Gay Marriage Seems to Wane as Conservative Issue

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/us/politics/25marriage.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=gay%20marriage%20seems%20to%20wane&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:38 AM
Subject: re: Gay Marriage Seems to Wane as Conservative Issue
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   President Obama has taken a principled stand for an oppressed minority and for the Constitution in walking away from DOMA and the sky didn't fall. We should all take heart. Now it is time that he should take a principled stand for us all; whether Congress re-authorizes them or not, he should renounce National Security Letters today.  Professor Obama can entertain no doubt that NSLs are unconstitutional. While even a single NSL is respected, Americans enjoy our Constitutional guarantees only by the grace of our Executive and not by right. We can have either a guarantee of Due Process of Law or we can have NSLs. We cannot have both.

Barry Levine