
<p><br /> <br /><img src="http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/Mugs/ChrisGacek.jpg" border="0" alt="Chris Gacek (FRC)" title="Chris Gacek (FRC)" hspace="3" vspace="3" width="74" height="127" align="right" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;" />Chris Gacek of the <a href="http://www.frc.org/" target="_blank" title="Family Research Council" style="color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;">Family Research Council</a> (FRC) comments on the timing of the two items, pointing out "they were date-stamped, so [the press release] was attributed to Holder...at 11:10 in the morning -- and then the letter at 11:13 in the morning."<br /> <br />Two-and-a-half hours later, attorneys in New York and California -- representing homosexual activists -- filed a motion with the California-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, requesting the court lift a stay and grant permission for homosexual "marriages" before the court issues a decision on California's Proposition 8 case.<br /> <br />Gacek offers this observation: "...One of the things that they did...in their motion -- twice and in different pages -- [was] they cited and quoted this letter that Holder had sent out to the members of Congress."<br /> <br />According to the FRC spokesman, it is unclear is how the attorneys could get a lengthy motion prepared in two and a half hours, with two quotes from the letter, unless there was some sort of collusion between Washington and the two attorneys about what was about to take place.<br /> <br />Gacek says FRC is not accusing Holder of any criminal actions, but the situation begs investigation just for the sake of ethics concerns.</p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;" align="left"><a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=1305320" title="In a OneNewsNow weekend poll" style="color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;">In a OneNewsNow weekend poll</a>, almost 85 percent of respondents felt "without a doubt" that someone in the administration conspired with Prop. 8 opponents in the lead up to the announcement that the Department of Justice would no longer defend the constitutionality of DOMA. Another 14 percent felt that "possibly" could have happened.</p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;" align="left"><br /><strong>Retreat a surprise<br /></strong>Meanwhile, a conservative commentator at <a href="http://www.heritage.org/" target="_blank" title="The Heritage Foundation" style="color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;">The Heritage Foundation</a> says the Obama administration's decision to abandon its support of DOMA surprised many congressional leaders.<br /> <br />Chuck Donovan, senior fellow at Heritage, attended the recent National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, where he spoke with OneNewsNow. (<a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedFiles/Media/Audio/2011/03/07/JonesDOMA.mp3" target="_blank" title="JonesDOMA" style="color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;">Listen to audio report</a>)<br /> <br /><img src="http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/Mugs/ChuckDonovan.jpg" border="0" alt="Charlie (Chuck) Donovan (Heritage)" title="Charlie (Chuck) Donovan (Heritage)" hspace="3" vspace="3" width="80" height="127" align="left" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;" />"Marriage is crucial for our kids. We have a 41-percent out-of-wedlock birth rate in the United States. [Those are] record levels, twice the level that alarmed sociologists a generation ago when it touched just the African-American family," he shared. "And it's such an incredible contributor to social costs and to the harm of kids who are raised not reaching their full potential -- because they typically don't have a father in the home."<br /> <br />Donovan contends the Justice Department has slowly undermined DOMA since President Obama took office.<br /> <br />"They've actually been doing a slow-motion self-destruct on this litigation from the beginning [by] not citing the key pro-marriage cases and also abandoning the best arguments -- including the one about children being in need of a mother and father. That wasn't being argued," he remarks.<br /> <br />"Once Americans hear that, they know this case was being fumbled before it was completely dropped."<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1306054" title="On Friday" style="color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;">On Friday</a>, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced he is planning to convene a meeting of a five-member legal advisory group in the House for the purpose of initiating action to defend DOMA.<br /> <br />"The constitutionality of this law should be determined by the courts -- not by the president unilaterally," stated Boehner, "and this action by the House will ensure the matter is addressed in a manner consistent with our Constitution."<br /> <br />Some say in the absence of the Justice Department, conservative law firms will most likely intervene of behalf of traditional marriage.</p>
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