Obama’s duty to defend law

Invoking Justice Harlan’s stirring homage to equal protection (editorial, Feb. 26) is an obvious attempt to frame gay rights in incendiary racial terms – a gross misrepresentation designed to emotionalize the argument and disguise the S-R’s blatant propagandizing of the gay agenda.

Believing that the homosexual lifestyle should not be codified into law or create a protected class by behavior, not race, does not make one “rigid” or “emotional,” nor bigoted and prejudicial. A person’s sexuality is not a racial class; refusing to support the validity of a lifestyle choice does not make one “color-blind” or “old-fashioned.” The majority of Americans believe similarly, or the Defense of Marriage Act would not be law of the land and numerous states would not have passed their own “defense of marriage” legislation.

DOMA is federal law. As such, President Obama’s Justice Department is constitutionally obligated to defend that law. He is not a king that can decide if and when to defend our nation’s laws, regardless of his personal belief.

The S-R should be ashamed for ignoring this grievous breach of duty by the president and for propagandizing the gay agenda in racial rhetoric. Journalistic standards, and this subscriber, demand better.

Alice Galeotti

Spokane