- Alan Sears of ADF has just released a letter on the implications of the Obama Administration and Justice Department's refusal to defend existing Defense of Marriage Act (1996) legislation:
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Alliance Defense Fund
Update on federal DOMA Litigation
It’s time to fight…

We wanted to update you on the litigation involving the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA – which essentially is the law that defines marriage to include one man and one woman for federal government purposes, and allows each state to define marriage without imposing any re-definition on another), and especially the impact of Eric Holder’s unprecedented announcement yesterday that the Department of Justice will no longer defend the law (and in fact actively oppose it).
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