Minimum Wage Increases Passed in All Five States Where It Was on the Ballot

[Derideo_Te]

So your solution is to force them to do what you want on a federal level

You mean like the right did when it passed DOMA?

You mean the DOMA that was signed into law by President Bill Clinton?

That bill by the way, doesn't force states to do anything, it gives them the freedom to make their own choice on the matter.

DOMA prohibited the Federal government from recognizing same sex marriage spouses thereby denying them their Constitutional equal protection under the law rights.

And it was passed by veto proof Republican majorities in both houses of Congress so it would have gone into law regardless as to whether Clinton signed it or not.

Nice deflection. Clinton still signed it into law when he could of easily protested it and not signed it. A Democratic President signed it into law, that is a fact you cannot lie your way out of.

DOMA does not prohibit states from allowing gay marriage, and thus only "prohibits" Federal benefits to citizens of states that choose to not recognize gay marriage in the first place.

So much for the "party of choice".

Clinton admits that he made a mistake by signing it but even if he vetoed it the Republicans would still have imposed it on the nation.

Your ignorance of the text of DOMA is your problem. That you are forced to lie about what I actually posted says volumes.

 

[theHawk]

So your solution is to force them to do what you want on a federal level

You mean like the right did when it passed DOMA?

You mean the DOMA that was signed into law by President Bill Clinton?

That bill by the way, doesn't force states to do anything, it gives them the freedom to make their own choice on the matter.

DOMA prohibited the Federal government from recognizing same sex marriage spouses thereby denying them their Constitutional equal protection under the law rights.

And it was passed by veto proof Republican majorities in both houses of Congress so it would have gone into law regardless as to whether Clinton signed it or not.

Nice deflection. Clinton still signed it into law when he could of easily protested it and not signed it. A Democratic President signed it into law, that is a fact you cannot lie your way out of.

DOMA does not prohibit states from allowing gay marriage, and thus only "prohibits" Federal benefits to citizens of states that choose to not recognize gay marriage in the first place.

So much for the "party of choice".

Clinton admits that he made a mistake by signing it but even if he vetoed it the Republicans would still have imposed it on the nation.

Your ignorance of the text of DOMA is your problem. That you are forced to lie about what I actually posted says volumes.

Typical Progressive, you can't back up your own lies, so you resort to calling others of what you are doing.

Read it in weep. No where does this text prohibit states from recognizing "same sex marriage" if they choose too.


SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

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  This Act may be cited as the `Defense of Marriage Act'.

SEC. 2. POWERS RESERVED TO THE STATES.

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  (a) IN GENERAL- Chapter 115 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding after section 1738B the following:

`Sec. 1738C. Certain acts, records, and proceedings and the effect thereof

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  `No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.'.

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  (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT- The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 115 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1738B the following new item:

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    `1738C. Certain acts, records, and proceedings and the effect thereof.'.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE.

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  (a) IN GENERAL- Chapter 1 of title 1, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

`Sec. 7. Definition of `marriage' and `spouse'

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  `In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word `marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word `spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.'.

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  (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT- The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 1 of title 1, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 6 the following new item:

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    `7. Definition of `marriage' and `spouse'.'.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.

 

[Derideo_Te]

You just proved that I was right!

This is what DOMA says;

`In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word `marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word `spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.'.

This is what I posted;

DOMA prohibited the Federal government from recognizing same sex marriage spouses thereby denying them their Constitutional equal protection under the law rights.

Now run along and play with yourself and stop wasting my time.