"Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Out of this resistance, the LGBT rights movement in America was born. During LGBT Pride Month, we commemorate the events of June 1969 and commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans."

That didn't come from some radical LGBT group's website, but rather from the White House in its proclamation in support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month on June 1st.

Less than two weeks after the popular proclamation, the Obama administration went to court to support the Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA:

The administration is seeking dismissal of a suit by Arthur Smelt and Christopher Hammer of Mission Viejo (Orange County), who married last year before California voters passed Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples...The couple argue that the federal law unconstitutionally deprives them of benefits granted to opposite-sex spouses, including recognition of their marriage in other states. The Justice Department said Smelt and Hammer lacked legal standing to make such claims, because they have not applied for federal benefits or sought out-of-state recognition.

But the department also defended the 1996 law's restrictions. Its court filing steered clear of the justification of the law it had offered under President George W. Bush: that it promotes a traditional form of marriage best suited for procreating and raising children.

Instead, the Obama administration argued that the law preserves long-standing state authority to define marriage while saving taxpayer dollars.