Adam Liptak, the Supreme Court reporter at the NYT, makes a surprisingly good case that Obama’s decision is hard to justify, including this quote from former solicitor general in the Reagan administration and Harvard Law professor Charles Fried: “This is an unbecoming, not to mention totally unconvincing, use of excessive ingenuity in squirming out of […]

The Hill reports: Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.), the sixth-ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said the Obama administration’s decision to no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act is a “dereliction of duty,” and indicated that congressional oversight may be coming. “It is beyond disappointment,” Lungren said on the House floor Monday. “I believe […]

By refusing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), by calling it “legally indefensible,” by inventing a new constitutional doctrine (i.e. that sexual orientation is a protected class) never accepted by the Supreme Court, by rejecting controlling Supreme Court precedent in Baker v. Nelson on marriage, by nakedly politicizing the Justice Department, by nationalizing […]

In the Christian Post: [Attorney General Eric] Holder has embraced the position of Federal Judge Vaughn Walker in California that opposing so-called gay marriage can be “harmful to gays and lesbians.” But that’s like claiming that opposition to polygamy is harmful to polygamists or that laws defining marriage as the union of two people harm those […]

The Pittsburgh Tribune is pro-gay marriage. But even they cannot tolerate Obama’s dereliction of duty: “…the Obama administration’s decision to no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act is, as a matter of law, defenseless.” (source)

h/t: www.biggovernment.com