During the election, Barack Obama said he would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, passed 12 years ago, if the legislation comes before him.

There’s the rub. The legislation has to get through the House and Senate before it hits his desk.

In November, the conservative Alliance for Marriage Foundation began to lay the groundwork for their Protect DOMA/no civil marriage equality campaign with the launch of www.ProtectDOMA.org.

AFM’s campaign is deliberately designed to build on AFM’s diverse and centrist coalition and to reach both Democratic and Republican members of the Congress.

Okay, how is denying two consenting adults the right to unite a "centrist" concept?  And it sure doesn’t celebrate diversity, either. Oh wait–that sentence is from AFM’s press release which also calls People for the American Way

one of the best known radical activist groups in the nation

Huh?  "Radical"?!  Wut? The Revolutionary Communist Brigade are radical. PFWA is like, wholesome and all-American.

So  then PFAW launched their website plus an online petition asking that people

Please take action right now to make sure Congress sends President-elect Obama the legislation to sign after he takes office.

And not to be outdone, today AFM has a petition! But somebody may want to email them through the interwebs and let them know their facts are outdated; AFM still quotes the flawed exit polls that said 70% percent of African American voters voted for Prop 8.

As the Advocate reports today:

After conducting in-depth analysis of election returns from five key California counties and using census data to estimate the racial makeup of the voters in those counties, researchers found that between 57% and 59% of African-Americans voted in favor of Proposition 8.