Gay group responds to Obama, again

From NBC's Mark Murray
On Friday, we wrote that gay-rights groups -- like the Human Rights Campaign -- were criticizing a legal brief the Obama administration filed defending the Defense of Marriage Act, which then-candidate Barack Obama promised to repeal.

Well, HRC President Joe Solmonese keeps up the criticism, this time in a letter today to Obama.

It concludes:

As an American, a civil rights advocate, and a human being, I hold this administration to a higher standard than this brief. In the course of your campaign, I became convinced—and I still want to believe—that you do, too. I have seen your administration aspire and achieve. Protecting women from employment discrimination. Insuring millions of children. Enabling stem cell research to go forward. These are powerful achievements. And they serve as evidence to me that this brief should not be good enough for you. The question is, Mr. President—do you believe that it’s good enough for us?

If we are your equals, if you recognize that our families live the same, love the same, and contribute as much as yours, then the answer must be no.

The Obama administration contends that, in court, it typically defends the statutes on the books -- even the ones it disagrees with and is trying to repeal. See Gay group responds to Obama, again msnbc.com -