{"id":191865,"date":"2009-06-12T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/12\/obama-comes-out-for-doma\/"},"modified":"2009-06-12T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T23:02:00","slug":"obama-comes-out-for-doma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/12\/obama-comes-out-for-doma\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Comes Out for DOMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2009\/06\/obama-justice-department-defends-doma.html\">Americablog. has the scoop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, an Obama DoJ appointee made motions in a court case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, and while I guess that there is an obligation for them to defend statute, the filing invoked pedophilia, called gays freeloaders, and generally invoked every bigoted right-wing talking point out there.<\/p>\n<p>On the stump, he condemned DOMA.<\/p>\n<p>Even better, today is the 42nd anniversary of Loving v. Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>I would not hold my breath on a repeal of Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell.<\/p>\n<p>I told you so after the whole Donnie McClurkin thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americablog. has the scoop. Basically, an Obama DoJ appointee made motions in a court case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, and while I guess that there is an obligation for them to defend statute, the filing invoked pedophilia, called gays freeloaders, and generally invoked every bigoted right-wing talking point out there. On the stump, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1051,972,1030],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-hypocrisy","category-justice","category-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}