By Val Brickates Kennedy
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- A Boston federal appeals court has ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it interferes with the rights of individual states to pass their own marriage laws and denies federal benefits to legally married gay couples, such as the ability to file joint tax returns, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The ruling, however, did not address another controversial component of the law which says that states without gay-marriage laws are not required to recognize same-sex marriages conducted in states with such laws. Passed by Congress in 1996, the Defense of Marriage Act was intended to legally define marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
这问题迟早要打到最高法院
