These people just never stop, do they?
After the Supreme Court issued a collective “whatever” to Bishop Harry Jackson and his whiny appeal to force a vote on marriage rights in the District of Columbia, which runs up against the District’s nondiscrimination policies, the National Organization for Marriage has decided that maybe the new House of Representatives [now with lots more bigots!] can help them hurt gay families in the nation’s capital:
Jackson and his supporters took their case to the Supreme Court after the D.C. Court of Appeals said that the board was within the law in making such a decision. Jackson, a minister at the Hope Christian Church in Belstville, said the court’s split decision (5 to 4) gave him reason to hope.
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation’s most vociferous opponent of gay marriage, says it will work with Congress to strike down the law.
“With a pro-marriage majority in the new Congress we will explore a number of avenues to force the District to fulfill their constitutional responsibility to voters,” NOM President Brian Brown said in a statement. “As the four Court of Appeal justices who dissented in this case made clear, the District of Columbia owes it to the voters to allow them to decide the critical issue of marriage which has existed since before there was a District of Columbia.”
When you’re filled with such bigotry and prejudice that you spend your entire life trying to hurt gay families everywhere in a malignant game of whack-a-mole, you have problems. Therapy recommended.
I thought NOM and their ilk were of the opinion that gay marriage is a state’s rights issue? Now DC (though not a state) has made a decision on it. NOM wants to get Congress involved in telling a state what to do? They can’t have it both ways.
…”force the District to fulfill their constitutional responsibility to voters…”
Seriously, WTF is he smoking?
They think, Dale, that the ability to vote to hurt other people is a “civil right.” It’s part and parcel of the Religious Right’s co-opting of the language of the Civil Rights movement, which they did not support when it was going on, but the moral authority of which they know they will never be able to best; therefore they desperately try to co-opt it to paint themselves as an oppressed minority, when all they really are is full of s**t whiners.
I love this, “activist” judges are bad but “activist” congressmen are good? or just whatever pushes their hate through? Do they have no clue that at some point it crosses Obama’s desk and he can veto it and if he does the only recourse they have is either spamming it or trying to get the senate to veto the veto. Seriously, this is why we need civics from say grade 1 or something