In an unexpected turn, the Obama administration is choosing not to repeal the Bush-era Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The ACLU released a statement on Thursday, June 12 chastising the president, stating, "When President Obama was courting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender voters, he said that he believed that DOMA should be repealed. We ask him to live up to his emphatic campaign promises, to stop making false and damaging legal arguments, and immediately to introduce a bill to repeal DOMA." Although I don't agree with their basic premise, nor the solution, it is impossible to look past the egregious fault on the president's part here. I'm afraid it only makes me like Obama less. Not standing by a promises only shows a weakness of character and should make all--whether one agrees with him at the current moment or not-- uneasy about what the Obama administration's agenda is really about.
The entire press release from the ACLU can be found here: http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/relationships/39848prs20090612.html?s_src=RSS
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To pre-empt the claims that Obama had no choice in making that filing (what is currently being done to explain away the filing), here's the Obama administration deciding not to defend another law:
http://www.aclu.org/drugpolicy/gen/10903prs20050126.html
All the Obama administration had to do was send a memo to Congress!
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