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		<title>Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA): Legal Resources and Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my travels and surfing I found this site. Warning:  it seems pretty biased from first glance as I type this in the San Jose airport.  (For instance, on the front page it has a statistic of Muslims who voted for Obama &#8212; as if that were relevant to this issue except if one is [...]]]></description>
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<p class="first-child "><span title="I" class="cap"><span>I</span></span>n my travels and surfing I found <a href="http://www.domawatch.org/index.php" target="_self">this site</a>.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 319px"><a href="http://www.domawatch.org/assets/nav/header.jpg"><img title="DOMA" src="http://www.domawatch.org/assets/nav/header.jpg" alt="A sight with an attitude" width="309" height="34" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A site without insight. </p></div>
<p>Warning:  it seems pretty biased from first glance as I type this in the San Jose airport.  (For instance, on the front page it has a statistic of Muslims who voted for Obama &#8212; as if that were relevant to this issue except if one is homophobic and xenophobic and a religious bigot as well).</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the maps are kind of cool.</p>
<p>I object to the name of the site &#8212; it should be titled the Marriage Inequality site if it&#8217;s talking about <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDefense_of_Marriage_Act&amp;ei=_CcaSdDYIImIsAOBueWXDA&amp;usg=AFQjCNHYFjIntg0FojCLF5DPmhN4FIi1nw&amp;sig2=DiQpITRjjz5r7zjJoeDFUA" target="_self">DOMA</a>.</p>
<p>See also my recent post:</p>
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<li><a class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNFqIwm_lfvpD4smXK8xwtBsve-Fsw','&amp;sig2=PAAqmaOC3vB1jxauYTzFAA')" href="../2008/10/31/bill-clinton-against-prop-8/">Bill <em>Clinton</em> Against Prop 8</a></li>
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		<title>Bill Clinton Against Prop 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan has a condition for forgiveness for President Clinton: Clinton&#8217;s recorded message went to millions of Californians overnight. If he makes the difference, we can finally forgive him for DOMA. But seriously: a great thing. He came through. I won&#8217;t forget. None of us will. The Daily Dish &#124; By Andrew Sullivan (October 31, [...]]]></description>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 264px"><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2396/2237357107_e930ac42aa.jpg?v=0"><img title="Clinton on the campaign trail" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2396/2237357107_e930ac42aa.jpg?v=0" alt="Clinton opens his mouth and lies come out." width="254" height="169" /></a><p class="first-child wp-caption-text"><span title="C" class="cap"><span>C</span></span>linton opens his mouth and lies &amp; spin fly.</p></div>
<p>Andrew Sullivan has a condition for forgiveness for President Clinton:</p>
<blockquote><p>Clinton&#8217;s recorded message went to millions of Californians overnight. If he makes the difference, we can finally forgive him for DOMA. But seriously: a great thing. He came through. I won&#8217;t forget. None of us will.</p>
<p><a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/thank-you-bill.html">The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (October 31, 2008) &#8211; Thank You, Bill Clinton</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>I disagree.  The three most malefic national personalities on the political stage today for marriage equality are (in order of maleficiousness):</p>
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<li>Bob Barr</li>
<li>Bill Clinton</li>
<li>Mitt Romney</li>
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<p>Barr, for authoring DOMA.  Clitnon for signing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act" target="_blank">DOMA</a>.  And Mitt Romeny for finding a racist law empowering the import of anti-miscegenation laws into Massachusetts to deny marriage equality to couples after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodridge_v._Department_of_Public_Health" target="_blank">Goodrich decision</a>.</p>
<p>Clinton also has the distinction of bungling <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DADT" target="_blank">Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell</a> to make serving more difficult for our troops, particularly all women in our armed forces, where its application is used as a witch-hunt for women unwilling to have sex with their comrades and superiors.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think recording a voice over for a robo call will do the trick. Remember, <a href="http://www.tinmanic.com/archives/2008/03/25/student-challenges-bill-clinton-on-doma/" target="_blank">Clinton campaigned on his signing DOMA</a>.</p>
<p>According to Sullivan, a robocall before election day would forgive him, if Proposition 8 fails.</p>
<p>According to his colleague Marc Ambinders, <a href="http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/robocalls_arent_effective.php" target="_blank">robocalls don&#8217;t work</a>.</p>
<p>Sorry Bill, too little, too late.</p>
<p>[Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mojodenbowsphotostudio/" target="_blank">Chris Denbow</a> via Flickr under Creative Commons.]</p>
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