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Article: Mixed US message on marriage law riles gay-rights advocates
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 18, 2009
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WASHINGTON - President Obama insisted yesterday he still wants
to scrap what he calls a discriminatory federal marriage law, even
as his administration angered gay-rights activists by defending it
in court.
The president said his administration's stance in a California
court case is not about defending traditional marriage, but is
instead about defending traditional legal practice.
Justice Department lawyers filed new papers yesterday seeking to
throw out a lawsuit brought by a gay couple challenging the 1996
Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. Gay-rights groups say that by
doing so, the administration is failing to follow through on
campaign promises made by Obama last year to work to ...