Comments on: Carney suggests no moratorium on DOMA-related deportations

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Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:33:49 +0000

[...] fact, apparently Immigration equality asked in May and July of 2011 about the possibility of a blanket policy to defer action on the green card [...]

By: FAEN

FAEN — Fri, 13 May 2011 22:10:31 +0000

The right thing to do would be to halt all deportations of same sex binational couples until DOMA is ruled on-naturally, they went the other way.

By: Wilbur

Wilbur — Fri, 13 May 2011 05:19:15 +0000

To which predictions are you alluding? Serious question.

By: KevininMich

KevininMich — Fri, 13 May 2011 01:41:37 +0000

Obama is such a disappointment and not just because of his indifference to the plight of gay and lesbian Americans. It doesn’t cost him a thing to suspend deportation of the legal spouses of American citizens. What sort of man goes on record as saying a law is unconstitutional, and then sits by and watches families broken up? I’d like to see him explain to the children and parents of these couples why it’s ok to break up their families. What a spineless wimp. It’s depressing how GOP predictions about him turned out to be true.

By: Randy King

Randy King — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:44:18 +0000

[C]ertainly no legislation can be supposed more wholesome and necessary in the founding of a free, self-governing commonwealth, fit to take rank as one of the coordinate States of the Union, than that which seeks to establish it on the basis of the idea of the family, as consisting in and springing from the union for life of one man and one woman in the holy estate of matrimony; the sure foundation of all that is stable and noble in our civilization; the best guaranty of that reverent morality which is the source of all beneficent progress in social and political improvement.

Murphy v. Ramsey, 114 U.S. 15, 45 (1885).

Question:

Was the 1967 Loving v Virginia ruling based on the 1967 definition of the word marriage, or was it based on the expanded 1997 definition of the word marriage?

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:23:31 +0000

Asked why Obama didn’t address how the current immigration law directly impacts LGBT Americans, Carney replied, “He gave a pretty long, comprehensive speech.”

Apparently not. Or does the White House feel we are unworthy of mention?

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 11 May 2011 19:33:36 +0000

No one has asked the President to wave a magic wand and violate his oath to the Constitution. The Attorney General appointed by the President made the decision to delay deportation for those in same sex marriages who were married in states or the District of Columbia until suits now in the federal court system have been heard. This is an administrative decision that will not harm this nation at all. If the courts resolve this issue and over turn section 3 of DOMA, will the President ask anyone for the money to reunite the families torn apart? I don’t think so. Will those subject to deportation continue to pay taxes and live as law abiding residents until they are declared Persona non Grata ? I believe that is what will happen.

The President has to decide if he believes in the promises of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution or if he wants to be a right-wing religious bigot. In this case there is no middle ground.