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LGBT Legal And Advocacy Groups Decry Obama Administration's Defense of DOMA

By ACLU

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We are very surprised and deeply disappointed in the manner in which the Obama administration has defended the so-called Defense of Marriage Act in a brief filed today in Smelt v. United States, a lawsuit brought in federal court in California by a married same-sex couple asking the federal government to treat them equally with respect to federal protections and benefits. The administration is using many of the same flawed legal arguments that the Bush administration used. These arguments rightly have been rejected by several state supreme courts as legally unsound and discriminatory.

Full post as published by ACLU Newsroom on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).

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