A Christian pastor and staunch opponent of same-sex "marriage" says President Obama threw a bone to homosexual activists yesterday, but they're acting like "playground bullies" because he's not moving quickly enough to enact their top priorities.
President Obama signed a White House memorandum yesterday to provide benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees. Homosexual activists are unimpressed with the move because the benefits do not include access for same-sex partners to health and retirement plans. The federal Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, signed by President Clinton in 1996, prohibits the government from extending health and retirement benefits to the partners of homosexual employees. Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, believes President Obama issued the directive in order to placate homosexual activists who are upset that the Obama Justice Department defended DOMA in a legal brief earlier this month -- a move that was at odds with Obama's campaign pledge to repeal DOMA. "I think what he's doing is throwing them a bone. It's a compromise position," he contends. "It's something I don't like, but I believe that if the president were to go with repealing DOMA in his first term as president, it would rile up so many conservative Christian folk who have been giving him the benefit of the doubt, that it could be threatening to his presidency, given all the other problems he has." Jackson says Obama's directive was also in response to a letter he received from Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese, in which he called on the president to repeal DOMA and the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Homosexual activists are also irritated that President Obama did not issue an executive order, but rather an administrative memo that expires when he leaves office.
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