{"id":16411,"date":"2012-02-22T00:25:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T03:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=16411"},"modified":"2013-10-27T23:08:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T02:08:43","slug":"justice-dept-will-not-fight-lawsuit-for-same-sex-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/22\/justice-dept-will-not-fight-lawsuit-for-same-sex-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Dept will Not Fight Lawsuit for Same-Sex Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Eric Holder has informed Congress that the Obama administration will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2012\/02\/military-obama-will-not-fight-same-sex-couples-lawsuit-022012w\/\">not defend lawsuits against the US military<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/02\/homosexual-army-veteran-sues-for-spousal-benefits\/\">seek the benefits of marriage<\/a> for same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attorney General Eric Holder [wrote that] the 1996 federal law that defines \u201cspouse\u201d as \u201cperson of the opposite sex\u201d is a violation of the Fifth Amendment right to equal protection under the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is consistent with the administration&#8217;s previous decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which is now being defended by lawyers from Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Eric Holder has informed Congress that the Obama administration will not defend lawsuits against the US military that seek the benefits of marriage for same-sex couples. Attorney General Eric Holder [wrote that] the 1996 federal law that defines \u201cspouse\u201d as \u201cperson of the opposite sex\u201d is a violation of the Fifth Amendment right to equal protection under the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[82,219,1744,2950,442,2,43,171],"class_list":["post-16411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-constitution","tag-dadt","tag-doma","tag-eric-holder","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-obama","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}