We have a bigot in the White House. There is no other way to say it.

Do you think they’re getting benefits under this program? Highly unlikely. Sure, civilian members of the military might, but active duty? Good luck. And in any case, they couldn’t file for benefits because then they’d be outing themselves under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

Duh

Who the HELL is advising Obama???? They have REALLY fu–ed this up. Every day it gets worse.

And the WH isn’t saying what the so called benefits are?

I mean WTF????????????

Seems like many parts of the country are coming to terms with their homophobia. The O Admin is doing what they can to stop this progress and turn the populace back to 1980.

It makes me sick. Is Obama really a black homophobic bigot? The DOMA case certainly indicts that he has issues.

Can you say Rahm Emaunel?

Mornin’ Lisa and Firedogs,

The Great Orange Satan Weighs In with a little snark of his own.

yeh, old dickhead Rahm. Obama needs to tell him to STFU and get a handle on this real quick.

Stick a fork in him — and twist it.

Actually, The insult here is couched in perfectly symmetrical irony. The straw that broke the camel’s back was the DOJ’s demeaning, incendiary brief in support of DOMA. To “make up for” it, the President extends a few benefits to a few same-sex partners, but not the most important ones — healthcare coverage & retirement payments — BECAUSE DOMA WON’T ALLOW THOSE BENEFITS.

The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com

Who cares. More people whining that they can’t mooch off the public dollar

Oh yeah, Rahm Emaunel. I can’t even begin to describe the sinking feeling I had when I learned that he would be chief of staff. I’m just glad I don’t suffer from motion sickness.

I honestly believe we are on the way to equality but Obama better move or get out of the way.

It’s disgraceful

As a big fan of Obama I’m extremely disappointed in his positions on LGBT rights.

I doubt he is a bigot, but I think he’s taking very bad advice from his handlers.

DADT should’ve been eliminated when he came into office, along with the other immediate actions they implemented, and the whole DOMA stance has been a real head scratcher.

I think the folks in Washington think the backlash on LGBT issues will be bigger than it really is. I don’t think Obama’s a bigot either, but I think he’s afraid of fighting this battle right now. And I also think he’s really screwing up how he tries to put this back on the backburner.

I had to laugh when Obama’s minions came out and said Obama hadn’t read the DOMA brief that was written I think by an old leftover Bush DOJ lawyer.

Guess SOMEONE in the WH ought to be reading this stuff, wouldn’t ya think???

And the lawyer needs to be fired TOday.

WHAT. A. CLUSTERF–K.

At this point how can you define Obama any other way than by using the term bigot?

Rahm Emanuel is the employee of the president. The President is responsible for him and his actions. Obama knew exactly what he was getting in Emanuel.

It excludes health care because the Defense of Marriage Act (the one that the Obama Justice Department recently defended with a bigoted, anti-gay brief) bans the federal government from offering health benefits to same-sex partners. So Obama has no power to offer such benefits, as long as DOMA is on the books.

I don’t think Obama is a bigot, but I do think that he lacks the necessary courage to make major changes.

However, notice that he did make a gesture when the GLBT community raised a stink. Keep making a stink, and he’ll do more. That’s what he responds to.

Obama is wearing thin on me. He might be a one termer if he keeps pissing off every interest group that voted for him.

he wanted a pit bull.

Now he needs to put a leash and muzzle on him and put him in his crate.

I already sent this response to their latest fund-raising request:

“Until I get my gay rights, you don’t get my gay money.”

I don’t suppose anyone here really cares that most people don’t breathlessly follow every move that ANY administration makes.

He’s a bigot.

What do you need? Flash cards?

SING OUT LOUISE!!!!!

Everyone is looking at the Whitehouse but no one is looking at DOJ. The administration reapplied the strictures of limited political interference between Whitehouse and DOJ as they should have.

DOJ presented a defense of DOMA that had an egregious anti-gay bias. Who wrote and presented this brief? It could have been one of those Liberty U. grads hand picked by Monica Goodling by the sound of the brief. It was up to Eric Holder and the powers that be at the DOJ to know what was going to be presented in court. FAIL.

Eric Holder’s tenure at DOJ does not have a lot going for it so far and now he has embarassed the administration yet again.

