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Let me state for the record, again, that I support the civil unions of two consenting adults in the eyes of the state and I don't care what gender those adults are.
However, after thinking about this a while, I wonder if this is overstepping his Constitutional authority? I believe it is the duty of any President to enforce and defend all the laws of the US, if not explicitly then implicitly. Shouldn't this be corrected through the Legislative branch? Isn't this the Executive branch unilaterally nullifying a law that they don't like?
I think I am supporting this because I agree with him, not because it's the proper thing to do? What if it was a law that I supported and any President simply said, "We aren't going to defend this law in the courts"? I would be pissed! I need to think on this and see if there are precedents for this.
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