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The other significant part of DOMA makes it so that individual states do not legally have to acknowledge the relationships of gay and lesbian couples who were married in another state. Only the section that dealt with federal recognition was ruled unconstitutional.
Section Three is the part that prevented the federal government from recognizing any marriages between gay or lesbian couples for the purpose of federal laws or programs, even if those couples are considered legally married by their home state. The U. Section 2 declares that all states and territories have the right to deny recognition of the marriage of same sex couples that originated in states where they are legally recognized.
Who were the plaintiffs in the DOMA case? The federal government did not recognize her marriage, and this outcome was the result. Following a ruling of the U. It means the federal government has to recognize the legal marriages of same-sex couples.
Because of Section 2 of DOMA, the ruling does not require any state to legalize or recognize a lawful marriage from another state. The ruling on DOMA will have major effects on families concerning a number of different federal rights which provide necessary marital benefits. Some areas that are affected include military family benefits, social security benefits, multiple areas of tax categories, hospital visitation rights, and healthcare benefits.
These are just a few of the numerous marital benefits that were denied to families because of DOMA, but will now be granted to same-sex couples in legal marriages. Those that are married in a state where marriage equality is legal, but live in a state where it is not may have a harder time receiving benefits. Because different organizations base benefits off of where a couple lives, as opposed to where they were married, those who are legally married but live in a state without marriage equality may not be privy to the newly accessible benefits.
Because the federal government now recognizes benefits under DOMA, binational couples will be allowed to sponsor foreign-born spouses for United States residency.
As a result of DOMA, married same-sex couples are denied things like:. Furthermore, one of the most basic things that spouses often provide for each other is access to workplace health benefits. Many employers do provide equal access to health benefits to the spouses of all their employees—different sex and same-sex alike. But because the federal government does not recognize the marriages of same-sex couples, lesbian and gay employees who sign their spouses up for health insurance must pay income taxes on the amount of the premium as if that were part of their paycheck.
Different-sex couples whose employers provide family health care coverage can enroll in that coverage tax-free. Beyond all those tangible things, it's very upsetting to couples who are legally married to have their federal government completely disregard their marriages and families.
The damage it causes for our families must end. We are waiting to learn whether the U. Supreme Court will hear our case representing Karen Golinski , who is fighting for family health insurance that equally covers her spouse. If the Supreme Court takes our case or one of three others , we will work together to strike this discriminatory law from the books once and for all.
Stand up to defeat DOMA.
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