Boehner: Republicans to embrace gay marriage
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Date: February 06, 2015 10:17AM
Speaker John A. Boehner said on Thursday that he expected House Republicans to accept the decision on same-sex marriage that the Supreme Court is scheduled to issue later this year.
“I don’t expect that we’re going to weigh in on this,” Mr. Boehner said. “The court will make its decision, and that’s why they’re there, to be the highest court in the land.”
The statement comes as a bit of a surprise, given the House Republicans’ expensive defense of the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013.
After the Obama administration said it would no longer defend the act, House Republicans, through the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, took up the legal defense, quickly burning through cash.
After the Supreme Court deemed parts of the act unconstitutional in 2013, some House Republicans sought to draft an amendment to go around the Supreme Court’s ruling.