President Obama Does The Christian Thing In Dropping Legal Support For Defense of Marriage Act

President Obama today directed the U.S. Department of Justice to stop defending the indefensible: the so called "Defense of Marriage Act" which bars federal recognition of same sex marriages.  This was an act of moral courage on the part of the president - one what will cause some interesting legal debates - and that will further the cause of equality for all Americans.  As I've preached, discrimination against gays and lesbians is sinful and, as The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere.  The prohibition of gay marriage is the twin evil of the legal prohibition that not long ago existed that barred interracial marriages.  The General Synod of the United Church of Christ made history by becoming the first mainline Christian denomination to endorse full marriage equality in 2005.  The U.S. Department of Justice "will now take the position in court that the act should be struck down as a violation of same-sex couples’ rights to equal protection under the law," according to The New York Times.  This action on the part of the president moves our nation closer to being the Beloved Community.