bapifar01: Trent Franks' 'Defending Marriage' hearing, building his case for impeachment?

Saturday 16 April 2011

Trent Franks' 'Defending Marriage' hearing, building his case for impeachment?

This is certainly a critical use of congressional time and taxpayer dollars:

The U.S. House Subcommittee on the Constitution is scheduled to hold a hearing Friday titled "Defending Marriage," called by subcommittee chairman Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), who has recently called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama because of his decision to order his administration to no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)....
People For the American Way Senior Fellow Peter Montgomery predicts Franks? hearing will be a parade of "extremists."

Montgomery told TAI during a phone interview that Rep. Franks is "at the far-right fringe of the far right." Montgomery also assumed the only purpose of the Franks Defending Marriage hearing would be "To promote that far-right agenda and provide them propaganda against the administration from here until 2012."

Franks is the founder of an official Focus on the Family affiliate called the Center for Arizona Policy (CAP). Formerly known as the Arizona Family Research Institute, the CAP was instrumental in the passage of Arizona?s Prop 102 adding an amendment to Arizona?s constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

Montgomery told TAI he experienced Franks? views first hand at the Take Back America conference in St. Louis in 2009. In a speech at the event, Franks called President Obama, "An enemy of humanity." During the conference, Franks also staked claim on his belief in the "birther" conspiracy.

How depressing is it that the Subcommittee on the Constitution is chaired by "the far-right fringe of the far right"? Maybe Franks is going to try to build his case for impeachment with this hearing. Because there really is nothing more critical to the country than the president defending bigotry with the full force of the Justice Department. "Humanity" (i.e. white, male, Christian racists and homophobes) demands nothing less than keeping people who love each other apart.