Obama releases gay rights agenda. I take it all back.
I apologize for getting my panties in a bunch about Obama’s inaction on gay rights.
Last week, the Department of Justice released a legal brief in response to a legal challenge to DOMA, the law that among other things, denies federal benefits to legally married couples. This is a law that Obama wishes to fully repeal.
The DoJ almost always defends federal laws that are challenged – a reasonable person would expect a government to defend its own laws.
The brief has some real winners for legal arguments, such as saying that it makes total sense to deny rights and benefits to gays because it saves the government money (It’s the economy, faggot! Recession and all…), and that gay people are just like uncles and nieces having sex. I wish I were kidding. It literally says those things.
The New York Times has a pretty scathing editiorial addressing this brief, pointing out, “The brief also maintains that the Defense of Marriage Act represents a “cautious policy of federal neutrality” — an odd assertion since the law clearly discriminates against gay couples”.
The president of the gay rights organization Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solmonese, penned an open letter to the President telling him that he is being not good.
Both are very informative and persuasive documents! So persuasive, indeed, that the adminsitration acknowledged that it has been being mean to the gays and that it is sorry if its actions or lack of actions have hurt our feelings and he’s gunna make it up to us right away. In fact! They even set up a website to prove that they are very much sorry. Check it out:
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