Several news outlets reported yesterday about a brief filed the Department of Justice that defended the Defense of Marriage Act while at the same time called for its repeal. Part of the brief pointed out that the government was not……

And yet, here is that homophobic DOJ — ordered by the ‘backstabber’ Obama — stating as both fact and governmnt policy the position Chris quotes above.

More importantly, he made this statement when, had he remained silent, had he merely refused to address the intervenor’s brief, or had he merely stated that ‘we do not support the argumentregardng biological parenting in their brief’ no one would have been offended. He didn’t have to take this position, he didn’t have to state it this strongly.

And yet he did. And, may I remind you, at a time when his signature issue — health reform — is embattled, his voluntary end-of-life counseling is being portrayed as ‘mandatory panels that want to kill Grandma’ and, as Steve Benen reports today, pre-natal home nursing visits (included at the bill at the behest of spcial conservatives) are being portrayed by the same social conservatives as “We are setting up a situation where Obama will be invading parent’s [sic] homes and taking away their children.”

If ever there were a time when he could be excused for not taking on a proposition that would be controversial without givinbg the Republicans a need to lie about it, it was now. And yet we have the strongest position on this topic possible.

And still there are those who condemn him.

*sigh*