Michael Foust reports at Baptist Press:
Byron Babione, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a legal group which opposes “gay marriage,” called Obama’s statement on DOMA “a nonsense statement.”
“DOMA actually protects the right of states to determine social policy with respect to marriage,” Babione previously told Baptist Press. “It allows states the freedom to protect marriage between a man and a woman and not to have the same-sex marriages of other states imposed upon them…. Repealing DOMA actually does the opposite of protecting states’ rights…. Repealing of DOMA also would do untold damage to the benefits that marriage brings to society. It would open the way to defining marriage and its value out of existence.”
