An attorney for the nation’s largest Republican gay rights group has told a judge he will use President Obama’s statements in a federal court lawsuit challenging the government’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military.

In his opening statement Tuesday at the trial in Riverside, Calif., attorney Dan Woods said he will enter as evidence Obama’s comments that the policy has weakened national security.

Woods is representing the Log Cabin Republicans. The group wants the judge to halt the policy, which prohibits military members from acknowledging they are gay and requiring them to be discharged if they are discovered to be.

The case puts the government in the position of defending the policy while Obama is pushing Congress to repeal it.

By JULIE WATSON, Associated Press Writers
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