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Ellen Goodman: Defense of Marriage Act is becoming indefensible

By ADF Alliance Alert

Ellen Goodman writes at the Seattle Times: "First, Iowa joined Massachusetts and Connecticut. Then Vermont followed with the first legislative approval. And a bill was just introduced in New York, where people cringe to find themselves lagging behind Iowa. This is all part of a careful state-by-state strategy. But as a side effect, it's producing more Americans with a strange dual citizenship: Married in the eyes of Iowa, single in the eyes of Washington. Eligible for a pension, health care, family leave in the eyes of the state; ineligible in the eyes of the feds. DOMA is doing it . . ."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 17, 2009 (boomark / email).