{"id":1328,"date":"2009-06-16T10:40:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T14:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2009-06-16T11:56:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T15:56:15","slug":"obama-and-the-doma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/16\/obama-and-the-doma\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and the DOMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the White House says President Obama is committed to signing a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, his Justice Department is committed to fighting any challenges to the DOMA until Congress changes the law.\u00a0 The Human Rights Campaign, a prominent gay-rights organization, <a title=\"protests the administraton's legal straddling\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124511150294217147.html\" target=\"_blank\">protests the administration&#8217;s legal straddling<\/a>.\u00a0 School of Law Professor <a title=\"Linda McClain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/mcclain_l.html\" target=\"_blank\">Linda McClain<\/a>, an authority on gender law, can discuss the ongoing legal wrangling.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Linda McClain, 617-358-4635, <a href=\"mailto:lmcclain@bu.edu\">lmcclain@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the White House says President Obama is committed to signing a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, his Justice Department is committed to fighting any challenges to the DOMA until Congress changes the law.\u00a0 The Human Rights Campaign, a prominent gay-rights organization, protests the administration&#8217;s legal straddling.\u00a0 School of Law Professor Linda McClain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1273,714,713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}