Jordan Lorence: Federal Defense of Marriage Act does not violate states’ rights

ADF Attorney Jordan Lorence writing at TownHall: “The federal court in Massachusetts got its history and constitutional law wrong with its ruling that the federal Defense of Marriage Act violates ‘states’ rights’ and federalism in defining marriage . . . This extreme decision ignores extensive American history showing federal oversight of the states’ definition of marriage. But a double standard on ‘federalism’ lurks here. If states have authority under the 10th Amendment to define marriage, why are federal courts, like the one in San Francisco, not immediately upholding state constitutional definitions of marriage, such as the one currently under attack in California? Is it because California voters chose to define marriage the ‘wrong’ way as one man and one woman?”