Excerpt: | Progressives have a lot to celebrate this morning. In a pair of much-anticipated decisions, the United States Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act” and let stand a lower court decision invalidating California’s Proposition 8, a 2008 attempt to amend California’s Constitution to outlaw civil marriages by same-sex […] |
Published at: | 9:05 AM on Wednesday, June 26th, 2013 |
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Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
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Categories: | Breaking News, Civil Liberties, Litigation, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Marriage Equality |
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A HUGE morning for mariage equality: DOMA is unconstitutional, Proposition 8 is history