WASHINGTON, July 1, 2013 — DOMA is dead. Good riddance. The so-called Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 was a terrible idea in the first place when Congress, in its so-called wisdom, passed the law that denied equality to more than 10+ million people. Last week Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion for the High Court overturning DOMA, summed it up best: “The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the State, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity. “By seeking to displace this protection and treating those persons as living in...
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