I have to applaud Chief Justice Elena Kagan for cutting through some of the legalistic morass yesterday during arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). While Pro-DOMA lawyers wriggled around the real issues involved, Elena Kagan had the courage to wonder aloud whether the act's passage in 1996 might have been
"infected by dislike, by fear, by animus” toward gays. In other words, she dared to wonder if Congress had passed homophobic bigotry into law with DOMA. Brava!
I have to applaud Chief Justice Elena Kagan for cutting through some of the legalistic morass yesterday during arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). While Pro-DOMA lawyers wriggled around the real issues involved, Elena Kagan had the courage to wonder aloud whether the act's passage in 1996 might have been "infected by dislike, by fear, by animus” toward gays. In other words, she dared to wonder if Congress had passed homophobic bigotry into law with DOMA. Brava!
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