The six candidates vying for Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s seat have come clean about their opinions regarding legal support of a federal lawsuit challenging the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which bans marriage equality on a federal level and does not require states to recognize same-sex marriages, even if the relationship is legally considered a marriage in another state.
Boston College Law School student Paul Sousa started the “Defend the Law” campaign last summer to urge Blumenthal to join Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s federal lawsuit challenging DOMA. Since Blumenthal has announced his bid for U.S. Senate, Sousa is moving on to the AG’s hopeful successors. The Defend the Law campaign sent queries via e-mail, phone calls, and with a March 10 article in the “Hartford Courant.”
“To be quite frank,” Sousa said, “if an attorney general candidate in a marriage equality state isn’t willing to defend state law and defend the citizens of his or her state (who, by the way, are a minority group and have a history of invidious discrimination against them), then perhaps that candidate should be seeking a different profession.”
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