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Showing posts with label Abraham Lincoln and the Defense of Marriage Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abraham Lincoln and the Defense of Marriage Act. Show all posts

Abraham Lincoln, the Supreme Court, and the Defense of Marriage Act

by   within Constitutional LawMarriage  July 1st, 2013

Just as Lincoln rejected the Supreme Court’s reasoning in the Dred Scott decision, so too conservative leaders need to reject the Court’s faulty reasoning about DOMA. Anti-democratic judicial activism has become habitual only because our elected leaders have declined to respond to it with Lincoln’s clarity and firmness.

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