ERLC analysis: a defense of DOMA and response to DOJ’s advocacy of DOMA’s partial overturn

By staff - Jul 29, 2011 -

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it would no longer defend the federal definition of marriage as only the union of one man and one woman—a key statute of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). In July, the DOJ went an alarming step further—from non-defense of DOMA to advocating in the case Golinski v. United States Office of Personnel Management that the law be partially overturned.

In response, the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has released an analysis refuting the DOJ’s legal argument against DOMA. To view the ERLC’s analysis and learn why DOMA is not only good policy but also legally and constitutionally sound, please click here. (PDF – 233 KB)

The ERLC’s DOMA analysis, authored by interns Evan Daniels and Philip Williamson, is titled The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as Sound Public Policy and Responding to the Department of Justice Advocacy of DOMA’s Partial Overturn.

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