Justice Dept. to Continue Policy Against Same-Sex Marriage

[Zenlitened]

Source: New York Times

After two instances in which deportations were suspended in immigration cases involving same-sex couples, the Justice Department has cautioned that it will continue to enforce a law that bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages.

A Justice Department official said Saturday that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. had made no change in the administration’s approach to the law, the Defense of Marriage Act, suggesting that deportations could continue in other immigration cases involving married gay couples.

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On Thursday, Mr. Holder postponed the deportation of an Irish immigrant involved in a same-sex union, sending the case back to the immigration appeals court. The Irish man, Paul Wilson Dorman, was joined in a civil union in 2009 with an American citizen in New Jersey.

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Tracy Schmaler, a spokeswoman for Mr. Holder, said he had interceded in Mr. Dorman’s case only because he wanted the immigration appeals court to decide issues he felt had been overlooked. “As we have made clear, we will continue to enforce DOMA,” Ms. Schmaler said.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/us/09marriage.html?_r=1&hpw

[msongs]

1. gay marriage bad, spending trillions on killing people good nt

[RKP5637]

4. Big $$$ in war and MIC to the profiteers. If gay marriage could provide same

$$$ to the profiteers, they they would love gay marriage too. It all gets soooo ridiculous. I often find the US an embarrassment, anymore.

[lib2DaBone]

2. Mr. Holder... busts 71-year-old cancer patients for medical marijuana...

They can bust senior citizens with cancer... but the can't stop big oil and Wall Street from oil speculation?

I can't even think of a good rhetorical statement.. other than.. "Mr. Holder.. you sir.. are an asshole."

[jtuck004]

5. It must be so satisfying to beat up on the most vulnerable, right after

one gets their nose out of the ass of some banker.

Dirty stinkin' coward.

[RKP5637]

3. Gov. should really be out of the marriage business. Recognize civil marriage for

starters, ALL the same rights, 100%, and let people get married in a church if they want that. All of this nonsense is ridiculous.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Got to defend that Sacrament! Holder is a worhtless, gutless,

bigoted piece of crap. He lacks the courage as a man to do the right thing. He refuses to prosecute the Banksters, the Bushsters, and all he does is bully gay people and shake down sick people for their medicine while he and the President read to each other from the Bible.

[Historic NY]

7. Again its legal chess.