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House GOP To Supreme Court: Gay People Are Too Powerful To Get Equal Rights
By Ian Millhiser on Jan 23, 2013 at 9:00 am
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For nearly two years, House Republicans paid conservative superlawyer Paul Clement $520 an hour to defend the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act in federal court and then sent the bill to the American taxpayer. In total Clement has now cost the American people up to $3 million for his efforts on behalf of this unconstitutional law. Last night, we taxpayers finally found out what we were paying for a 60 page brief explaining why the justices should leave marriage discrimination untouched.
As decades of precedent establish that the Constitution should provide a shield to minority groups when prejudice leaves them without adequate recourse to the political process, Clement includes a section discussing just how very powerful and completely capable of vindicating their rights at the ballot box gay men and lesbians have become. Same-sex marriage is supported by President Obama and Vice President Biden! Less than half of Congress filed a brief agreeing with them! A magazine once wrote an article about how influential the Human Rights Campaign is! For the first time in history, an entire 1 percent of the Senate is openly gay!
After touting the immense political clout of a group that, after 226 years of American democracy, finally managed to elect a single person to the upper house of Congress, Clement then drops this line:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/23/1483131/house-republicans-to-scotus-gay-people-are-too-powerful-to-give-them-equal-rights/
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)"Gays are so powerful that if treat them as equals they will be....um....equal. And that would be bad."
What?
Drale
(7,932 posts)than the NRA should lose all of their rights, and the tea baggers to, hell lets throw in the anti-abortion groups as well. They all have way to much power and hate.
niyad
(113,302 posts)Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)Just a thought...