Boehner launches effort to defend gay marriage ban

[Kadie]

Boehner launches effort to defend gay marriage ban

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press – 6 mins ago

WASHINGTON – House Speaker John Boehner says he's launching a legal defense of the federal law against gay marriage. The Ohio Republican announced Friday that he was convening a bipartisan legal advisory group to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. President Barack Obama has refused to defend the law signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996.

The leaders can instruct the House's non-partisan general counsel to take legal action on behalf of the chamber.

Attorney General Eric Holder has said that the Justice Department would continue to enforce the law but no longer would defend its constitutionality.

The Supreme Court has not ruled on the matter, but last year a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled the law unconstitutional.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110304/ap_on_re_us/us_boehner_gay_marriage_2

[arcane1]

1. Is this when the jobs start being created?

I can't keep up anymore :shrug:

[emulatorloo]

6. Not in the wedding and tourism industry n/t

[emulatorloo]

2. "The Job-killing Gay Marriage Ban"

I thought boehner wanted to create jobs.

[WolfoftheWild]

3. is there anything that Boehner does that doesn't result in abject failure?

besides tanning, that is.

[Drale]

4. Can he do that

I thought only the white house could defend a law in the courts?

[Hubert Flottz]

5. How is that going to create a single fucking job?

[Angry Dragon]

7. the weeping boner is creating jobs for people to clean up after he

gets done destroying everything

[Mz Pip]

8. My comment

already has 23 :thumbsup: and 7 :thumbsdown: