Once again ignoring the U.S.
Constitution, Emperor Obama affirmed his position that Americans in states have
no right to define marriage as between one man and one woman.
Remember when we used to expect our
presidents to follow the U.S. Constitution and its 10th Amendment:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states
respectively, or to the people.”
In a historic
argument for gay rights, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the Supreme
Court to overturn California’s same-sex marriage ban and turn a skeptical eye
on similar prohibitions across the country.
The Obama
administration’s friend-of-the-court brief marked the first time a U.S.
president has urged the high court to expand the right of gays and lesbians to
wed. The filing unequivocally calls on the justices to strike down California’s
Proposition 8 ballot measure, although it stops short of the soaring rhetoric
on marriage equality Obama expressed in his inaugural address in January.
California is
one of eight states that give gay couples all the benefits of marriage through
civil unions or domestic partnership, but don’t allow them to wed. The brief
argues that in granting same-sex couples those rights, California has already
acknowledged that gay relationships bear the same hallmarks as straight ones.
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