The Minister of Justice U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday, February 23 that President Barack Obama asked his administration to stop defending the law against gay marriage during litigation on this issue. Obama believes that the federal law known as "defense of marriage", which stipulates that marriage must be the union of one man and one woman is "unconstitutional," Mr.
Holder wrote in a statement. Mr. Obama concluded, "after careful consideration of many elements, including a detailed documentation of discrimination," the issue of gay marriage should be decided "on the basis of more sophisticated". The President is specifically Section 3 of Act passed in 1996, which defines marriage as "only a legal union between one man and one woman" and requires that the spouses are of "opposite sex".
Barack Obama's decision comes within the framework of two cases currently presented to American justice. So far the government could intervene in court to oppose same-sex couples by invoking this law. This decision sends a strong signal to the militant movement for the legalization of homosexual unions in the United States, currently licensed in six states: Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and the capital Washington.
The U.S. president had acknowledged in late December that his position on gay marriage was evolving "constantly" but he was not ready "at this stage" to allow it. His spokesman, Jay Carney, said Wednesday that Obama had not changed their position since. 
Holder wrote in a statement. Mr. Obama concluded, "after careful consideration of many elements, including a detailed documentation of discrimination," the issue of gay marriage should be decided "on the basis of more sophisticated". The President is specifically Section 3 of Act passed in 1996, which defines marriage as "only a legal union between one man and one woman" and requires that the spouses are of "opposite sex".
Barack Obama's decision comes within the framework of two cases currently presented to American justice. So far the government could intervene in court to oppose same-sex couples by invoking this law. This decision sends a strong signal to the militant movement for the legalization of homosexual unions in the United States, currently licensed in six states: Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and the capital Washington.
The U.S. president had acknowledged in late December that his position on gay marriage was evolving "constantly" but he was not ready "at this stage" to allow it. His spokesman, Jay Carney, said Wednesday that Obama had not changed their position since.
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