Down With DOMA, says Obama

WHEN BILL CLINTON became president in 1993, after twelve years of republcian presidential ascendancy, conservative americans pitched a tizzy, went off like a bucket of bottle rockets over a campfire. They started roaming around in the woods in packs, carrying powerful weapons, promising to, um, make the world a better place, or whatever; the infamous, albeit short lived "militia movement" was short circuited by timothy McVeigh's mass murder in oklahoma city. This monstrous act turned the country against the militia folks, and they quietly went away.

Exactly what was the militia movement of the early 1990s? History will have to tell. Was it a celebration of the second amendment? You can think of easier ways. An expression of lack of trust in the regular professional american military? Any clues, anyone?

Undaunted, newt gingrich, spearheading a list of right wing proposals frightening enough to reenergize the right, led the great 1994 takeover of congress by the republicans. Emboldened, they promulgated all kindsa craziness, such as the 1996 "Defense of Marriage Act", sort of a rear action final offensive in retreat, using the federal government to strike one last blow against gay rights in a world increasingly tired of needless cruelty and bigotry.

So the federal government defends traditional marriage, and nobody seems to care. State after state is approving gay marriage. Society is approving gay marriage. Conservatism, on this issue, is being left behind, as always, as today's liberalism becomes tomorrow's conservatism.

Obama wants the U.S. supreme court to overturn the DOMA, and indeed soon the case will be heard, and, most probably, found unconstitutional, by a five to four vote. Good old justice Kennedy, always good for that fifth vote of sanity.

Anybody who wants to can file a brief at the high court, and thousands are, most of which one might imagine end up in the dumpster. Why obama's opinion matters anymore than anyones else's is questionable; hes has never suffered the discrimminatin of being gay in a society unfriendly to gay folk.

But rock on, mister president. Hell, the hatred which conservatives feel for you is so deep and wide that no amount of corredt thinking on your part can possibly fuel it further, and later in life, you can at least claim that you once tried to talk some sense into some sense into people who needed it badly.