Wow, anti-gay laws really don’t survive when actual legal scholars, AKA judges, are asked to rule on them. Here’s the latest ruling against the ridiculously unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act:
Another federal judge has struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), finding that the law “should not be presumed to be constitutional, and should instead be subject to a heightened form of judicial scrutiny.”
The victory comes in the case of Edie Windsor, who was seeking a refund of the federal estate tax paid by the estate of her late wife. From the ruling:
The Court declares that section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional as applied to the Plaintiff. Plaintiff is awarded judgment in the amount of $353,053.00, plus interest and costs allowed by law.
More background on the case is here, and you can read the entire ruling here.
DOMA is, among other things, a homosexuality tax.
It taxes gay couples at a higher rate than straight couples, and that unholy tax subsidizes:
1) the Christian Right’s federal faith-based initiatives against religious minorities,
2) federal management of heterosexuals’ interstate divorce, child-support, and child-custody disputes, and
3) foreign aid to nations that do not recognize the human rights of LGBT persons.