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Justice Department to stop defending DOMA, [homosexual] groups respond

By ADF Alliance Alert

Lisa Keen writes at theWindy City Times: It is possible?just as happened in California?that some other entity might attempt to mount its own defense of DOMA in the pending cases. Last October, U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, filed a motion in the two First Circuit cases, seeking to be named intervenor-defendant. Smith, aided by the right-wing Alliance Defense Fund, said at the time that the Justice Department was providing "no defense at all" for DOMA. He withdrew his motion a few weeks later, without comment. [this report contains a lengthy list of responses from homosexual groups]

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 24, 2011 (boomark / email).