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Obama and Civil Rights
Apparently Obama took over the white house domain one minute after swearing in.
A look at the civil rights sections is pretty amazing — the LGBT section comes second, but is longer and more comprehensive than the section for race. Complete text below the jump.
In keeping with his political stance during the campaign for the presidency, he’s for repealing DOMA and for civil unions. This means that being married anywhere will give acces to the federal recognition of marriage, leaving recognition by individual states behind.
Bons Mots: Frank Rich on the Warren Pick
The entire Op Ed is great, but this line sung out to me:
Warren’s defamation of gay people illustrates why, as does our president-elect’s rationalization of it. When Obama defends Warren’s words by calling them an example of the “wide range of viewpoints” in a “diverse and noisy and opinionated” America, he is being too cute by half. He knows full well that a “viewpoint” defaming any minority group by linking it to sexual crimes like pedophilia is unacceptable.
It is even more toxic in a year when that group has been marginalized and stripped of its rights by ballot initiatives fomenting precisely such fears.
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After noting that Warren’s role at the inauguration is, in the end, symbolic, [historian Timothy] McCarthy concluded that “it’s now time to move from symbol to substance.” This means Warren should “recant his previous statements about gays and lesbians, and start acting like a Christian.”
Hat tip: KipEsquire.
