Christofascists at The Family Foundation React to Cessation of Defense of DOMA

Needless to say Victoria Cobb and her coven of Christo-fascists at The Family Foundation are none too happy with the decision of the Department of Justice to cease defending the unconstitutional Sec.3 of DOMA. Cobb and others like her who will not rest until they inflict a Christian Taliban rule over Virginia and the nation. Like other Christianists who want their personal religious views inflicted on all of society, Cobb whines that Obama has abandoned his duty to defend DOMA. No doubt Cobb would take a similar position in respect to a supposedly biblical supported law re instituting slavery for African Americans or depriving women the right to vote. She's all about special rights for Christianist pals and the rest of society in her view can go do something rude and crude to themselves. As a column in the Virginian Pilot (hardly what one would consider a liberal newspaper) recognizes the changes in society which one can only hope will accelerate and push Cobb and her fellow would be theocrats into the political and social wilderness. Here are some highlights:
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One way for President Barack Obama to win the future, it seems, is to have his administration stop defending a federal law that bans recognition of same-sex marriage. Opinion polls show a steady rise in Americans' embrace of gay rights, and young voters solidly back positions their grandparents opposed, including gay marriage.
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"Anybody under the age of 40 doesn't care, or actively supports it," said Steve Elmendorf, a longtime Democratic staffer and lobbyist.
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Public opinion on gay rights has shifted substantially in recent years. An October poll by the Pew Research Center found that 42 percent of adults favored same-sex marriage, while 48 percent opposed. A year earlier, it was 37 percent in favor and 54 percent opposed.
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Pluralities of white mainline Protestants and white Catholics favored same-sex marriage for the first time in the Pew surveys' history, and the issue ranked at the bottom of voters' concerns in the 2010 elections.
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So-called millennials - Americans born after 1980 - favor same-sex marriage by 53 percent to 39 percent. Gen Xers (born 1965 to 1980) favor gay marriage by a somewhat smaller margin. Slightly more than half of the baby boomers, born 1946 to 1964, oppose gay marriage, with 38 percent approving.
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"The country's moving, and it's moving fast," Elmendorf said. "No one has lost an election in the last 10 years" over gay marriage questions, he said.
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The end of the special rights heretofore given to far right Christianist beliefs in the civil laws cannot come about soon enough to please me and others who really believe in freedom of religion as opposed to merely giving it lip service like Ms. Cobb.