Obama defends DOMA – Irony still lost on him.

Dirty, nasty queers and their sinful lust for equality.

Someday, whether it be far into the future or relatively soon, Obama will feel great shame for his part in such a repulsive civil rights abuse. A man, who knows himself the sting of prejudice and yet he can not find the balls to do what is right and constitutionally sound. Its amazing to think he had once supported full marriage equality, until of course, he ran for president. It is odd  how the glow of power can shred integrity like cheesecloth to a knife. However, I digress.

The Massachusetts Attorney General, Martha Coakley, who filed the suit, is currently running for the seat of late Edward Kennedy. Her office received word of the administrations filing and said they would file a response in court. Her office claims that the nearly 16,000 couples in Mass are being unfairly denied their federal marriage rights.

The Justice Department is at odds with Massachusetts — the first state to allow gay marriage — over a 1996 federal law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Massachusetts sued in July, saying that law is discriminatory and deprives gay couples in the state of some federal spousal benefits.

The Obama administration agrees the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, is discriminatory and wants it repealed, but says it has an obligation to defend laws enacted by Congress while they are on the books and can be reasonably defended.

The law “does not prohibit gay and lesbian couples from marrying, nor does it prohibit the states from acknowledging same-sex marriages,” according to the court filing by Assistant Attorney General Tony West.

Massachusetts, the filing continues, is trying to claim individuals have a right to federal benefits based on marital status.

“There is, however, no fundamental right to marriage-based federal benefits,” according to the 36-page filing.

It is easy to argue that there is no fundamental right to federal marriage based benefits, if no one had access to them. However, you allow one group of people access to marriage benefits, you lose credibility when discussing things as vague concepts that have no weight in the real world. Once a peron or group is given special treatment over another, it seems the height of offense to claim no one has the right to such a thing. I understand that Obama has said he must defend the law while it is on the books, but I wonder what the case would be were it a law that affected blacks in a negative way. Would the law deserve his support then? I have a feeling, if this were the case, he would have no problem claiming the law to be racist or prejudice and thus, unworthy of continuation. That is, however, all speculation and none of us may ever know.

Read the full story at Boston.com

8- The Mormon Proposition

Salt Lake Shitty, Utah

A new film, entitled “8- The Mormon Proposition”, attempts to shed some light on the controversial involvement of the Mormon church and proposition 8. The film was directed by Reed Cowan of David v. Goliath Productions and has already been submitted for consideration at Sundance.

It will probably be many years before we see the full extent of the involvement of the Mormon church, but there is no denying that they are seeing the fruits of their labor at this very moment. There has been an increasing tide of anger and push-back towards the Mormon church and it’s not solely from LGBT camps. Having many Mormon friends myself, I often wonder how these past events will end up affecting them and their places of worship. As history continues to push towards equality, what will its view of such a divisive organization be? It wasn’t so long ago that they suffered a public relations disaster in the form of their racist views on which ethnicities were allowed to serve in the priesthood. Amazingly, in the face of public pressure, they claimed that God realized that being a racist blood fart was a bad idea and was even worse for the church. I suppose God realized how hard it was to fill the pews when they were spiritually lynching people from the pulpit.

It truly is odd how often deities are ignorant, when it comes to compassion for their own creations.

“8 – The Mormon Proposition”

For those of you who are Facebook inclined, there is also a fan page that contains further information. If you wish to see this film, I suggest signing up. I suggest it with much suggestitude.

“8″ Facebook group

We must stay focused and get to the bottom of this. The Mormon church is rolling in money and if any of that freely given cash was obtained or used illegally, we need to show them the hard end of the IRS’ boot. On top of that, have any of you ever been inside on of their churches? Tackkkyyyyy….