In papers filed in the case of Windsor v. United States, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman challenged the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage for federal purposes as a union between a man and a woman.

The papers ask the federal court to accept the Attorney General’s friend-of-the-court brief, which argues that DOMA violates same-sex couples’ right to equal protection under the law as required by the U.S. Constitution.

In a statement, the Attorney General said:

“The State of New York has long recognized out-of-state, same-sex marriages and the enactment of the Marriage Equality Act further cements our state’s position on this critical civil rights issue. My office will fight every day to defend the fundamental guarantee of equal protection under law for all New Yorkers.”

The Attorney General’s statement seems much more political claptrap than guiding principle. If the AG is interested in providing equal protection for all New Yorkers, then Schneiderman could have stood up and defended the religious freedoms of clerks who had to make a choice between serving their God or their job when it came to issuing same-sex “marriage” licenses. His failure to do so, demonstrated the true color of his political stripes.

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