More On Defending The Indefensible

After having a night to think about the DoJ's defense of DOMA, (the Defense Of Marriage Act), I've come back to the same conclusions I had last night:

1. We're a nation of laws, and the DoJ was defending a federal law on the books. Fine.
   
2. But, the defense itself of that law could have stopped at "we leave this issue to the states at this time."
3. That defense instead became a sickening attack on gays that was totally uncalled for, specious in its legal structure, borrowed heavily from Bush-era nonsense, and at the very minimum is a massive insult to the LGBT community that voted for Obama, a candidate that campaigned to end this very kind of attack.

I'd be pissed too if I were a member of the LGBT community, and I am pissed off as a bi-racial man who has seen his share of discrimination, bigotry, and hatred.

More on this from Bob Cesca, Pam Spaulding, Joe Sudbay and Andrew Sullivan.