Legal Hetero marriages. I still don't know if the 14th affords protection to homosexual marriage. Here the wording in the bill of DOMA...
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the " Defense of Marriage Act" .
SECTION 2. POWERS RESERVED TO THE STATES.
(a) IN GENERAL.-CHAPTER 115 OF TITLE 28, UNITED STATES CODE, IS AMENDED BY ADDING AFTER SECTION 1738B THE FOLLOWING:
"1738C. Certain acts, records, and proceedings and the effect thereof
"No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.".
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Now its really confusing, and I think what I'm seeing is that states don't have to recognize. I could be wrong though. Here is an article on the bill from when it was passed in 1996
http://www.cnn.com/US/9609/10/gay.marriage/
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The Senate gave final congressional approval Tuesday to a bill that would deny federal recognition of same-sex marriages and give states the right to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages licensed in other states.
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The measure would not bar states from legalizing gay marriages within their borders, but states would not be obligated to recognize such marriages performed in another state.
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