Another very important difference in the cases the administration has chosen to appeal versus those it hasn’t has to do with the strength of the case. The Park Service’s case was a very weak case, and was actually an appeal from the District Court level. The next level of appeal would have been to the Supreme Court, and that’s a different bag of beans. The DADT case however, is being appealed to Court of Appeals, the same level as the Park Service’s case ended.

Yes, the ADF won this, but the changed in rules allows gay people the same freedom of assembly.

Plus the rules were not a law passed by Congress.

Weak. Really, really weak.

Basically if you allow a single Federal-level judge to overturn a law without appealing, then it effectively allows an executive to take any law they don’t agree with, go shopping for a judge, and overturn acts of Congress.

For example, imagine Obama is replaced by a Republican who disagrees with the health care legislation. The case of the states could be steered into the court of a conservative judge, who then throws out the health care legislation. Then the White House refuses to appeal, effectively forming a conspiracy between a single judge and the Executive to overturn the will of Congress. It sets a terrible precedent.

In that vein, I’m VERY disappointed to see the DOJ picking and choosing which cases to appeal. That really pisses me off.

Every Hillary supporter who justified their hostility to Obama by citing his opposition to marriage equality and the fact that he was supported by homophobic Illinois state senator James Meeks was either stunningly uninformed or stunningly dishonest. Hillary opposes marriage equality too, and she was supported by the now-notorious Bishop Eddie Long of Georgia.

You are not entitled to your own facts. The causes for which we are fighting are too important to be exploited for cheap intraparty sniping.

This, along with several other recent Obama administrative decisions, has finally confirmed what I have failed to realize all along: I am finally going to vote Green Party in the next Presidential Election. I am not a “gaily-forward” party ticket voter, but Obama has hereby lost my vote. I do not care that my vote may lead to a Republican winning the election. It won’t. (I live in Arizona, anyhow.)

I will, hereafter, vote from my heart, as opposed to being swayed from pandering to the gay community — only to be forgotten the day after voting day.