DOMA is ruled unconstitutional based on animus
Posted: 6/26/13
Ruling
By 5–4 Section 3 of DOMA is ruled unconstitutional today (6/26/13) by the U.S. Supreme Court based on animus.
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What this decision does and does not mean
- The federal government must accept whatever a state defines as a marriage.
- It is much easier and very easy to legalize religious discrimination and persecution based on this ruling since those who disagree have been labeled by the U.S. Supreme Court as bigots and hateful.
- States that have fortified marriage as only one man and one woman in their state constitutions still won't recognize marriages performed in other states.
- The wording of this ruling sets the stage for an overturning of all state amendments at a later time.
Section 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the "Defense of Marriage Act".
Section 2. Powers reserved to the states
No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.
Section 3. Definition of marriage (ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court)
In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word 'marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word 'spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.
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