Gay rights groups celebrated President Obama's decision on Wednesday to no longer defend the constitutionality of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages.It was a major turnaround for Obama, who for two years has tried to have it both ways, declaring his personal opposition to the law while insisting that, as president, he had no choice but to defend and uphold it.
Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, called the decision "a tremendous step toward recognizing our common humanity and ending an egregious injustice against thousands of loving, committed couples who simply want the protections, rights and responsibilities afforded other married couples."(keep reading)
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Reproduction is obviously necessary but it's rather depressing to think that there are so many people out there who consider themselves to be breeding stock and nothing else. If "life itself is reproduction - if it is anything at all", then we need to totally scrap any and all notions of human exceptionalism.
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