Redefining marriage would put a new principle into law—that marriage is whatever emotional bond the government says it is

Obama Administration vs. the Law on Same-Sex Marriage

Amy Payne and Jennifer Marshall

President Obama has so many flip-flops in his policy positions that it’s hard to keep track. After running for President supporting traditional marriage, he “evolved” to support same-sex marriage—and now his Justice Department has officially urged the Supreme Court to overthrow the law of the land.

The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) defining marriage as one man and one woman for the purposes of federal law passed Congress with an overwhelming bipartisan majority and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996. It is the subject of a court challenge that the Supreme Court will hear on March 27. Last Friday, the Obama Justice Department filed a brief with the high court stating the Administration’s position that DOMA is unconstitutional.

Normally, it is the Justice Department’s job to enforce the nation’s laws. But as Heritage’s Hans von Spakovsky has noted, Obama’s Administration is different:

But now we have a Justice Department so politicized 

that 

it is actually arguing against federal statutes in court, 

and doing so not based upon the dictates of the law…

but based on the apparent policy preferences 

and political ideology 

 of this administration.

 So much for taking care that the laws be faithfully executed.

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