Gay GOP group Log Cabin Republicans support House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court.
Boehner on Friday announced the creation of a five-member panel to consider whether to instruct he House’s nonpartisan Office of the General Counsel to defend the law after President Barack Obama announced the Department of Justice would no longer defend the law because he believed parts of it are unconstitutional. DOMA bans federal agencies from recognizing the legal marriages of gay and lesbian couples and allows states to ignore such marriages from out of state.
While six House Democrats – including its four openly gay members – on Friday released a statement in support of the president’s decision, R. Clarke Cooper, the executive director of Log Cabin Republicans, appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball to support Boehner.
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