Why do people say that President Obama won push equal rights law in the right direction?
American Presidents are famous for stretching the letter of the law: Nixon’s attempt to sabotage the Democratic Party, Reagan’s Iran-Contra scandal, George Bush’s extraordinary rendition. When the political climate demands, the Executive is often willing to push the edges of legal behavior in order to achieve a political end. 2009-12-22-blogkolinskitop.jpg But when it comes to gay rights, Obama doesn’t want to breathe on the boundaries of the law, let alone give them the shove they need. On Friday, the Office of Personnel Management — a Federal agency controlled by the Obama administration — refused to comply with a court order to extend family health benefits to a Federal staff attorney who has a same-sex partner. In an apologetically worded memo, the OPM stated that the Defense of Marriage Act barred the agency from recognizing same-sex partners as family members — even for the purposes of the health plan. DOMA meant that the court order must be ignored. This is one logical approa
American Presidents are famous for stretching the letter of the law: Nixon’s attempt to sabotage the Democratic Party, Reagan’s Iran-Contra scandal, George Bush’s extraordinary rendition. When the political climate demands, the Executive is often willing to push the edges of legal behavior in order to achieve a political end. 2009-12-22-blogkolinskitop.jpg But when it comes to gay rights, Obama doesn’t want to breathe on the boundaries of the law, let alone give them the shove they need. On Friday, the Office of Personnel Management — a Federal agency controlled by the Obama administration — refused to comply with a court order to extend family health benefits to a Federal staff attorney who has a same-sex partner. In an apologetically worded memo, the OPM stated that the Defense of Marriage Act barred the agency from recognizing same-sex partners as family members — even for the purposes of the health plan. DOMA meant that the court order must be ignored. This is one logical approa
But when it comes to gay rights, Obama doesn’t want to breathe on the boundaries of the law, let alone give them the shove they need. On Friday, the Office of Personnel Management — a Federal agency controlled by the Obama administration — refused to comply with a court order to extend family health benefits to a Federal staff attorney who has a same-sex partner. In an apologetically worded memo, the OPM stated that the Defense of Marriage Act barred the agency from recognizing same-sex partners as family members — even for the purposes of the health plan. DOMA meant that the court order must be ignored.
American Presidents are famous for stretching the letter of the law: Nixon’s attempt to sabotage the Democratic Party, Reagan’s Iran-Contra scandal, George Bush’s extraordinary rendition. When the political climate demands, the Executive is often willing to push the edges of legal behavior in order to achieve a political end. 2009-12-22-blogkolinskitop.jpg But when it comes to gay rights, Obama doesn’t want to breathe on the boundaries of the law, let alone give them the shove they need. On Friday, the Office of Personnel Management — a Federal agency controlled by the Obama administration — refused to comply with a court order to extend family health benefits to a Federal staff attorney who has a same-sex partner. In an apologetically worded memo, the OPM stated that the Defense of Marriage Act barred the agency from recognizing same-sex partners as family members — even for the purposes of the health plan. DOMA meant that the court order must be ignored. This is one logical approa
American Presidents are famous for stretching the letter of the law: Nixon’s attempt to sabotage the Democratic Party, Reagan’s Iran-Contra scandal, George Bush’s extraordinary rendition. When the political climate demands, the Executive is often willing to push the edges of legal behavior in order to achieve a political end. 2009-12-22-blogkolinskitop.jpg But when it comes to gay rights, Obama doesn’t want to breathe on the boundaries of the law, let alone give them the shove they need. On Friday, the Office of Personnel Management — a Federal agency controlled by the Obama administration — refused to comply with a court order to extend family health benefits to a Federal staff attorney who has a same-sex partner. In an apologetically worded memo, the OPM stated that the Defense of Marriage Act barred the agency from recognizing same-sex partners as family members — even for the purposes of the health plan. DOMA meant that the court order must be ignored. This is one logical approa
