Social Justice
Reverend Leslie Takahashi-Morris wrote a letter to President Obama, expressing her disappointment that his Administration has chosen to DEFEND the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA):
Dear President Obama and Team,
I am yet another of your supporters who is stunned at what was uttered by your Justice Department yesterday. To see DOMA defended despite campaign promises to oppose it was a deep sadness. To hear the lines of argument used, arguments that will reinforce stereotypes and fuel hatred against good people living decent lives was shocking. Nothing--not the need for economic recovery or the need to pass the health care which we so desperately need--can justify the despair that this generated. I personally live with all the privileges a heterosexist system gives--and yet my life has been indelibly diminished by being a multiracial child whose father was interned at the Poston Relocation Center in Arizona as part of the relocation of Japanese-Americans in WWII. That too was justified as law that had to be enforced because of larger concerns. As a religious person, I know that a good shelter cannot be built on a corrupt foundation and I believe you know it too. As King said (quoting one of my religious ancestors), "The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards justice." Your Justice Department and your administration through complicity have just stepped out of its course and its trajectory. I implore you to reconsider this tragic misuse of the power of your office.
Sincerely, Rev. Leslie Takahashi Morris
Chair: Nancy J.
