{"id":3024,"date":"2008-10-20T16:17:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T20:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2008-10-20T16:17:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T20:17:28","slug":"obama-called-defense-of-marriage-act-doma-abhorrent-in-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/obama-called-defense-of-marriage-act-doma-abhorrent-in-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) &#8216;Abhorrent&#8217; in 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catholiccitizens.org\/news\/contentview.asp?c=48402\">CatholicCitizens.org<\/a> | Oct. 19, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Obama on Marriage: &#8220;As an African-American man, a child of an interracial marriage, a committed scholar, attorney and activist who works to protect the Bill of Rights, I am sensitive to the struggle for civil rights. As a state Senator, I have taken on the issue of civil rights for the LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] community as if they were my own struggle because I believe strongly that the infringement of rights for any one group eventually endangers the rights enjoyed under law by the entire population. Since 1996, I have been the sponsor or a chief co-sponsor of measures to expand civil liberties for the LGBT community including hate-crimes legislation, adoption rights and the extension of basic civil rights to protect LGBT persons from discrimination in housing, public accommodations, employment and credit.&#8221;  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Today, I am a candidate for the U.S. Senate. Unlike any of my opponents, I have a legislative track record. No one has to guess about what I will do in Washington. My record makes it very clear. I will be an unapologetic voice for civil rights in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I opposed DOMA [the Defense of Marriage Act] in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying. This is an effort to demonize people for political advantage, and should be resisted \u2026<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/catholiccitizens.org\/news\/contentview.asp?c=48402\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CatholicCitizens.org | Oct. 19, 2008 Obama on Marriage: &#8220;As an African-American man, a child of an interracial marriage, a committed scholar, attorney and activist who works to protect the Bill of Rights, I am sensitive to the struggle for civil rights. As a state Senator, I have taken on the issue of civil rights for &#8230; <a title=\"Obama Called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) &#8216;Abhorrent&#8217; in 2004\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/obama-called-defense-of-marriage-act-doma-abhorrent-in-2004\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Obama Called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) &#8216;Abhorrent&#8217; in 2004\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[95,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexual-indoctrination","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}