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Topic: Obama considers urging the Supreme Court to overturn California’s ban on gay marriage |
Obama considers urging the Supreme Court to overturn California’s ban on gay marriage
Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 2/21/2013 6:08:00 AM
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| WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is quietly considering urging the Supreme Court to overturn California´s ban on gay marriage, a step that would mark a political victory for advocates of same-sex unions and a deepening commitment by President Barack Obama to rights for gay couples. Obama raised expectations among opponents of the Proposition 8 ban when he declared in last month´s inaugural address that gays and lesbians must be "treated like anyone else under the law." The administration has until Feb. 28 to intervene in the case by filing a "friend of the court" brief.
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Comments: California voted for it, but the feds don´t like it. So much for whatever power is still left to the states.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
beca, 2/21/2013 6:20:52 AM (No. 9188262)
keep your big nose out of what the state voted for....YOU ARE not god...contrary to your opinion...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr this makes me furious...who does he think he is.....
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
clayusmcret, 2/21/2013 6:26:53 AM (No. 9188271)
Seems his time on the down low is starting to generate a public policy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
provide, 2/21/2013 6:29:06 AM (No. 9188273)
He thinks he is channeling Lincoln and will attempt to start a civil war to become one in history. Liberal professors would be more than willing to write that book.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Deedo, 2/21/2013 6:30:21 AM (No. 9188274)
I´m pretty sure that the President is probably gay, to be blunt. I´m not judgmental if that were to be true. I think the whole golf outing with press blackouts (so we never actually see the President on the links), the time alone with Reggie on the big bus, the separate vacations away from his wife, the terrible baseball toss, etc. etc. etc. There seems to be a lot of telltale signs.
The President has taken his 3% victory in the last election as a mandate to do whatever the heck he wants. He is completely untethered. I will not be surprised by anything this lazy, childish and narcissistic tyrant wannabe will pursue.
It will get worse before it gets better.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JimS, 2/21/2013 7:07:14 AM (No. 9188328)
Yes, #4, in future years (assuming a future USA, as we know it), I fully expect the truth to seep out--much like JFK´s womanizing. What truth? -Obama is gay, or at least bi-. Look at his realtionship with Reggie Love, the hold that Jarrett has over him, the gay roomate in Columbia, the obvious gay members of his high schoolChoom Gang -Obama´s birth made him ineligible to be POTUS
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rolfnader, 2/21/2013 7:46:21 AM (No. 9188400)
I see a bailout coming for California in exchange for Obama´s intervention as he attempts to overturn the will of the people. Will they sell out or revolt? History shows that they´ll probably sell out. Should be interesting.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Alpha91c, 2/21/2013 8:06:58 AM (No. 9188447)
Obama, blessed be his name, knows best.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hellfire, 2/21/2013 8:42:59 AM (No. 9188503)
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hellfire, 2/21/2013 8:46:49 AM (No. 9188509)
Thanks to all the slackers who voted 0bummer into office, he´ll have his own Supreme Court and won´t have to "urge"...he´ll just simply DICTATE. Isn´t America a wonderful country.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Judith, 2/21/2013 9:08:14 AM (No. 9188557)
Oh, come on. The five liberal judges attended his state of the union....that tells the world everything they need to know. Our country is being destroyed day by day and we passively submit. If the Founding Fathers came back to life today, they would be appalled.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99, 2/21/2013 10:15:37 AM (No. 9188701)
How about treating white heterosexual males like "anyone else under the law"? Or Christians? Or pro-lifers? Or military vets?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
4poster, 2/21/2013 10:36:58 AM (No. 9188757)
So how does Obama have standing? How is he inconvienced? Is he secretly ingaged to a man in California?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
artman1746, 2/21/2013 11:09:55 AM (No. 9188816)
Democrats will accept virtually anything that has a political constituency. LGBT is a good example. Most fail to understand transgender "rights" will include supporting a teacher to appear either as male or female on different days at public school.
Next comes the pedophile lobby. Oh, it won´t appear as sex with 4 year olds. Liberals know better than to jump the shark. It will come as the lowering of the age of accountability. After all; aren´t 13 year olds capable of love? And, of course we should go by their emotional age as all people "mature" at different ages. And the liberal psychiatric community has already done "studies" that show children who have had sex with adults were not mentally harmed. As soon as they get a political following the Democrats will hop right on the support bandwagon. Don´t you just see it coming?
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