White House asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ban

WASHINGTON The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a section of federal law that only recognizes male-female marriages.

In a filing with the court, the administration says Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act denies legally married same-sex couples many federal benefits that are available only to legally married heterosexual couples. Federal tax and Social Security survivor's benefits are among them.

In its brief, the administration said the provision "violates the fundamental constitutional guarantee of equal protection."

The brief was filed as the justices prepare to hear arguments next month in a challenge to the 1996 law.

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President Barack Obama last year said he personally supports gay marriage. He said in last month's inaugural address that the law should treat gay people like anyone else.

[MeBubbleHead]

Life is but a Stage

I don't know who said that first but it sounds good and real. We are all actors on the stage of life. We only pretend to be what we want to be. Homosexual deviants want to pretend to be normal like the heterosexuals and that includes the sanctity of marriage. The problem with that is behind the mirrors of life is a real world that is morality driven by God, gods, who also take precedent on the stage. Rites and rituals handed down over centuries by leaders, saints, and sage are intended to exemplify the quality of life is now endangered by the comic, inane, mockery of our show by the homosexuals "who" rights by law or not have endangered the stability of reason, faux, feeble, and imitation like life itself now shakes and trembles. We are also all children at heart and combined with the fraud of intelligence, that is nobody here really knows it all, like I said they just pretend because it makes some people feel secure, and now the security is jeopardized by self centered egotistic liberals who want the lead part in the play. So I conjure as do all people a thought a word and it is shame", shame on you liberals of the left for your gay marriage. You have defiled everything good and special in life even if it was just play acting by grown up children, you stole their marbles, and like all bullies made the good kids cry. A plague on your gay marriage!

Some of us know the gays that are being used as example of the "best of gay life" are in reality just con artists, and the tragedy is they are deluded by role obsession, struck a mundane character that won't go away, like an addiction wanting the illusion of gold they crave and covet that which the lead part offers the dream of riding off in the sunset, a hero with lover in hand. It will never be your part because the wake up call is coming, the dream of a lifetime is an empty cup. Death in spirit form is silently and subtly weaving his part into a story gone awry by the only thing that can shatter dreams. Real plagues, wars, overpopulation, pollution, mass insanity created by liberals with an agenda, and all the forces of evil and follows them mass death as prophesized thousands or years ago. It was the canto civilization mathematics that clinched it all a finite planet with an never ending population growth, well almost.

Rejoice only in the aspiration of life without end! Those with faith are exempt and know the fraud of gay rights is in knowing God. The Captain of the Ship, the one who wrote the story first, his is the lead of it all. They will steal from the bowl of life but they will never drink from the Holy Grail. Liberals will pretend and act like they know what is right but their cabaret is strictly limited, a one night performance, guaranteed to be a flop as predicted by ancient written review aka the Holy Bible. Believe in the Astronaut God, Jehovah Elohim(Father of Jesus Christ) he didn't create the infinite universe but he did invent a way to live forever.

[MerrellOBrian64]

Excellent! Now all the bigots who were in their teens and 20's when Black folks had to have their own restaurants, bathrooms, schools and churches can now see the totality of their defeat in the face of reason. Oh, they'll keep reciting their idiot cherry-picked Bible verses, just like they did when justifying throwing acid in the face of six and seven year old black school girls. Or when they put acid in a Swimming pool in St. Augustine Florida because they were Satan worshiping Christians.
Finally, the ENTIRE UNITED STATES is within a month or two from having Gay Marriage across this nation! DOMA and all 33 bans will fall in one day.

[alanrobisch]

You seenm to me angry that people have moral objections to your stance as to what a marriage is and please note you have no moral high ground on this matter just an opinion plus the repeal of DOMA does not legalize gay marriages in America. All it means is that if a couple who are legally married in states that accept the idea will be granted rights equivalent rights when it comes to benefits provided by the federal government.

Homosexuals who support gay marriages are going against the nature of human nature and the purpose of marriage whether religious or civil
Two lovers of the same sex do not usually procreate and need no special support to insure they are supported. Families are in existence as the central structure by which humans existed for millenia and no such animal even in the soviet union existed but now its suddenly a right that sine qua non for the existence of society

This is unbelievably fallacious. Where this notion came from I don't know but it has no basis in reason. Maybe it exists because of the fact that gays are loking for the same handouts as hetero's. Maybe it comes from the idea that this will create them with respect from society. It would appear that in secular society this exists and among people who believe their is a God they will show respect to all human kind, but have the absolute right to find it morally objectionable.

I met a gay man who had a partner who contracted with a woman to be a surrogate and were going to adopt the child. Why? There are many children in this society who need parents who do not have them yet this homosexual couple thought they needed to raise a child from birth. I will again ask why. We have fallen from natural experience into artificial contructs such as this.

