Rep. Barney Frank has
gone from criticizing the Defense of Marriage Act brief to
supporting it. Why the 180? According to Frank, he gave his
negative reaction to the brief before he'd actually read
it.
Rep. Barney Frank has
gone from criticizing the Defense of Marriage Act brief to
supporting it.
Why the 180? According
to Frank, he gave his negative reaction to the brief before
he'd actually read it.
Bloggers had been
critical of Frank for taking five days to respond to the
Department of Justice's motion to dismiss a legal challenge to
DOMA. Frank then told a reporter, "I think the
administration made a big mistake. The wording they used was
inappropriate."
Now Frank has amended
his reaction with a new statement, which can be
read in its entirety here
.
In the statement, Frank
says: "Now that I have read the brief, I believe that the
administration made a conscientious and largely successful
effort to avoid inappropriate rhetoric. There are some cases
where I wish they had been more explicit in disavowing their
view that certain arguments were correct, and to make it clear
that they were talking not about their own views of these
issues, but rather what was appropriate in a constitutional
case with a rational basis standard -- which is the one that
now prevails in the federal courts, although I think it should
be upgraded."
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