The laser-like focus on job creation by House Republicans continues:
... a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on Friday held a hearing examining the Obama administration's decision not the defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court because they found a provision of the law unconstitutional.
Several Republicans including Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, bashed the Justice Department's decision not to defend the law. [...]
"No one can seriously believe that the constitution's authors intended to create a right to same-sex marriage," Smith said.
Actually, the constitution doesn't mention marriage. So obviously no one can seriously believe that its authors intended to create a right to opposite-sex marriage either. Or, for that matter, that its authors intended to have the government be in the business of regulating marriage at all.
But it is, so how about we rely on that "equal protection of the law" laid out in the Fourteenth Amendment rather than Lamar Smith's interpretation of what the Founding Fathers thought about a subject they never addressed?