White House urges Supreme Court to strike down Defense of Marriage Act

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Published: Friday, Feb. 22 2013 12:00 a.m. MST

Friday was the deadline to file briefs in the challenge to the law, scheduled to be heard March 27.

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Our Take: For the last two years the White House has been encouraging courts to eliminate Defense of Marriage Act, which has been in place since 1996. With the deadline at hand, the Supreme Court has received a push from the Obama administration to do away with DOMA.

By forcing a federal definition of "spouse and marriage," the administration argued in a brief, DOMA "violates the fundamental constitutional guarantee of equal protection. The law denies to tens of thousands of same-sex couples who are legally married under state law an array of important federal benefits that are available to legally married opposite-sex couples."

Friday was the deadline to file briefs in the challenge to the law, scheduled to be heard March 27.

Read more about The Defense of Marriage Act on Politico.

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Tolstoy

salt lake, UT

@oatmeal
The very fact you do not want them to use the term marriage proves anything else will not be equal which is why I support obama's position.

8:29 p.m. Feb. 22, 2013
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Kalindra

Salt Lake City, Utah

@the truth
what business is it of theirs, how about the fact that marriage is a civil contract that comes along with over 100 civil protections and benefits that are not extended to those that are not married,

why should you get to More..