FRC: President Obama Is Incoherent on Defense of Marriage Act
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WASHINGTON, DC UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today Family Research Council President Tony Perkins released the following statement regarding the Department of Justice's latest brief in a lawsuit to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act:
"To paraphrase John Kerry, Barack Obama is for marriage but he's also fighting against it. He believes in stable families but wants to elevate a dangerous lifestyle to marital sanctity. He believes marriage is the union of one man and one woman but not enough to defend it as law or as a moral and social good.
"Simply put, President Obama is talking moderately but acting radically. He is following the lead of radical pro-homosexual activists by calling for the repeal of DOMA--even in a brief urging dismissal of a suit against it. The Department of Justice is only grudgingly fulfilling its legal obligation to defend existing U.S. law, but it is apparently determined to do so with the weakest possible arguments.
"This is yet another example of the incoherence of President Obama's statements and actions on the issue of same-sex 'marriage'--a radical social innovation that the President claims to oppose even while his actions pave the way for it.
"The Defense of Marriage Act was adopted by wide bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. I urge President Obama to either defend this law with vigor or to come clean about his desire to equate homosexual relationships with heterosexual marriage, and I encourage my fellow Americans to let him know where they stand."
