SO GLAD

Thursday, February 24, 2011
So I'm sure everyone's heard by now that the President has decided that the Department of Justice will no longer be defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). DOMA is a putrid piece of discriminatory legislation championed by the homophobes of the right and religious fundamentalists who apparently have some sort of difficulty with that pesky Establishment Clause. GOOD RIDDANCE, DOMA. YOU SUCK.

While I am simply DELIGHTED that the President has decided to do the right thing here, I can't help but think that this may cost him a second term. And then I thought, "Who gives a shit? LBJ decided not to seek reelection on his own, and he's still the greatest civil rights President in history!*" And then I thought, "Well, I do, because I don't want some right-wing whackadoo as the CinC." And then I thought, "True, but such civil rights come at a political cost, and no one wants equal rights for the LGBT community more than me." And then I thought, "Being an adult is hard. I need a sock puppet, so I can simply agree with myself and be done with it."

In short, I'm very proud of our President, and I believe that whatever political fallout occurs as a result of his decision, it will be worth it. I hope, I hope.

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*Although he had other issues, for sure for sure, the man stood up on the issue of Civil Rights.

7 comments:

vince said...

You know how to tell he did the right thing? The far right went into one massive hissy fit about it.

As a president he's not perfect, and there are things I really wish he'd do differently, but he is so much better than any even remotely-possible candidate the Republicans have floated that it's not funny.

Carol Elaine said...

Re: President Obama - what Vince said.

I'm torn about his chances for 2012 as well (including whether or not I want him to even run - there are times he really pisses me the hell off), but when he steps up to the plate and does the right thing - as he has in this instance - I'm very happy that he's the president.

Even better? Senator Feinstein - one of my senators and one I've had issues with as well - immediately committed to introduce legislation to repeal DOMA. Well done, Senator. Well done indeed.

Nathan said...

Well, that link totally didn't work.

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z462/nathangendzier/Picture1.png

Janiece said...

Nathan, you TOTALLY MAKE ME LAUGH. You and your ZOMBIE PANCREAS.

Juan Federico said...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110228/us_yblog_thelookout/the-case-that-changed-obamas-mind-on-defense-of-marriage-act

Interesting article on this very thing.

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Janiece said...

Juan, I heard about that case on a Slate Podcast. Regardless of what you believe, it's hard to imagine that tax bill being in any way fair.