The People's Champion has cited a story on the Massachusetts Attorney General filing suit against the federal government over the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The chief basis of the suit seems to be that the business of marriage is a state and not a federal one, then it goes on to discuss discrimination. On the federal/state issue alone, it sounds right.
It is unconstitutional for the federal government to discriminate, as it does because of DOMA's restrictive definition of marriage. It is also unconstitutional for the federal government to decide who is married and to create a system of first- and second-class marriages. The federal government cannot require states, such as Massachusetts, to further the discrimination through federal programs, either. The time has come for this injustice to end. More...
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