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In reply to the discussion: I'm sick of the liberal bashing going on here. [View all]Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)A legal brief under his justice department did argue that if Congress can pass laws in respect to incest and bestiality then it has the authority to pass laws on consensual adult relations. At the same time the President publicly supported the repeal of the DOMA. He was operating under the position that the Justice Department had a constitutional obligation to defend laws that had not been repealed or overturned in the courts. Eventually he did take the position that the Justice Department should not enforce DOMA and actively supported overturning it in the Supreme Court.
I have been very public in my criticism of the President on DU - but to imply that he personally compared relationships of LGBT people to bestiality and incest is simply not fair or honest.
I am unaware of any evidence that liberals or progressives in any significant number sat out the 2010 - election - A lot of so-called centrist did and there is certainly evidence to support that.