Justice dept defends DOMA

[luluisme]

The LGBT community's in something of an uproar, and understandably.
Short story: DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act) is a law that is used as a justification to deny same-sex couple benefits, and in immigration deportations when half the same-sex couple is not of US origin. People have been putting forth lawsuits arguing against it's

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[emboline]

My November joy is turning into June angst.

[baerana]

yeah, DOMA sucks giant moose balls and I was really disappointed by the brief

[luluisme]

the commentary regarding the brief has been incredibly slanted and manipulative - I mean, repeatedly saying "OBAMA said 'blah blah blah'" rather than even "Obama's justice department said 'blah blah blah'" is obviously a manipulation.

Yeah, I noticed that too. (As you can see I didn't invoke Obama in my post title.) Although it is important to note, that while there should be quite a bit of seperation between the President and the Justice Department, in reality, the President has been known to set the priorities. So, it's also fair that he take some of the heat.

And there is a BIG difference between saying "there is precedent for states to not recognize some marriages that are legal in other states, such as when some states allowed first cousins to marry and others didn't, or when there was issue regarding minimum marriage age" and saying "same sex marriage is the same thing as incest and child rape"
Agreed that this was not entirely rationally reacted too. That being said, as a group the LGBT community is understandably getting

[baerana]

i do think providing precedents that only support you is considered bad faith (as an officer of the court, you are supposed to provide supporting and non-supporting precedents) - whether the bad faith comes from bigotry, of course I couldn't say for sure, not being the people who wrote it, it does seem like it was.