This represents the slow and steady demise of our culture which will be one of the signs of the destruction of America when future historians examine the reason for the destruction of our culture. Its another example of the extreme selfishness our culture has fallen into

[1pheasant1]

slow_news replies:
- we always called them "cards", i.e. sitting around playing cards waiting until they were needed.

And I don't remember Mortar mentioning he was ever in combat, so he must really mastered "Hearts".
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Actually, euchre is his game, because if you have a good hand, you don't need a partner.

"Loner!"

[alanrobisch]

I see progressives are always in favor of the newest flavor now its gay marriage. Doma may be declared unconstitutional but gay marriages will not be determined contitutional but left to the states to decide and benefits will be decided by state law

[lee_mcbride]

Alanrobisch I guess we will see come June or July what SCOTUS decides, but I think you are probably right on.

[RCRawlings]

I guess slow news ran off to lick his wounds and massage his bruised ego and limited intellect concerning the Bible.
LMAO!

[Pope_slow_news]

Mortar did make you his servant like the priest you used to be when served the Catholic Church.

[oldoc44]

Really, we need the govt to get out of EVERYONES bedroom!Frankly, gay or straight, it's none of anyone elses business what goes on!! Even if some folks choose to "tolerate" homosexuality, it's not as though everyone HAS to be gay! What happened to live and let live at very least - especially on personal matters such as this!

[nojoy01]

matt6052 replies: Nojoy01, your side asserts...
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Side? I don't have a side, I was merely responding to a ridiculous "slippery slope" argument about how allowing gay marriage would eventually allow pedephiles to "marry" the object of their lust or farmer Joe to "marry" his favorite farm animal.

Don't be assuming someone has a "side" or an agenda simply because they call a stupid, ridiculous argument a stupid, ridiculous argument. :)

[oldoc44]

One thing for sure, in his second and final term we're going to see "Obama unleashed" on many issues that would have been suicide a few years back for his admin. This is probably the start and sure to include the immigration issue soon too. Go for it!

[nleeklee]

It's too bad that people don't see that God is not against diversity, and that there is plenty of diversity in the earth without having to evilly manufacture it by sanctioning immorality. This is not diversity, this is evil. Isaiah said woe to those who call evil good and good evil. Well, woe upon America. And, I don't want to say it, but if you thought 911 was something, in my opinion, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Why? Because God is holy, and He is sovereign, and He is a God of judgment. Yes, Virginia, there is a God. And, yes, Virginia, blessing comes from Him, and cursing does also. And while He can bless those who are unworthy, and especially those who believe in His Son for salvation, why should He bless whole swaths of people when they spit in His face? Sin, I believe, has its own natural consequences. We reap what we sow, and from what we are sowing now, what we reap is not going to be good. You would think someone as "smart" as Obama would know this. Apparently he is too smart for his own good. Life is too boring, and following God is too boring for people like him. He has to make life "exciting" by being all weird, and trying to change all sorts of things around. It is because he is an immature, unspiritual, and ungodly man. He is doing what his father does, as Jesus did what His Father did. Obama is of his father, the devil, and his will is to do his father's desires.

[DIONYSUSQUEER]

Benny Honey my ignorant little flamer, when the Bible refers to "Man" that is the same as "mankind" which also includes women and children or all of humanity.
It's pointless to make fun of you because it will take you the rest of the day to figure it out.

[DIONYSUSQUEER]

What is funny about it?
He tells us what he means in his word. Only the ignorant, the illiterate and fools fail to recognize what he means.
You occasionally stumble over the truth, but you quickly pick yourself up and carry on as if nothing happened.

[nleeklee]

I mean, Jesus called the religous, and devout, according to what they thought the Bible was saying, Jews, in his day, children of Satan. Obama is an evil man, and he does evil things, and this is one of them. He is a fool. Foolish people elected him. But that is what foolish people do. They don't care about what is right. They only care about what their evil heart desires. What a stark contrast? Someone for marriage only between a man and a woman, and someone for marriage both between opposite and between same sex couples. It is too bad our country is full of such idiots. Now we have to think about stupid things such as these instead of focusing on things that really matter. Don't think that such things as economic woes, and violence, and all sorts of other woes are not the result of us being corrupted as a people, as a nation. Don't think one thing doesn't have to do with the other. God is judging this nation, and will judge it. He is not pleased with it. He sees our corruptness influencing innocent children in this nation, and He hates it. I guess it takes an education at Harvard for a person to be a REAL IDIOT.

[DIONYSUSQUEER]

Benny Poo, You need a Ph.D. to come up with something as meaningless as that.