House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on
Wednesday responded to comments from Congresswoman Michele Bachmann
criticizing the Supreme Court's rulings on gay marriage.
Bachmann, a Republican from Minnesota,
had led an effort in the Minnesota Senate to approve a constitutional
amendment limiting marriage to heterosexual unions. Last year,
voters rejected such an amendment, and lawmakers this year approved a
marriage law.
“Marriage was created by the hand of
God,” Bachmann said in a statement. “No man, not even a Supreme
Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted.”
“For thousands of years of recorded
human history, no society has defended the legal standard of marriage
as anything other than between man and woman. Only since 2000 have
we seen a redefinition of this foundational unit of society in
various nations. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to join the
trend, despite the clear will of the people's representatives through
DOMA.”
“What the court has done will
undermine the best interests of children and the best interests of
the United States,” she concluded.
When asked for a response to Bachmann's
statement during a press conference, Pelosi simply answered: “Who
cares?”