Supreme Court Opinion invalidating DOMA

""DOMA’s history of enactment and its own text demonstrate that interference with the equal dignity of same-sex marriages, conferred by the States in the exercise of their sovereign power, was more than an incidental effect of the federal statute. It was its essence."		http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-307_g2bh.pdf"
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