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Mr. Madden, if Barack Obama really wants “people [to] have good information” perhaps journalists should take the time to vet-out the legal and religions betrayals and hypocrisies he so cavalierly tosses over.
The fallacy of Obama’s opposition to marriage equality is a legal no-brainer that should not escape a second year law student. Just HOW many children have been left behind?! Why do journalists lap- up the spoon-fed pabulum that the Madison Avenue propagandists feed to them? I guess $400 million can buy just about anything in America including the brain-dead silence of a comatose press. Are the proverbial watch dogs now mere toothless pandering lap dogs?
Look folks, this is really, really, simple: Obama favors civil unions over marriage equality because he claims (1) it’s a 'state's rights' issue and that (2) his “deep faith” and “church history” dictate that marriage is between a man and a women.
Wall? What wall? Unlike the famous religion speech of JFK (obviously more talked about than read) that journalists cite in defense of Obama’s religiosity (JFK never flaunted his religion!) Obama is not willing, like JFK, to “solemnly swear” to uphold an “absolute separation of church and state" - JFK’s words not mine, go read the famous speech conveniently redacted by Obama’s lap dog journalists.
First, obviously, if the right to marry was a state’s rights issue then Loving v. Virginia (a Supreme Court case Obama is intimately familiar with) would have been decided differently, Virginia’s discriminatory marriage laws would not have been struck down, and Obama’s parents would have remained felons on over half the states. No-brainer!
When it comes to fundamental civil rights the “states rights” argument is classic Jim Crow segregationist rubbish. Perhaps Obama thinks same-sex couples are not 'persons' within the ambit of ‘due process’ and ‘equal protection’ clauses of the 14th amendment? Obama’s 'states' rights' argument was flatly rejected by the Supreme Court decades ago in Loving v. Virginia. Shame, shame, shame on this so-called “civil rights lawyer” who so unconscionably misrepresents the law - as if The People don’t already have enough reason to despise silver-tongued lawyers who exploit their ignorance to pull the wool over their eyes.
Second, not once has this ‘civil rights lawyer’ offered a LEGAL reason for denial of this fundamental civil right. Is it REALLY too much to ask that a so called civil rights lawyer proffer LEGAL reasons for denial of civil rights? Christian nation indeed! This might be a good place to vomit.
In fact, the only reason he has ever given for his intent to deny this 'fundamental' civil, secular, right to an entire class of his fellow-Americans is his religious beliefs, his "church history" and his "deep faith." With all due respect, on precisely what LEGAL basis can a so-called civil rights lawyer justify violating the First Amendment for the nefarious purpose of denying a fundamental civil right that is protected under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments? In case no one has noticed that is not one Constitutional violation but THREE! So far only one legal writer has spelled it out loud and clear, See "Untangling Barack Obama's audacious mumbo jumbo," by John P. Mortimer, at http://ebar.com/common/inc/article_print.php?sec=guest_op&article=73.
In light of the fact that Obama’s own Christian denomination and former pastor are openly, unequivocally, unabashedly, and un-apologetically in favor of full marriage equality (not mere ‘separate but equal' Jim Crow civil unions) Barack Obama can not blame his prejudice on his “church history” – gimmie a break. In fact Barack Obama has betrayed both his first legal principals as well as his own Christian denomination’s religious principals. This from a civil rights lawyer?! How convenient to blame his prejudice on his religion! To hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy, add betrayal, betrayal, betrayal.
If Barack Obama becomes president of the United States the proverbial wall between church and state will be about as effective as a screen door in a submarine. To quote Christopher Hitchens, "Mr. Jefferson! Build up this wall."
