PA.State Attorney Wont Defend Their State DOMA and Do You Know What A DINO is??
There is a Governor of the state of Pennsylvania by the name of Tom Corbett who is not been too friendly in the trend for Civil rights for gay couples who wish to marry in PA.
For those who thinks that if it says democrat in front of the name that most be for gay rights he is one of those samples that such a thing is not so.
The state of Pennsylvania like a bunch of states dominated by Republicans or DINO’s (Democrats in name only) got such a sexual rush when a Democrat President and a Republican Congress signed a bill into law called DOMA that they went ahead and passed their own! That makes sense right? Yes it does if you follow the weird and strange ways of people in politics. They seldom do the right thing for the right reasons. In this case state polician’s wanted to score political points on the backs of people of the same sex that loved each other. It’s Federal law, but lets put one more nail wether it matters or not in the gay marriage coffin. They should have taken a pulse on the stiff because even back then numbers were climbing. Slowly but still moving. There was life and the stiff was moving.
These DINO’s forgot that in issues of national furor things can change rather drastically, particular when it has to do with civil and human rights. As people are better informed they stop buying from the guy that says that gay people are monsters thieves sexual deviates (what ever that means) and people just hated by god! You have to figure that with the information flow revolution, how can such garbage be believed by fair people no matter what god they serve or not? Tom Corbett is one of those DINO’s.
[Gov. Corbett describing himself]
Now Tom has a problem with his past stance for status quo. You see he is running for reelection and his numbers are not what he would wished for. But that is not all the problems he’s got. The state Attorney General Kathleen Kane, a real Democrat said today
that she wouldn’t defend the the state DOMA in court — raising the issue on a state level for the first time since the Supreme Court ruled against the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
Since Kane has declined to defend the law, the responsibility falls to Corbett to decide what to do. Pennsylvania General Counsel James D. Schultz said in a statement Thursday afternoon that Corbett’s office “will continue to review the lawsuit” — and took a swipe at Kane.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the first known legal challenge to Pennsylvania’s Defense of Marriage Act in Harrisburg earlier this week, naming Corbett, Kane and three other state officials as defendants. The suit argues that Pennsylvania’s law violates a fundamental right to marry and also goes against the Constitution’s equal protection clause.
“We are surprised that the Attorney General, contrary to her constitutional duty under the Commonwealth Attorneys Act, has decided not to defend a Pennsylvania statute lawfully enacted by the General Assembly, merely because of her personal beliefs,” Schultz said.
Corbett faces a rock-and-hard place decision. If he opts to defend the law — he’s expressed support for it in the past — Corbett will draw ire from a Democratic base that already despises him. If he chooses not to defend it, he risks alienating the members of his own party he needs for reelection next year.
“Corbett will defend [the law],” said Franklin & Marshall pollster Terry Madonna. “He opposes gay marriage and his conservative base would be furious with him if he does not.”
On the other hand, the suit over the state’s same-sex marriage ban comes at a time when Pennsylvania public opinion on the issue has seen a major shift. A Franklin & Marshall poll from earlier this year found 52 percent of registered voters support same-sex marriage, while 41 percent oppose it
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By defending the law, said Muhlenberg College pollster Chris Borick, Corbett would be “going counter to general public opinion in the state — but he has to worry first about his very lukewarm support within his own party.”
Corbett, first elected in the GOP wave of 2010, has seen his approval ratings stuck in the low 30s and even 20s, and trails his potential Democratic challengers in most recent polls of the race. The Democratic primary will likely be crowded, with Rep. Allyson Schwartz looking like the likely frontrunner so far.
Borick noted that the electorate in a lower-turnout midterm year like 2014, when Corbett is facing reelection, skews older and more Republican, so the types of voters who will turn up at the polls next year are more evenly split on the issue.
“When you start to look at who shows up in a midterm election like 2014, you’re looking a little bit of a different audience and the issue is more divided,” he said.
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