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    The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was a United States federal law passed by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton...
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    2022 and signed into law by President Joe Biden. It repeals the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), requires the U.S. federal government and all U.S. states...
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  • The State Marriage Defense Act (H.R. 3829, S. 2024 in the 113th Congress, H.R. 824, S. 435 in the 114th Congress) was a proposed law introduced by Republican...
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    hear or decide any question pertaining to the interpretation of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) or the MPA itself. Introduced as H.R. 3313 during the...
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  • Defense of marriage amendment or Defense of marriage act may refer to: Defense of Marriage Act, the statute banning federal recognition of same-sex marriage...
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    state level to restrict marriage to male-female couples, notably the enactment at the federal level of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). On May 17, 2004...
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    Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives to take on the case of defending the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage in federal law as the union...
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    Mike Gabbard (category American anti-same-sex-marriage activists)
    opposite-sex couples" under the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Gabbard, who was born in American Samoa, is the first person of Samoan descent to serve in...
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    a role in the administration's decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) after concluding that the statute was unconstitutional....
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  • Marriage Act may refer to a number of pieces of legislation: Marriage Act 1961, Australia's law that governs legal marriage. Marriage Amendment (Definition...
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    down sodomy laws nationwide, struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, made same-sex marriage legal nationwide, and prohibited employment discrimination...
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  • Supreme Court of the United States overturns the Defense of Marriage Act, which outlaws federal recognition of both same-sex marriage and polygamy. Requiring...
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    Thom Tillis (category Speakers of the North Carolina House of Representatives)
    on same-sex marriage evolved over time, and in 2022 he voted for the Respect for Marriage Act, which repealed the Defense of Marriage Act and codified...
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  • the case of marriage has been rendered moot. In 1996 the U.S. Congress enacted the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a statute defining marriage as being...
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    22, the "California Defense of Marriage Act", is almost the same as that of a federal law, the Defense of Marriage Act, which was enacted by Congress...
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    Tim Huelskamp (category Members of the United States Congress stripped of committee assignment)
    economic policy." After the United States Supreme Court declared the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional on June 26, 2013, Huelskamp immediately...
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  • The Texas Defence of Marriage Act is an act that specifies that US State of Texas does not recognise same-sex marriage or civil union. The statute was...
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    as the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, and the Defense of Marriage Act. The election was a major...
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  • issue in the debate over federal recognition of same-sex marriage. Under the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the federal government was prohibited...
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    same-sex marriage in his campaign. While not stating support of same-sex marriage, the 2008 platform called for repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, which...
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    Andersen v. King County (category History of King County, Washington)
    and the state of Washington for denying them marriage licenses under the state's 1998 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defined marriage as between a...
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  • restrict marriage to male-female couples, notably the enactment at the federal level of the Defense of Marriage Act. The first legal same-sex marriage ceremony...
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  • down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional. 5 – After there was no estoppel in due time, the Secretary of the State of Quintana Roo...
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    Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (category Female members of the United States House of Representatives)
    U.S. Congress to co-sponsor the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. In July 2012, Ros-Lehtinen became the first...
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  • on several court decisions and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Section 3 of DOMA unconstitutional in United States...
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    Marriage Amendment, which would ban same-sex marriage in every U.S. state, and Section 2 of the Defense of Marriage Act, more commonly known as DOMA, which allowed...
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    invalidated a section of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and required the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages. She was a partner at Paul, Weiss...
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    LGBT retirement issues in the United States (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from July 2023)
    medicare, and retirement plans. The Defense of Marriage Act, passed in 1996, prevented same sex couples from attaining some of those benefits, among others,...
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    reference to the issue of gay marriage until May 1996. In a July 2, 2011, editorial The New York Times opined, "The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996...
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  • same-sex marriage. The Court held that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which denied federal recognition of same-sex marriages, was a violation...
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