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• Whoa there! Didn't Bill Clinton sign the Defense of Marriage Act, c. 1996, which defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman? This is a federal LAW! State courts may NOT supercede federal law if federal law addresses the same issue. Guess the folks in CA don't believe in the UNITED States of America?

  ChristmasTree Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 10:29 AM

• California has always acted like it's own nation. Which is why having the California delegation run things in Congress is well...

  J Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 11:11 AM

• More judicial activism at work. It's high time that judges stick to interpreting the law, instead of bypassing the people's elected representatives in the legislative and executive branches and creating new laws by judicial decree. Separation of powers doesn't mean that judges can impose their own beliefs on everyone else. If they exceeded their authority, they should be impeached!

  Furious Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 11:35 AM

• The level of prejudice & narrow minded comments is immense. Gorw up and leave alone happy committed couples; they should have equal rights. So get over it.

  ali sue Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 12:27 PM

• To x-MAS TREE: The judges that ruled this are FEDERAL judges not state judges. Nice try though.

  Brian Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 1:04 PM

• Keep up the fight. Eventually the older bigoted, hateful, ignorant, gay haters will be gone. Gays are born Gay...created by God! And God doesn't make mistakes!

  Slowly,equality will prevail! As for those hateful comments that push more people away from Christ than Christ would like ... WHAT ONE SOWS, SO SHALL THEY REAP!

  Steven Leong Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 1:19 PM

• Mr. Leong, Don't forget that the wages of sin is death. Homosexuality is an abomination. Christ loves everyone, but says go and sin no more. Don't try to align homosexuality and God.

  Are you sure you want to quote God? Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 6:04 PM

• It's not a matter of bigotry (as seen by one side) or moral decay (as seen by the other) at all. Unless the DOMA is either amended / repealed by Congress, or the Supreme Court (which is where this issue will almost inevitably wind up eventually) declares the DOMA unconstitutional, a lower level Federal court lacks standing to order a Federal agency such as OPM to violate a Federal law, in this case the DOMA. Let's all take a deep breath and avoid the ideological name calling on both sides, OK? We have a crying need to restore civility in public debate, quaint and naive as that concept may seem to many, but flinging ad hominem arguments around with gay abandon (no pun intended) does not contribute to that end.

  Jeremiah Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 6:49 PM

• No wonder were in a mess,what's next? Legalize having two partners? For what does abnormality have anything to do with having domestic rights ??

  Vick.. Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 1:05 AM

• Jeremiah is correct: crying need. Narrow-mindedness on both sdies of the debate. Until people stop equating disagreement with bigotry and hate the discourse won't become civil. Grow up, America!

  LF Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 9:02 AM

• Steve we only have your word that gays are born, the issue with the psychiatric society was decided based on political pressure not on substance. Do we condone pedophiles because they were born that way, how about murders, bank robbers drunks and addicts. God made them all

  GovExec Reader Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 11:23 AM

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