Obama gets out of way of gay marriage

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/23/obama-administration-ends-its-defense-doma/

Obama shifts stance on gay marriage

 

One way for President Barack Obama to win the future, it seems, is to have his administration stop defending a federal law that bans recognition of same-sex marriage.

 

The administration said Wednesday it no longer would defend the constitutionality of the 1996 federal law that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman. Attorney General Eric Holder cited recent shifts in legal thought, not public opinion, in explaining the decision.

 

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