In response to a question from me, Sarah Palin offered this exclusive response to President Obama's DOMA decision:
"I have always believed that marriage is between one man and one woman. Like the majority of Americans, I support the Defense of Marriage Act and find it appalling that the Obama administration decided not to defend this federal law which was enacted with broad bipartisan support and signed into law by a Democrat president. It's appalling, but not surprising that the President has flip-flopped on yet another issue from his stated position as a candidate to a seemingly opposite position once he was elected."
Please cite www.nationformarriage.org as the source for this statement from Sarah.
RELATED: See NOM's Roundup of Presidential Hopefuls and their statements on Obama's DOMA decision here.
UPDATES - here are some of the first media responses to this statement:
- Ben Smith of Politico: Palin 'appalled' by Obama DOMA move
- Andy Barr of Politico: Sarah Palin: President Obama "appalling" on DOMA
- Time Magazine's The Page: Palin "appalled" by Obama's DOMA turn
- CNN's Political Ticker: Palin: Obama's position on Defense of Marriage Act "appalling"
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Yest again, moral clarity from a real leader with a steel spine and vision. Obama is amateur night at the Improv and the joke is on America.
What is ironic is that Obama might be preventing or delaying legally recognized SSM in Maine and
Rhode Island.
If the First Circuit strikes down DOMA on equal protection grounds, then marital restrictions on the basis of sex would be suspect within the Circuit, and likely to be struck down in summary judgment in subsequent cases within the Circuit.
But if the First Circuit decides to dismiss the appeal because of a lack of a live case or controversy, the the ruling stands, while only applying to the litigants in the cases. At most, DOMA is invalid in Massachusetts only.
If Sarah Palin becomes President in 2012, the world will truly come to an end.
The world already came to an end in November, 2008.
That's funny Don. But no, the "world" as you call it, was only the world of bigotry that came to an end. The world of acceptance and tolerance began in 2008, I'm just saying the world the way it should be will come to an end and return to the Dark Ages if Palin is elected because she will destroy everything civil rights and Obama worked to build. And not just civil rights but also relations with other countries. Thanks to Bush, everyone hated America, now people are not so frustrated with it thanks to Obama, if Palin comes into power, I bet anything people will hate the USA once more.
WTF are you two on about? The world does not revolve around the US, you know. Read the newspaper lately? There's much scarier stuff going on overseas than whatever could possibly result from someone being voted into office whose policies you don't agree with. Don't like Obama? Didn't like Bush? At least you don't have to live under the control of a murderous tyrant like Gaddafi. You have no idea how lucky you are to live in a free society, even if things don't always go your way.
adsf, why are you reading a blog of an organization devoted to fighting for marriage in the US.?
Lots of causes in the world, weird to come here and complain we aren't reporting on uprisings in Libya, etc.
Don't you think?
With all due respect, Maggie, I was responding to the fact that both Sean and Don believe that having the wrong person in office will somehow bring about the end of the world. This is not the case. As I said, the world does not revolve around the US.
adsf, I know it doesn't revolve around the USA. I'm from Canada actually. I wasn't literally saying it would end the world, I was saying that Palin is horrible and would send the United States back into the Dark Ages and many countries would hate it once again. But you're right, Libya is in absolute turmoil and it's horrible. It is worse than Nom's silly battle over marriage, which will end in failure eventually anyway, but I just find people frustrating when they're like this. But yes, you're right, there are more important things than worry about a trivial organization like this.
Let's clear up the confusion here:
1) The world does, in fact, revolve around The United States of America. The terms for any country to refute that is that they cease accepting American foreign aid.
2) Bigotry is defined as the blatant racial discrimination against homosexuals of color practiced by causcasion homosexuals.
3) The goal of The United States of America is not to be loved by the world but rather to demonstrate to the world the unlimited potential of capitalism and democracy.
4) Despite his delusiions of grandeur, Obama is not sufficiently powerful to end the world and he is going to find that he is not sufficiently powerful to end The United States of America either.
I don:t know how anyone who believes in the natural law could say that two males copulating is the same as marriage between man & woman.
I don't know how anyone can still believe in the natural law. We are no longer "ruled" by nature when we enter civil society. It's up to us to choose how we want to organize ourselves. Or are you an anarchist, Thomas Ahern, who would prefer there to be no civil society at all? What a puzzling, and surely unsustainable, view.
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