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Respect For Marriage Act Essay

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For this journal entry, I have decided to review the Respect for Marriage Act. The Respect for Marriage Act, was introduced in 2009, as a repeal to Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, which deems that the federal government does not recognize marriages of same sex couples. The Respect for Marriage Act was then reintroduced in 2015. The Respect for Marriage Act is a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage (https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/29)., amends the Defense of Marriage Act to repeal a provision that prohibited state, territory, possession, or Indian tribe from being required to recognize any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other state, …show more content…

It removes the definition of “spouse” (currently, a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife). (https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/29) The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), originally enacted in September of 1996, was a United States federal law that, before being ruled unconstitutional, defined marriage for federal purposes as the union of a man and woman, and gave states the permission to states decline recognizing same-sex marriages, even though they were valid under the laws of other states. This was until Section 3 of the Act was struck down in 2013, (United States v. Windsor), DOMA, in combination with other statutes, had banded same-sex married couples from being recognized as “spouses” for purposes of federal laws, effectively barring them from receiving federal marriage

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