From Senatus:
President Obama, in a “major legal policy shift, has directed the Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act — the 1996 law that bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages — against lawsuits challenging it as unconstitutional,” the New York Times reports.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sent a letter to Congress on Wednesday saying that the Justice Department will now take the position in court that the act should be struck down as a violation of same-sex couples’ rights to equal protection under the law.
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) issued a statement today indicating that it is her “intention to introduce legislation that will once and for all repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.”
“My own belief is that when two people love each other and enter the contract of marriage, the Federal government should honor that.
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It was the wrong law then; it is the wrong law now; and it should be repealed.”
Will a DOMA repeal pass? It might get through the Senate, but it stands little chance of even coming to a vote in the House…and if it does, it will probably go down to crushing defeat (almost all the GOPers and a goodly portion of the Democrats voting against as they look over their shoulders towards 2012). This is just eyewash for the liberal gay groups – getting them completely on side for the 2012 election, and getting them long before the campaign heats up. You won’t hear a peep about repealing DOMA from Obama and the Democrats in 2012…by then, they’ll be back to trying to move to the center for the general election.
This will, of course, work as planned – liberal gay groups, in contrast to the conservative gay groups, are narrow minded, bigoted and easily led by the nose. They’ll lap this up and then happily shower Democrats with bags of money in 2012…as if they’ll have a chance of a DOMA repeal in 2013, even if Obama is re-elected (Democrats are almost certain to lose the Senate in 2012, regardless of what happens on the Presidential level…the only question is whether they’ll lose 5 or 15 seats).
Of course, long term, our liberals do hope to accomplish this – anything which weakens marriage and family also weakens the ability of the individual to defend himself against the government. The more atomized and dependent upon government we become, the more liberals like it. So, their war on family and marriage will continue – though it won’t be by legislation but in the courts and bureaucracies where they hope to conquer. What this means is that we must fight them hard in 2012 – and win so sweeping a victory that we are no longer just holding the line, but actually rolling back the liberal agenda.
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