Top priority, says the American Independent’s Andy Birkey:
Colorado Republican Reps. Doug Lamborn and Mike Coffman joined Rep. Michele Bachmann and 83 other members of the House as signers of a letter to the U.S. Senate urging that body to pass an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would prohibit gay members of America’s Armed Forces from using military facilities for marriage ceremonies.
The Department of Defense, in the wake of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, has indicated that it will allow chaplains and same-sex couples to use facilities on a “sexual orientation-neutral basis,” something Republican members of the U.S. House oppose…
The House members complain that guidance by the Department of Defense General Counsel would make resources available to all members of the military. The general counsel guidance said that the “use of DoD real property and facilities for private functions, including religious and other ceremonies, should be made on a sexual orientation neutral basis.”
“This clear and deliberate violation of established U.S. law sets a dangerous precedent,” the letter states. “[The Defense of Marriage Act] makes it clear that for purposes of the federal government, marriage is defined as between one man and one woman…”
Par for the course for Rep. Doug Lamborn, but once again it’s noteworthy that Rep. Mike Coffman is taking point on a divisive social issue without knowing what his congressional district is going to look like next year. The present CD-6 who elected Tom Tancredo repeatedly won’t mind, but if that isn’t who he gets as constituents…well, he might be digging a bit of a hole.
Correction, he might be digging an existing hole even deeper.
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appeal to the lowest common denominator of the bigots
Please, please, please.
Please gerrymander Coffman so Democrats might have a chance to defeat him.
Do you even realize how pathetic that sounds?
You say:
However, you err–first–in mis-applying the term gerrymander. You may disagree with the idea of competitve districts, just as you seem OK with obvious voter suppression tactics by partisan umpries, but it is not a gerrymander.
Finally, the idea that you find giving the non-incumbent party a ‘chance’ of representing the seat is, indeed, pathetic. So, to answer your question, Yes.
I think that nails it. You want to remake CD-6 from what it is today to one that a Democrat can take from Coffman. Why is this so hard for you to admit?
You want to draw it in a way that makes things easy for the incumbent. Why are you in favor of gerrymandering the district? Are you afraid the congressman can’t compete without your obvious gerrymandering?
Why does that mean it has to be redrawn to include populations that were never a part of CD-6 before? Your reasoning doesn’t hold, but I realize it’s not really reasoning at all.
Period.
Twitty schooled you on the definition of “gerrymander”. Learn the English language before using it, GOoP.
Idiot.
… as pathetic as a bunch of Congressmen pandering to the bigots and denying gay servicemembers the same opportunities as their comrades.
I wonder if Coffman is willing to voice his opinions face to face with some of his fellow Marines on their “lifestyle choices”
It would be nice if Joe Rice would opt to square off against Mike in the restructured 6th as that would make for an interesting election.
But you’re not entitled to redraw his district to unfairly target him for removal.
… but providing for equal competition. While gerrymandering has a rich history in the US, maybe it’s time that we as a country put on our big-boy pants and redraw the districts so that there are no “safe” districts. Make leeches like DeGette, Lamborn, and Coffman actually work for their constituents interests because they would be constantly challenged in the elections.
However, you still haven’t voiced your opinion on Coffman’s position on prohibiting gay servicemembers from using DOD facilities for marriage ceremonies. How about focusing on that issue rather than the red herring of redistricting?
What this is really about is taking a DoD policy, the repeal of DADT, and trumping state law and DOMA with it. It’s precisely the slippery slope that Coffman warned us about.
Not the slippery slope! Its that damn ‘agenda’ again. You know, the one they have. First its the right to serve their country and now this. Where will it end?
only certain aspects of state law as the federal government sees fit to allow. But, DOMA does not prohibit marriage ceremonies between same sex couples, it just provides for the legal standing of that ceremony to be nil.
As for Coffman’s slippery slope argument, he’s right that DADT’s repeal is leading to further arguments against DOMA, but the discussion must start somewhere and it’s better to get it over with now rather than drag it out over the next twenty years.
Because your policies might be repudiated by the people and you might lose?
I suppose in your world, it’s better not to have to be accountable.
for the sanctity of marriage, perhaps they should introduce an amendment to forbid divorces from active members of the armed services.
Nahhh. Just continue your assault on the gays….