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Originally posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Legal Hetero marriages. I still don't know if the 14th affords protection to homosexual marriage. Here the wording in the bill of DOMA...
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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We can't exclude groups of people from the Civil Rights act. That is unconstitutional. And inclusion of everyones equal rights under the law was the intent of the Civil Rights Act. So yes the 14th amendment does cover homosexual rights.
DOMA isn't worth the paper it was written on once it runs counter to the 14th amendment. There will be a small fight but when a simple
act runs up agaisnt a constitutional amendment in a court of law, the act gets trashed.