DOMA decisions released

[Shana A]

DOMA decisions released
by Lisa Keen
contributing writer
Thursday Jul 8, 2010

http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=107807 🔗 [Link: baywindows.com/index.php/]

In an enormous victory for same-sex marriage, a federal judge in Boston today (Thursday, July ruled, in two separate cases, that a critical part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional.

In one challenge brought by the state of Massachusetts, Judge Joseph Tauro ruled that Congress violated the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution when it passed DOMA and took from the states decisions concerning which couples can be considered married. In the other, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, he ruled DOMA violates the equal protection principles embodied in the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

[Hikari]

Good, we need to get rid of DOMA, but I bet people are going to appeal to the supreme court. I hope the court would strike it down, but the court being what it is, I really can't be sure with the current judges...