A group in Boston is so determined to have President Obama honor his campaign promise to repeal the dreadfully dumb Defense of Marriage Act they have filed a lawsuit challenging a portion of the act that prevents the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages. The Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders filed the suit in a Massachusetts court Tuesday.
Daily Kos is reporting that Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, the Republican frontrunner to oppose whomever President Obama appoints as a candidate to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, is so notorious a homophobe he announced William Smith as the selection for chief council on the Republican Senate Judiciary Committee. Smith, it seems, great scholarly mind he is, likes to compare homosexuality to both bestiality and pedophilia.
It is hard not to, albeit from a safe distance, look at Tuesday’s special election held in California where voters – a small number to be precise – rejected five budget measures that would have restored fiscal strength to the state certain to be bankrupt, and wonder why the constitution grants the power to the citizens of California to determine their own fate when they cannot make reasoned, responsible choices. Voting to overturn a Supreme Court ruling that a gay marriage is fundamentally unconstitutional was unconscionable, but casting ballots to accept no responsibility for a financial crisis that threatens all aspects of the state’s infrastructure from education to roads, well, it may well be time to remove the state’s ballot measure system for the good of all.
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