House Republicans Triple Budget To Defend Gay Marriage Ban

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=9696&MediaType=1&Category=25

House Republican leaders have agreed to triple the budget for defending in court The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the 1996 law that forbids federal agencies from recognizing the legal marriages of gay and lesbian couples, gay weekly the Washington Blade reported.

The contract modification, which took effect on October 1, authorizes up to $1.5 million to defend the law.

In March, House Speaker John Boehner appointed and led a committee that instructed House counsel to defend the law in court after the Obama administration announced it would no longer do so. The president has said he believes the law that bans federal recognition of the marriages of gay and lesbian couples is unconstitutional.

The House has retained the legal services of Bancroft LLC attorney Paul Clement.

A spokesman for Boehner asserted that the cost for the litigation would be borne by the Department of Justice, “which is shirking its responsibility to defend the law.”

[OHdem10]

1. Increase Funding for DOMA and CUT HOME HEATING ASSISTANCE

FOR THE POOR.

[William769]

2. My tax dollars hard at work.

:grr:

Recommended.

[stevenleser]

3. But the GOP had become better with regard to LGBT*.* rights. Log Cabins and GOProud said so.

:sarcasm:

[Old and In the Way]

4. Republicans want smaller government? What a joke.

What they want is an activist government that puts itself into the private lives of our citizens. The fact that they are pursuing a minority cultural agenda to enforce their idea of morality for the majority of Americans ought to be obvious to everyone.