Number one anti-"gay marriage" group now supports civil unions - time to pass national law

If the most virulently anti-"gay marriage" group of the religious religious right is now in favor of civil unions, then we should ask the US congress to immediately pass a nationwide civil unions law.  At the very least, civil unions should now be exempted from DOMA (which requires the law to be amended), and it calls into question local DOMA laws that ban, or would ban, civil unions - again, if the number one religious right group that opposes gay marriage is now for civil unions, clearly banning them in the states is too extremist even for Republicans.  Also, we should now be using this as evidence that every state that has a DOMA law on the books should be forced to pass civil unions, now.

If GOP super-lawyer Paul Clement isn’t such a bad guy, why does he keep defending bad guys?

GOP super lawyer Paul Clement needs a hug.

Everyone is being mean to him.  And he's not a bad guy, really.  Sure he's making millions defending the anti-gay DOMA law, the anti-Latino Arizona immigration law, and the anti-black South Carolina voter ID law.  By why define a lawyer by the cases he picks, Clement argues.  The law is about all sides getting a robust defense in court, he says.

Then why is it that Paul Clement keeps choosing to defend the bad guys?

Today we learn that Clement will be arguing the constitutionality of health care reform before the Supreme Court.  Guess which side he's taking.

It would be interesting to ask Attorney General Eric Holder, the White House, and Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan - all of whom rose to Clement's defense when he was criticized for taking the DOMA case - why their upstanding friend keeps choosing cases that hurt people.