GOP Rep. Lamar Smith Says Founding Fathers Didn’t Want Gay Marriage
From TPM:
In yet another instance of House Republicans focusing on social rather than fiscal issues, a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on Friday held a hearing examining the Obama administration’s decision not the defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court because they found a provision of the law unconstitutional.
Several Republicans including Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, bashed the Justice Department’s decision not to defend the law. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said last month that Congress would hire counsel to defend DOMA itself following a party line vote of the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Council.
“No one can seriously believe that the constitution’s authors intended to create a right to same-sex marriage,” Smith said.
*sigh*
Dear Texas GOP —
Please stop making the rest of us look like ignorant, bigoted hicks. Kthxbai.
No love,
Me
