The U.S. House of Representatives just passed an amendment to the 2013 Defense Appropriations Bill that would bar same-sex couples from holding weddings or other commitment ceremonies on military bases and ban military chaplains from conducting any such unions.
The measure was the work of Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who claimed the Obama Administration was trying to circumvent DOMA by allowing gay couples to wed on-base.
“The Defense of Marriage Act means this: Marriage means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife. And the word ‘spouse’ only refers to a member of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife,” said King. “[It's a] pretty simple statute being contravened by the President of the United States as exercised through the Secretary of Defense.”
The issue of same-sex ceremonies on military stations came to the fore when Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was repealed. But after Slate reported on the union of Air Force Tech Sargent Erwynn Umali and his fiance, Will Behrens, at a joint military base in new Jersey, King pulled out the big guns.
I think it's so funny that politicians get to determine who can marry who and where when a lot of them have the most ****ed up marriages. John Edwards, Bill Clinton (that's my ***** though), John McCain, Mark Sanford... I mean get the **** off your high horse bitches.
I truly believe they use these tactics not because they hate gays or anything but they see it as a scape goat to cover up other **** that's happening in the world.
You'd think they'd have more important laws to be passing, you know, like ones that let them keep blowing up brown people in the Middle East, or ones that let them keep holding people in jail on minor drug possession charges.
