If you smelled something burning last week, it may have been the Connecticut Bar Association’s e-mail server. Attorneys flooded the organization’s listservs with their opinions on a proposal that the CBA sign onto an amicus brief opposing the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.

Many criticized the notion that the CBA dare to weigh in on an issue now being considered in federal courts across America – one almost certain to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in the not-so-distant future.