Defense Of Marriage Act Proves Indefensible

February 24, 2011

President Obama, who is a former constitutional scholar, and his chief legal beagle had a belated but welcome epiphany yesterday: A president is not obliged to defend an indefensible law, and the Defense of Marriage Act is indefensible. In other words, just what I wrote in June 2009, after Obama and his Justice Department offered offensive justifications, including long-ago incestuous and adolescent marriages, for the federal government’s refusal to recognize …

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Getting Closer To Consensus On Gay Rights

September 14, 2010

In one remarkable summer, three federal judges in three very different parts of the country have struck down laws depriving homosexual Americans of rights everyone else takes for granted. This is what an emerging consensus looks like. Those of us who are over 50 or 60 years old have seen it before. Civil rights for women and racial minorities did not spring directly out of a couple of key Supreme …

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The Plain, Irrational Truth About DOMA

July 9, 2010

The judge who yesterday struck down much of the federal Defense of Marriage Act is not a liberal activist or a promoter of some “homosexual agenda,” though he is no stranger to bold judicial rulings. U.S. District Judge Joseph L. Tauro of Boston is a married 79-year-old grandfather, a former U.S. Army missile officer and a one-time federal prosecutor whom President Richard Nixon appointed to the federal bench in 1972. …

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