Senate may try to repeal Defense of Marriage Act

[sofa king]

15. The weed thing could break the same way, but....

That is also an issue that is changing quickly, quite possibly with an increasing rate of change.

However, I'm not being as hard on the President as others here have been on this issue. The President seems to feel that non-enforcement of the law is not an option. He may be right.

Indifference to and non-enforcement of the law was a hallmark of the Bush Administration, from the IRS to the EPA and everywhere else that Karl Rove couldn't make a buck. During the Bush years I looked in to whether or not non-enforcement is even legal, and my conclusion was that in many cases, it might not be.

This President may have reached a similar conclusion.

The difference between weed and gay marriage is this: Republicans aren't lining up to marry people of the same sex, but a shitload of them are high right now. One of the things that makes conservatives different from liberals is comfort within hypocrisy. Republican pot-smokers don't care if weed is legal or not; they have already justified what they do and as always feel the law doesn't apply to them.

Certainly every pot smoker knows a Republican who was busted and got completely indignant about it. They'll be the same way if they see their habit on the ballot. It doesn't have to be legal as long as someone else goes to jail for it, and since white people are incarcerated far, far less for petty drug offenses than non-whites, everything is a-OK for them right now.