The fundamentalist pulpits of America will be screaming over the DOMA fight. I can hear them now, "Lesbians, gays, transvestites running to America from all over the world, promoting godless lifestyles. Protect our family structure as one man one women. That will protect us and unite against these godless hoards". They (the right)have an angle to exploit on every possible issue. What a sorry state of affairs these days.

broca's area is located on the inferior, posterior frontal gyrus in the left hemisphere. wernicke's area is located in the superior posterior temporal gyrus on the left hemisphere. both speech related centers are in the left hemisphere. neither are in the parietal gyrus/lobe.

uh...hmmm...gays, lesbians? i don't get it. the country is in the middle of a depression, the banksters are still making off with loot, there are 14,000,000 people unemployed and if I know 50 income tax cheaters , then there are really more important things the rebumblicans and demoquacks should be worrying about then then twinkies. leave them alone, stay out of my bedroom and stay out of my Va jj. get back to doing the work of the people and not the work of the theologists! God is scratching his head right now....

Maybe we could easily make the right happyif we went back t o marriage as a business strategy, melding two families to strengthen them in terms of politics, money, power. Or perhaps they'd like arranged marriages. The two (presumably one male and one female) candidates are chosen by their parents for mutual benefit (although not to the couple necessarily). In biblical times there were multiple marriages which apparently were acceptable to the ruling elite--who no doubt had a few families themselves.

In the United States, black slaves were forbidden from marrying. There was a "jump the broomstick" ritual, I think, but no governmental or formal agency was involved or cared. Of course, married or not, children or not, any slaveowner could sell off his slaves, break up the families, send them to distant places and the family members would almost never be able to get together again.

Or, here, from another website, if the rightwing really wants to return to the form of biblical marriage, many changes would have to be made. (from another website on marriage in biblical times): For one thing, the status of women was low—they were regarded as the property of their fathers or husbands and could do nothing without their consent. The main purpose of marriage was procreation and the perpetuation of a man's name. Every healthy person was expected to marry. Single men and women were despised. A man could have several wives and concubines. (Jacob married two sisters, Leah and Rachel, and Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines.) Divorce was not encouraged, but permitted if a man found some "uncleanness" in his wife. In such a case, he simply wrote her a bill of divorce and sent her out of his house. However, it was virtually impossible for a wife to divorce her husband.

Eventually, divorces were increasingly frowned upon, and there was a general trend toward monogamy. Another change concerned the man's obligatory marriage to his brother's widow. This kind of marriage was at times required and at other times prohibited. So much would depend on what chapter and verse of the bible you were reading to determine family obligation.

Unfortunately marriage is of the state. I think Thom has said it appears in 30,000 laws across the country.

I am sure that there are a lot of people who are just happy that President Obama decided to abandon his "evolving" opinion on the issue of gay marriage. People will remember his original words and realize that this is all politics and nothing more.

• The President of the United States seems to be coming out with all kinds of excitment on how he really feels about things probably knowing that it doesn't matter since the election, if not properly done, is in the bag for him.

Quote DRichards:The future for progressives doesn't look good...

The Future Will Be More Religious and Conservative Than You Think

By Eric Kaufmann

Conservatives need this stuff very much, in order to ease their depressions: The future will be conservative... the earth will be flat again, Constantinople Christian, and the Protestants kneel in front of the Pope -- Allelujah.

HOW MUCH IS ALL OF THIS GOING TO COST? Presently, married taxpayers may file their tax returns as “Married Filing Jointly” which provides, in many cases, more tax benefits than filing separate returns - and if same sex couples become entitled to file federal MFJ, our aggregate tax revenue will decrease dramatically. As such, and irrespective of angry rhetoric, our deficit will increase because an entire class of taxpayers will be paying that much less. But this addition is chump change compared to the enviable Estate Tax consequences. In short, while our opportunistic panderer in chief may momentarily profit from this issue – the taxpayer must, as usual, foot the bill. Remember folks, in 2013 the exempt amount of an estate is a measly $1 million dollars – after that, the estate tax rate is a whopping 55%. In other words, all of that “previously taxed money” is about to be taxed again – and that’s just federal – after all, many states have estate taxes as well. Now, the spousal exemption for estate tax, known as the “marital deduction” allows a surviving spouse to inherit all of the decedent’s property without any tax penalty. And any property that was held jointly between the spouses will automatically go to the surviving spouse and won’t be included in the marital deduction. Thus, same sex marriage will cost us well over one billion dollars a year, and as such, the government will not receive the money it anticipates, and sadly, has already spent.