[/caption]In a major victory for the proponents of gay marriage, the Defense Of Marriage Act, AKA DOMA, has been deemed unconstitutional by Eric Holder, and will therefore not be enforced by the Department of Justice. This is an interesting turn of events.
On the one hand, I agree that gay marriage, like any and every other social issue, is a personal thing, and the right to marry/not to marry should not rest on the whims of a government, any government for that matter.
On the other hand, this is still the law of the land, until it gets struck down by the Supreme Court. So as a constitutionalist, I say that Obama does not have to right to decide which laws he will enforce – he is bound to enforce the laws as they exist. By not enforcing this law, he is putting himself above the law.
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