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Obama Wont Defend the Defense of Marriage Act

TylerIE · 2011-02-23 22:17:49

For anybody unaware the Defense of Marriage Act (or DOMA) was brought in by Clinton and defined marriage as being between one man and one woman. It also limited the right of federal agencies to give same sex couples (even those who were CP'd) the same rights as their married counterparts - e.g. with health insurance, and…

23-02-2011 10:17pm

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Excitement rippled through the offices of gay organizations, human rights groups, and equality-minded politicians as soon as news broke on Wednesday that the Justice Department will not defend the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act. While DOMA is far from dead — it's likely congressional leaders will be able to defend the law in a federal appellate court — many reacted with jubilation. Here's what they're saying:

“Congressional leaders must not waste another taxpayer dollar defending this patently unconstitutional law. The federal government has no business picking and choosing which legal marriages they want to recognize. Instead Congress should take this opportunity to wipe the stain of marriage discrimination from our laws." — Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese

For anybody unaware the Defense of Marriage Act (or DOMA) was brought in by Clinton and defined marriage as being between one man and one woman. It also limited the right of federal agencies to give same sex couples (even those who were CP'd) the same rights as their married counterparts - e.g. with health insurance, and is often used by the anti SSM Lobby over there as yet another reason not to allow SSM in an individual state....

With this hopefully a "beginning of the end" of DOMA, hopefully it will lead to less obstacles to SSM across the states...

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