John Boehner has made it clear that he does not want to abandon the defense of the Defense of Marriage Act even if it means relying upon the most horrific of “harmful and unreasonable arguments”. Boehner’s pet lawyer, Paul Clement, has been relying upon a lot of discredited and biased research regarding marriage equality and using it in legal briefs in court.
Clement has, so far, argued that DOMA is Constitutional because lesbians and gays are inferior parents, being gay is a choice, and that LGBT Americans are not regularly victims of discrimination and, thus, should not be granted protected status as a class. That last one flies in the face of Supreme Court precedent.
Always budget conscious, the House Republicans decided to pay Clement millions that could go to disaster relief because President Barack Obama decided to no longer waste money defending a law that is so obviously unconstitutional.
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