Author Of Defense Of Marriage Act Now Thinks It's Time For His Law To Get The Boot (LAT)

[kpete]

Today’s News
Wedding blues
The author of the federal Defense of Marriage Act now thinks it’s time for his law to get the boot – but for political reasons, not in support of gays.

By Bob Barr
January 05, 2009 in print edition A-13

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I’ve wrestled with this issue for the last several years and come to the conclusion that DOMA is not working out as planned. In testifying before Congress against a federal marriage amendment, and more recently while making my case to skeptical Libertarians as to why I was worthy of their support as their party’s presidential nominee, I have concluded that DOMA is neither meeting the principles of federalism it was supposed to, nor is its impact limited to federal law.

In effect, DOMA’s language reflects one-way federalism: It protects only those states that don’t want to accept a same-sex marriage granted by another state. Moreover, the heterosexual definition of marriage for purposes of federal laws — including, immigration, Social Security survivor rights and veteran’s benefits — has become a de facto club used to limit, if not thwart, the ability of a state to choose to recognize same-sex unions.

Even more so now than in 1996, I believe we need to reduce federal power over the lives of the citizenry and over the prerogatives of the states. It truly is time to get the federal government out of the marriage business. In law and policy, such decisions should be left to the people themselves.

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http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jan/05/opinion/oe-barr5

[Vickers]

1. Oh, Bob "I'm on my 2nd wife!" Barr...

Edit: he's actually on his THIRD wife.

:wtf:

Nice family values, HYPOCRITE!

[gratuitous]

2. How many times has Barr been married?

He apparently needed a lot of defending. Up yours, you bigoted piece of slime (meaning Barr, not anyone here at DU).

[Donnachaidh]

3. Barr is still desperate to be noticed

So he sees an opportunity for face time.

Guess he thinks he has another whack at the presidency in 4 years? :rofl:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

4. Too little too late

What he did has caused so much damage, I don't know that I give a rat's ass what Bob Barr thinks.

Come to think of it, nothing he does interests me. He's filth.

[xchrom]

5. i hate that numb-fuck. nt