Comments on: Obama Administration Moves To Uphold DOMA Before Supreme Court

By: Gay Dude Gets Plum Job @ Justice Dept: Who Cares?! « The Fruit Fly

Gay Dude Gets Plum Job @ Justice Dept: Who Cares?! « The Fruit Fly — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:25:06 +0000

[...] The hire looks like yet another effort by the Obama administration to calm the anger of the gay community over a series of perceived slights., including a controversial brief filed in June in a lawsuit over the Defense of Marriage Act [...]

By: jim

jim — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:47:02 +0000

I demand Social Security survivor benefits for myself and my same sex partner. I demand the right for us to share health insurance as a couple. (We both work at places with the same insurance consortium).

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Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:19:43 +0000

[...] On the same day in which the Obama administration filed a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court defending the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act,“ California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a very different brief in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, [...]

By: Swampfox

Swampfox — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:37:58 +0000

It is now down to two gay blogs that I follow who has not commented on this event. I have noticed that Pam’s House Blend has gone ballistic. And, don’t know why GayPatriot.net is not commenting on it. The third one, is a small blog located in the midlands of South Carolina. I can only guess that he is trying to find the words to express his disappointment.

By: Jim Burroway

Jim Burroway — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:48:48 +0000

Swampfox, I’m frankly having trouble finding prominent LGBT bloggers who haven’t commented on this. This idea you have that gay bloggers who once supported Obama are now giving him a pass isn’t measuring up to what I’m seeing. Maybe you’re following some of the more lesser-known bloggers than I am.

By: Swampfox

Swampfox — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:36:56 +0000

I have noticed that a couple gay bloggers who think that Obama does walk on water have not commented on this truly unseemly defense of DOMA. I guess that they are trying to digest it all and will in due time comment on it.

By: Jim Burroway

Jim Burroway — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:58:31 +0000

Sorry toujoursdan. Our spam filter thinks that comments with four links or more is spam. I’ve retrieved your post from the spam queue.

By: toujoursdan

toujoursdan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:52:11 +0000

I tried to put 4 links to the other briefs in my post and it disappeared. Sorry.

By: toujoursdan

toujoursdan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:47:57 +0000

Jason: Reread paragraph one and section 1a. They clearly deliniate the policy distance the DOJ keeps from the President.

Secondly, the brief was written by W. Scott Simpson. He seems to be a true blue Mormon.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vagenealogy/about_me.htm

He filed briefs of 2 DOMA cases in 2004 and 2005 on behalf of the Bush Administration and the Republican governor of Florida. This latest brief seems to be a copy and paste job from the last one.

So my sense is that someone at the DOJ just handed this off to him because he’d done it before.

By: toujoursdan

toujoursdan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:44:32 +0000

Jason: reread the first paragraph and Section 1a again. It’s against their policy to even notify Obama of these cases.

Secondly if you look at the brief itself, its is W. Scott Simpson.

Simpson appears to be a true blue Mormon: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vagenealogy/about_me.htm which explains a lot about the content and language used in the brief.

He has written briefs on DOMA cases since 2004 when he worked on behalf of the Bush Administration. This latest brief seems to be mostly a copy and paste job from the previous ones.

http://www.domawatch.org/cases/11thcircuit/sullivanvbush/040827UnitedStatesMotionToDismiss.pdf

http://www.domawatch.org/cases/11thcircuit/wilsonvake/20040927_def_dismiss_memo.pdf

http://www.domawatch.org/cases/10thcircuit/Oklahoma/bishopvoklahoma/bvo_motion_to_dismiss_exh_20050106.pdf

I get the feeling that this was handed off to this guy because he’d done it in the past.