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Supreme Court strikes down DOMA; rules it interferes with states, ‘dignity’ of same-sex marriages

A major victory for gay couples in !2 states and District of Columbia.

Originally Posted by Lampada

Supreme Court strikes down DOMA; rules it interferes with states, ‘dignity’ of same-sex marriages

A major victory for gay couples in !2 states and District of Columbia.

To be more clear, it struck down Section 3 of DOMA -- which said, in effect, that the federal government would not recognize same-sex marriages that were legal in certain states, such as Massachusetts. But Section 2 of DOMA -- which says, in effect, that individual states such as Texas do not have to recognize same-sex marriages from other states like Massachusetts -- still stands. So, in practice, if a gay Texas man with US citizenship is in a relationship with a gay Mexican man, the couple can now obtain a federal "green card" for the foreign partner by the route of getting legally married in Massachusetts, or Maryland, or DC. However, their out-of-state marriage would have no force under Texas law -- only for federal purposes.

P.S. I haven't had time yet to read over the full text of the SCOTUS decision, so even though I like the result, I'm not really sure whether the case was "well decided" or if it contains potentially dangerous precedents. I'm not a fan of Justice "Pit Bull" Scalia, but I see some wisdom in his warnings about giving the judiciary too much power.

Originally Posted by Lampada

Supreme Court strikes down DOMA; rules it interferes with states, ‘dignity’ of same-sex marriages

A major victory for gay couples in !2 states and District of Columbia.

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