Marriage battleground shifts to Massachusetts
San Francisco Chronicle: “The Justice Department ’should continue to defend (the law) the way that it used to,’ under the Bush administration, said attorney Jim Campbell of the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative Christian organization that represents sponsors of California’s ban on same-sex marriage in a separate case. Campbell cited the department’s 2004 filing in the Orange County case, which said the Defense of Marriage Act served the government’s ‘plainly legitimate interests in encouraging the optimal social arrangements for procreation and child-rearing.’”