Reply #14: You have shown that you don't understand the civil rights issues.

[merh]

That you haven't a clue about the fight for equality that has been on going for centuries.

And what you and other critics miss about that brief is a simple truth, it DOES NOT argue against the validity of same sex marriages. The conflicts of law portion of the brief, the part that has been twisted by bigots who say it is comparing gays to pedophiles and incest, is acknowledging the validity of same sex marriages as conducted in states that have passed laws to allow it. The previous admin would never recognize as valid a same sex marriage. The previous admin used the repugnant argument (which cannot be found in the Smelt brief) that children of raised in heterosexual married households are better off than those raised in same sex households.