Eat my briefs

[greatbear]

There's been a lot of action in the various gay blogs regarding the brief filed by the Department of Justice against the repeal of DOMA. Here is the Obama DOJ filing a brief packed with text comparing homosexuality with incest and pederasty, among other disproven nastiness. Yes, I was pissed, this being more in line with Bush-era right-wing spew or rhetoric used by religious groups like the AFA and the Mormons for the passage of CA Proposition 8.

Well, lookie here. Sure enough, here's a leftover Bush-era appointee, a Moron Mormon, no less. These people have no honor. They live for their hateful little causes, their deranged beliefs, their crazy superstitions, and the money that they rake in for it all. Fuckers.

Obama is not going to throw me under any bus. Not unless he's going to be sitting in back of it. And anyone who might try saying that things might have turned out better with that other choice can DIAF.

Edit: The last paragraph was meant to say that I will give up my fight for equal rights the day that Barack Obama relinquishes his. The Garage of Mayhem is not a place to pull into if you expect to find political correctness. That's not to be found among the parts and services. I just don't want to hear

because that's not available here either.

It seems I got sucked into a poorly reported investigative piece along with a lot of other people, and I was not in the best of moods to deal with it in a more levelheaded way. Still, there's some rather nasty underpinnings to be found and they are not becoming of an administration headed by one self-proclaimed as a "fierce defender of LGBT rights". For a far, far better insight on the brief, it's meaning and a forthright analysis, head over to joeatlarge's post here. Leave it to Joe to do the right thing as usual. And do so while lookin' so sexy. ;)

Comments

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

While I agree with your sentiment, there is a problem of personal responsibility. If that isn't the official position, why was it released? Doesn't anyone read these things?

So now what? Is it going to be withdrawn? Is someone going to get fired? I'm interested to see how this is handled.

Combine this with the other changes in policy, along with Obama's total inability to even mention SSM makes me very worried.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

I am sure that there are behind-the-scenes shenanigans at play with all these policy changes and whatnot, it's the nature of such politics. An elected/assembled administration has to work with or against a much larger in-place network of people and ideologies. Not to mention the graft, corruption, old-boy networks and the like, and the public itself. I am far from a legislative or political expert, but being that this brief is a published document, I assume it would have to be signed off on somehow and solidified, or is it something like a bill or proposal that is made public and needs to go through some mechanism of codification and passage? Besides, this blast of text runs essentially 180 degrees counter to so much of the Democratic platform, will it be retracted, edited or otherwise nullified or changed? There's been a lot of flipfloppery and outright reversals regarding SSM and other gay issues by this administration, and someone there should be smart enough to know that there would be serious protests and calls to the carpet on this shit.

Gay pride is in DC this weekend, I expect things to get a little more than heated.