(May 4, 2011) Dr J and Todd Wilken meet on Issues, Etc to discuss the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government’s refusal to defend it when challenged in court, and the private legal defense that is stepping into the breach.
Listen here.
WASHINGTON—The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following from its Office of General Counsel:
“Marriage has been understood for millennia and across cultures as the union of one man and one woman. Today, the President has instructed the Department of Justice to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law reiterating that definition of marriage, passed by a Republican Congress and signed by a Democratic President just fifteen years ago. The principal basis for today’s decision is that the President considers the law a form of impermissible sexual orientation discrimination. Read more…
This article is aptly titled. Obama never intended to defend marriage and has done nothing but undermine DOMA in court. That was his only objective all along. All of his prior professions that he valued the institution of marriage were nothing more than deliberate acts of deceit devised to win elections.
As another article (Obama is out of the closet about gay marriage) noted: Read more…
(July 14, 2010) Massachusetts judge Joseph Tauro has ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. In this installment of her weekly interview on Issues, Etc., Dr J and Todd Wilken discuss the ramifications of this decision. She also brings us up to speed on NOM’s Summer of Marriage Tour (Dr J is participating in the New England leg of it this year).
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