All citizens are equal under the law, including to marry the people they love. The Political Right Wing of the USA is "W"rong to victimize any citizen of the USA. What can happen to one can happen to all. The GOP ought to hang its head in shame for their priorities in victimizing women, minorities including the Hispanics STILL waiting for the Dream Act and the Gay Community.
Defense
of Marriage Act
By Globe Staff
MAY 31, 2012
Elected officials and activists (click here) from around Massachusetts and
around the country are reacting to the First US Circuit
Court of Appeals ruling in Boston that the federal Defense of
Marriage Act is unconstitutional:
“Society should protect and strengthen marriage, not undermine it.
The federal Defense of Marriage Act provides that type of protection, and we
trust the U.S. Supreme Court will reverse the 1st Circuit’s erroneous
decision.”
“In allowing one state to hold the federal government, and
potentially other states, hostage to redefine marriage, the 1st Circuit
attempts a bridge too far. Under this rationale, if just one state decided to
accept polygamy, the federal government and perhaps other states would be
forced to accept it, too. The federal government had the right to step in
against polygamy at one time in our nation’s history, and it has the right to
step in against this attempt at marriage redefinition as well.”
— Dale Schowengerdt, legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund,
an alliance of Christian attorneys
