Gay rights law group: We’ll take on Obama’s Justice Department over DOMA and beat them

The gay rights group that argued on the winning side of Thursday's court ruling declaring the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional said Friday that it expects the Department of Justice to appeal the decision, and it's confident the cause of gay rights will prevail.

"We fully expect that the Obama administration will appeal the decision," Janson Wu, an attorney for Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) involved with the case, told Raw Story. "It would be unusual if they didn't. Typically, when a court strikes down a law as unconstitutional, the government appeals it.

"To be honest, we think that would be good," Wu added. "The federal government wants to discriminate against gay and lesbian couples, and that's just not enough to stand constitutional scrutiny. So we're confident we'll win."

GLAD successfully argued that same-sex couples deserve equal protections and benefits under the law as heterosexual couples, and intends to do the same if it reaches a higher court.

Wu said GLAD would argue that DOMA is "discriminatory and unconstitutional, because it basically treats married same-sex couples differently from married different-sex couples for no rational reason."