"There are substantial numbers of Americans... who wish Obama would at least defend his ground, perhaps with a clean, simple argument that respects that marriage in our culture is not the equivalent of seeking a job, entering a restaurant, or signing a contract (for all the forced comparisons with civil rights). Instead, it is an institution with deeply sectarian roots that occurs for the vast majority of our families inside the walls of a church or at the behest of a minister or rabbi. Moreover, for many Americans within virtually every single faith, defining marriage in a traditional manner is neither malice nor intolerance but a command of conscience. Declaring that faith proposition dead shouldn't be the role of a President or a Supreme Court."
Democrat Artur Davis, former Alabama congressman
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