GOP: Gays don't need special legal protections
Paul Clement is the hand picked choice of John Boehner to defend the Defense Of Marriage Act in court, since the Obama Administration has come to the decision that it is unconstitutional and not defensible. The GOP decision to go ahead and defend DOMA is estimated cost to Americans of $1,500,000.00. Even the LGBT Community has to pay. Here’s part of his $1.5 mil. defense:
"Homosexuals have a great deal of political power" and are not entitled to the safeguards that courts have established for laws that discriminate against racial minorities or women", attorney Paul Clement said in a filing supporting the Defense of Marriage Act.
Either I’m missing something or Mr. Clement is grasping at straws and hoping that no one’s paying attention. Following this logic was there any real need to overturn discriminatory laws once the slaves had been freed. Maybe we didn’t really need to even abolish slavery once the majority of people no longer supported it. Did we really need to actually give women the right to vote once they started to speak up and demand their rights. After all we all know they are not really the weaker sex.
If there are laws on the books that discriminate against one group of people then we have a problem. If you ignore a problem it hasn't really gone away. Having a segment of the population that has been the subject of discriminatory laws claim their voice and demand their rights is a starting point but not the solution. Now that we have gained a little political strength will Mrs. Golinki get the same treatment as Mrs. Heterosexual Married Lady. I don’t think so. After all there is still a law that says she won’t. There isn’t to much grey area in the concept of equality. We are or we aren’t. If we don’t make things right they stay wrong.
To end on a positive note it is nice to see that conservatives are acknowledging that times are changing. The attitudes of average American’s is shifting. This is one of our countries great strengths, when we become aware of injustice we seek to remedy it.
Bill Schoenleber 10/15/2011
Joseph Osborne & Bill Schoenleber Social Curators
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