Obama Administration May Submit Brief in Prop. 8 Case
Federal government not actually a party to California gay marriage suit
The Obama administration may intervene in the Supreme Court's consideration of California's gay marriage ban by filing a friend of the court brief outlining its position in support of gay marriage.
President Obama has repeated his belief that gay and lesbian couples "should be treated like anyone else under the law," both in his Inaugural address in January, and in a Google+ hangout last week, when he said gay and lesbian couples should receive equal treatment under immigration law.
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Obama climbs on the bandwagon after Republican lawyer Ted Olson has done all the work. I noticed that when North Carolina made gay marriage unconstitutional last year he said nothing. Where it might have helped. But it was an election year.