HRC blasts the President in open letter about the administration's DOMA hate brief
by: Pam Spaulding
Mon Jun 15, 2009 at 14:47:54 PM EDT
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/11467/hrc-blasts-the-president-on-the-administrations-doma-hate-brief (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/11467/hrc-blasts-the-president-on-the-administrations-doma-hate-brief)
Mark your calendars for this rarity -- I have to say that on this one, HRC's Joe Solmonese has politely delivered a strong message. After tepid, technical responses by most of our advocacy orgs to the heinous anti-gay DOMA hate brief that the Obama Department of Justice produced the other day, below is a sorely-needed tough letter to the President.
This time, your voices got through that clinical responses to a brief that dehumanizes and demonizes us and unnecessarily hands over a primer on anti-equality arguments to the right wing are unacceptable -- this brief's arguments could set back LGBT civil rights who knows for how long. The letter: