officially announce their DOMA repeal bill in a press conference at 2 p.m. EST on Wednesday in the Senate Office Building.
Of course, with Republicans in charge of the House already having announced their plans to defend DOMA in court, and a narrow Democratic majority in the Senate, it’s not likely that Obama will get to keep his campaign promise this year. Still, it’s nice to know DOMA repeal is still on the agenda.

5 Comments

rhonda houston on March 14, 2011 at 5:39 pm

This entry goes to Speaker of the House Boehner and his Millionaire Christian House of Representatives, who THINK GOD IS IN GOVERNMENT:
Speaker Boehner, We’ll see you in court!
Your focus on being a legislator and the position you hold of power has gone to your head; YOU THINK YOU ARE GOD and those with money will have the last say. YOU ARE WRONG. Your focus has been lost how put you there in Congress and who you are supposed to be representing.
When the Consitution for our United States was created, all men were created equal; there was also a Separation of Church and State. Anyone with different preferences are free to express themselves, which is one of the TEN FREEDOMS WE HOLD DEAR.
You and those House Representatives who have great economic wealth who are fanatically enthralled with God, will be using Middle Class money to further this CLUTURAL Bully and infringement on the legal civil rights of those with different cultural view point views on marriage who are both lesbian and homosexual.
All of you that will be performing this illegal federal action will be
(1) spending other people’s money which belongs to the middle class,
(2) will not be doing your job as legislators to find jobs for those of the middle class
(3) have forgotten your legal oaths that must have been taken too long ago to serve your country, not YOUR GOD, because GOD doesn’t exist within this government
(4) You have made the choice to not work for the middle class, but those who pour money in your pocket, rather than find jobs for the middle class to whom you have stuck as those who must pay for private school and have corporations come into their community to ultimately take over their jobs.
Your representation of the ‘really American people’ who began this country will have totally ended for me if you ‘continue on with the bullying of people equal in the view of what our country stands for.’
Ultimately, there will be another consequence to think about concerning what James Adams had to say that will be what YOU leave behind if this continues:
“It does not take a majority to prevail…but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. … If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go
from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!” (Samuel Adams) •
And also what John Adams had to say you obviously have never heard:
“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” (John Adams) •
THERE IS NO GOD IN GOVERNMENT; THERE IS NO CHURCH IN GOVERNMENT.
STOP YOUR WASTING MIDDLE CLASS MONEY TO GO TO COURT TO BULLY THE GOVERNMENT’S PEOPLE.
WHERE ARE THOSE JOBS YOU AS LEGISLATORS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FINDING FOR THIS COUNTRY, INSTEAD OF RENEWING A CULTURE WAR. ACT LIKE LEGISLATORS TO THOSE WHO SENT YOU TO WASHINGTON??
Under DOMA, LGBT couples and their families are denied the more than 1,100 federal protections and responsibilities that apply to married opposite-sex couples.
To take but one example, Edith “Edie” Windsor and her late spouse, Thea Spyer, shared a lifetime together and were a couple for 44 years. Windsor filed a lawsuit against the federal government for refusing to recognize their marriage and imposing a $350,000 tax on Spyer’s estate when she died that Windsor would not have had to pay if she were married to a man.
It is long overdue for this senseless CONSTUTIONAL discrimination to cease. Please BEGIN CREATING JOBS FOR THOSE WHO NEED THEM, BUT I LOOK FOWARD to the day when the courts strike down DOMA once and for all TO REMEMBER.
.

R. King on March 14, 2011 at 7:56 pm

The founding fathers believed in absolute truths; in truths they held to be self evident:
That all men are created; that they are endowed by their Creator..
This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
Benjamin Franklin

R. King on March 14, 2011 at 8:03 pm

For over 250 years no pervert was ever recognized as being equal to right minded people and now we get to witness a horde of well healed miscreants make the rediculous claim that the founders of this nation alway intended to extend preferntial status to perverts.
We have our freedom because of our faith; we do not have our faith because of our freedom.” G.W. Bush
“It is folly to consider our freedom could long survive if ever removed from the minds of man that our freedom is of God,” Thomas Jefferson

James Simmons on March 15, 2011 at 8:16 am

R. King, if you don’t mind me asking, what’s the highest level of education you have completed? I’m just curious, because your second posting–the sentence you wrote yourself–is full of grammar, syntax and spelling errors. Most individuals with a sixth grade education can write better than that. Again, just curious.

