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Moms and dads not necessary, Justice Dept. says in brief

By Alliance Alert

Baptist Press: "[T]he Obama Justice Department filed a legal brief Monday arguing that children do not necessarily need a mother and a father and that same-sex households are equivalent to traditional households for child-rearing . . . 'It is very disappointing that the [Justice Department] has rejected the idea that kids do best in homes with a married mother and father,' ADF attorney Brian Raum told Baptist Press. 'They've taken the precarious decision of defending DOMA while at the same time claiming that it's bad policy.... [I]t is certainly not optimal for the attorney who is defending a particular law to concede that their clients believe it's bad policy. I think that's detrimental to the case.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).