Obama admin. continues defense of DOMA

NOTE FROM JOHN: At this point, the Obama administration is cutting our community's legs off. This case is considered one of the best cases ever for our community, in terms of its chances of success. This is how we win our civil rights. It's how President Obama's people won their civil rights. It is ridiculous that President Obama is fighting us in court on a major civil rights challenge. This is really quite abominable. Would the Obama administration have opposed Loving v. Virginia? You know, to show how much better they are than the Bush administration. Yes, as Joe notes below, this time they dropped the incest language. That's nice. You're still trying to kill our chances to get our civil rights. At some point, President Obama needs to decide who he wants to be, and stick with it. Because this is utter bullshit.
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Another DOMA brief filed by the Obama administration's Department of Justice. It's another Department of Justice brief defending DOMA's constitutionality (without the hateful rhetoric this time, so I guess we should all be happy.) The case in question, Gill, et. al., v. OPM, brought by GLAD, is viewed by many of the legal types as to be one of the best challenges to DOMA.

At some point, it would be good if the Obama administration actually took some action to repeal DOMA instead of just talking about it and writing it in court filings.