It’s a good thing I have a fierce advocate in the White House. /s A new level of pathetic gestures in my book.

That still doesn’t change the fact that Obama has not said ONE WORD about it!

So, does this mean same sex dates are allowed at the White House Christmas Party, but must find their own health care?

1) The DoJ is compelled to defend DOMA as it’s the law of the land.

2) As long as DOMA is in place, possible benefits are limited. Get rid of DOMA, the limits go away.

3) The best way to end DOMA is through the Congress, as both Laurence Tribe and OPM’s John Berry have stated. Why? Because, as Tribe notes, you don’t want a Supreme Court run by John Roberts deciding this thing:

As someone who wants to see DOMA dismantled and invalidated, I would love it if this ninth circuit case would evaporate into the ether.

Even though I personally believe that DOMA is unconstitutional, I think that this particular lawsuit is very vulnerable; it’s not anywhere near as strong as the one that was brought in the federal district court in Massachusetts [a suit filed by Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders].

In an environment where the Supreme Court is still quite conservative, what makes a suit a strong one is that it finds a point of entry in which it’s possible to invalidate a law in a number of its applications by using more of a scalpel that might appeal to five justices rather than a bludgeon that will almost certainly ask more of the court than it is willing to do.

What’s strong about the Massachusetts case is that these are concrete situations of people who are legally married under the laws of states like Massachusetts or Vermont, and who are being discriminated against by the federal government with respect to federal benefits simply because they are same-sex couples. There’s no other difference between them and other couples in that state, and the court could agree with that without accepting any of the broader theories advanced in the [Smelt] lawsuit in the central district of California, which is basically a bet-the-farm lawsuit that almost dares a conservative Supreme Court to slap it down.

[…]

There are ways for the president to get rid of DOMA. He can advocate for its repeal, he can eventually urge the solicitor general to join in a more surgical attack, but he certainly isn’t obliged to go along with every plaintiff who brings a lawsuit.

The important point here is that the solicitor general traditionally seeks to dismiss lawsuits against federal laws whenever there is a plausible basis to do it. A lot of the outcry about the administration’s position doesn’t take that institutional reality into account.

4) The people most loudly demagoguing the DoJ’s DOMA brief — and at least one gay activist who dislikes the brief isn’t exactly fond of how it’s being demagogued — seem to be confusing or (deliberately?) conflating a DoJ lawyer’s somewhat lazy cites of case law — cites that were likely used in this brief simply because they were used in prior DoJ briefs responding to prior DOMA challenges — with OMGOMGOBAMAHATEZTEHGHEYZZZ!!!

My final words on this issue will be; Persons with OCD/Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are comfortable only when their fixation is unchallenged and become very distraught when factual reality conflicts with their cozy little habitat of disinformation and falsehoods.
The primary instance occurred when “comfort” was demonstrated with a Black Gay Male stage performer that fictitiously claimed that Jesus “cured” him from his Homosexuality. The present discourse came about as Revenge upon the Gay response to this issue of converting gays into straights. Remember that OCD people are exceptionally vengeful. Their mentality is one of perfection from inside their boxes.
This is reality:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re…..122106.htm

As for the “unnamed source” Pam Spaulding cites from the NYT: That’s funny, because this benefit package has been in the works for a while, pretty much ever since Berry was picked to run OPM; it took that long to try and figure out just how much they could do without breaking the law, meaning DOMA (which again, Congress will have to repeal as 1) the Smelt case won’t do it and 2) even a strong case like the Massachusetts case will have a tough time in the Roberts USSC). Obama may have moved up the timing to try and calm down the people Jon Aravosis stirred up, but it was coming out soon anyway. (By the way, here’s what a prominent GLBT writer has to say about Aravosis’ demagoguing this issue.)

The only demagogury is coming from President Barry Prejean.

He’s a lying sack of shit, Phoenix Woman, and there’s no two ways about it.

The real story is he knows how easy it is to play the LBGT “leadership.” They fall over on a faint and kiss the feet of ANYONE who claims to like them. The fac thjat they’ll turn right around and stab us all in the back — or in Barry’s case the front — isrigorously ignored