Obama administration will no longer defend DOMA

I don't recall such promises for the 2008 election.

 

Then why not use that same social science to prohibit single parenthood?

Right, exactly.

 

Because that is not constitutionally available at this point.

Look, I tend to agree with you. Although I mostly think religion is even a cover for just thinking it's "icky" or "unnatural."

But you've got to get five votes from the Supreme Court, and these are the challenges you face. And they are steep, perhaps insurmountable. In fact, likely insurmountable.

 

Do you not have a computer at your house?

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/07/is_stephen_baldwin_the_first_a.html

 

That must be a fun table to be around on Thanksgiving.

 

Billy has promised to leave the country if Daniel ever makes another movie.

 

Stephen Baldwin once sat in the parking lot of an adult bookstore writing down license plates of every car that pulled in.
There's a parking spot for you at the Admidinejad office building, sir.
Back on topic, I like what I'm seeing from Obama the past week or so. This is the guy this white middle-aged dude voted for...or if you're Bill Maher, the badass black man we need running this country.

 

The Republican response, a big yawn:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/us/politics/25marriage.html?_r=1&hp

 

I think the Times is wrong that gay-marriage elicited a relative yawn because social issues are taking a backseat to economic issues. Haven't they noticed all the fundie issues making their way through state legislatures and the U.S. House?

It's just that, as others here have noted, gay marriage is something that is rapidly becoming a mainstream idea (even though Republicans in Indiana, for example, still are trying to press for a Constitutional amendment against gay marriage). This quote was most telling:

“The wedge has lost its edge,” said Mark McKinnon, a Republican strategist who worked for President George W. Bush during his 2004 campaign, when gay marriage ballot measures in a dozen states helped turn out conservative voters.

 

Concurred.

 

I wonder what Tony's opinion of this was.

http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/blog-4183-ag-van-hollen-domestic-partnerships-are-unconstitutional.html