What The Obama Administration's Decision on DOMA Means
Filed by: Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
February 23, 2011 7:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/02/what_the_obama_administrations_decision_on_doma_me.phpAlex reported earlier today on the big news about the Obama Administration's announcement that it will no longer defend the constitutionality of DOMA in court, and that it believes that statutes discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation should be held to a higher level of scrutiny by the courts.
I won't reiterate Alex's post, and all the statements from the various organizations he posted there. However, there are probably a lot of you scratching your heads and wondering what this all means. After all, as recently as October 2010, the Obama Administration had indicated that it would continue to defend DOMA vigorously, and that it considered itself bound to do so by law. As recently as January 2011, it appealed a couple of DOMA cases in which the law was ruled unconstitutional, although fortunately it avoided some of the more explicitly homophobic arguments.
