“Gays see ‘watershed moment’: Gov’t court brief says they face ‘purposeful discrimination’”

Michael Foust at Baptist Press: “If a federal court finds these persuasive for purposes of interpreting a federal statute, then when it comes to interpreting a state constitutional amendment [defining marriage], they’ll have the exact same analysis,” Daniel Blomberg, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund — which supports the Defense of Marriage Act — told Baptist Press. “It will be identical. The government’s argument here could certainly be used to strike down not only all of DOMA but to force this definition on all of the states.”