Hal Wallace on March 15, 2011 at 11:16 am

R.King/Space Cadet, since you are the quoter for the day. Try this one on for size. A group of radicals committing treason against their country came up with this phrase, that all men are created equal.
Faith has nothing to do with civil liberties. Plus don’t be afraid to put your full name when spewing hatred and nonsense. Besides if that’s what you think why are you trolling around on the voice. Think you have some issues.

rhonda houston on March 14, 2011 at 5:39 pm

This entry goes to Speaker of the House Boehner and his Millionaire Christian House of Representatives, who THINK GOD IS IN GOVERNMENT:
Speaker Boehner, We’ll see you in court!
Your focus on being a legislator and the position you hold of power has gone to your head; YOU THINK YOU ARE GOD and those with money will have the last say. YOU ARE WRONG. Your focus has been lost how put you there in Congress and who you are supposed to be representing.
When the Consitution for our United States was created, all men were created equal; there was also a Separation of Church and State. Anyone with different preferences are free to express themselves, which is one of the TEN FREEDOMS WE HOLD DEAR.
You and those House Representatives who have great economic wealth who are fanatically enthralled with God, will be using Middle Class money to further this CLUTURAL Bully and infringement on the legal civil rights of those with different cultural view point views on marriage who are both lesbian and homosexual.
All of you that will be performing this illegal federal action will be
(1) spending other people’s money which belongs to the middle class,
(2) will not be doing your job as legislators to find jobs for those of the middle class
(3) have forgotten your legal oaths that must have been taken too long ago to serve your country, not YOUR GOD, because GOD doesn’t exist within this government
(4) You have made the choice to not work for the middle class, but those who pour money in your pocket, rather than find jobs for the middle class to whom you have stuck as those who must pay for private school and have corporations come into their community to ultimately take over their jobs.
Your representation of the ‘really American people’ who began this country will have totally ended for me if you ‘continue on with the bullying of people equal in the view of what our country stands for.’
Ultimately, there will be another consequence to think about concerning what James Adams had to say that will be what YOU leave behind if this continues:
“It does not take a majority to prevail…but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. … If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go
from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!” (Samuel Adams) •
And also what John Adams had to say you obviously have never heard:
“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” (John Adams) •
THERE IS NO GOD IN GOVERNMENT; THERE IS NO CHURCH IN GOVERNMENT.
STOP YOUR WASTING MIDDLE CLASS MONEY TO GO TO COURT TO BULLY THE GOVERNMENT’S PEOPLE.
WHERE ARE THOSE JOBS YOU AS LEGISLATORS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FINDING FOR THIS COUNTRY, INSTEAD OF RENEWING A CULTURE WAR. ACT LIKE LEGISLATORS TO THOSE WHO SENT YOU TO WASHINGTON??
Under DOMA, LGBT couples and their families are denied the more than 1,100 federal protections and responsibilities that apply to married opposite-sex couples.
To take but one example, Edith “Edie” Windsor and her late spouse, Thea Spyer, shared a lifetime together and were a couple for 44 years. Windsor filed a lawsuit against the federal government for refusing to recognize their marriage and imposing a $350,000 tax on Spyer’s estate when she died that Windsor would not have had to pay if she were married to a man.
It is long overdue for this senseless CONSTUTIONAL discrimination to cease. Please BEGIN CREATING JOBS FOR THOSE WHO NEED THEM, BUT I LOOK FOWARD to the day when the courts strike down DOMA once and for all TO REMEMBER.
.
R. King on March 14, 2011 at 7:56 pm

The founding fathers believed in absolute truths; in truths they held to be self evident:
That all men are created; that they are endowed by their Creator..
This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
Benjamin Franklin
R. King on March 14, 2011 at 8:03 pm

For over 250 years no pervert was ever recognized as being equal to right minded people and now we get to witness a horde of well healed miscreants make the rediculous claim that the founders of this nation alway intended to extend preferntial status to perverts.
We have our freedom because of our faith; we do not have our faith because of our freedom.” G.W. Bush
“It is folly to consider our freedom could long survive if ever removed from the minds of man that our freedom is of God,” Thomas Jefferson
James Simmons on March 15, 2011 at 8:16 am

R. King, if you don’t mind me asking, what’s the highest level of education you have completed? I’m just curious, because your second posting–the sentence you wrote yourself–is full of grammar, syntax and spelling errors. Most individuals with a sixth grade education can write better than that. Again, just curious.
Hal Wallace on March 15, 2011 at 11:16 am

R.King/Space Cadet, since you are the quoter for the day. Try this one on for size. A group of radicals committing treason against their country came up with this phrase, that all men are created equal.
Faith has nothing to do with civil liberties. Plus don’t be afraid to put your full name when spewing hatred and nonsense. Besides if that’s what you think why are you trolling around on the voice. Think you have some issues.