Marriage & Religious Freedom Under Attack by Obama Administration

NY’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan, who is President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), recently sent a letter to President Obama critical of his Justice Dept.’s decision not only to no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) but to actually attack its constitutionality. The U.S. Justice Dept. has the responsibility to enforce all laws, even those it dislikes, but in this case is taking an extreme liberal position in favor of same-sex marriage.

DOMA was enacted by a Republican Congress and signed into law in 1996 by President Clinton, and defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman. Based on our experience with those few states legalizing same-sex marriage, we have learned that the civil liberties of Christians and Jews will be threatened. This is a poor decision by the Obama administration, and one very harmful not only to traditional marriage, which is already in great difficulty, but also harmful to the civil rights of those believing in traditional marriage.