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Gay Immigration Petitions? Obama Orders Holder to Cease Enforcing DOMA

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President Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 to stop federal benefits and full faith and credit status for same sex marriage. Obama's decision to cease support for DOMA is major news.
 

On February 23, 2011, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed that President Obama instructed Attorney General Eric Holder to cease defending the Defense of Marriage Act.  Obama claimed that this was not a political decision, but a legal one.  He and the Attorney General concluded that the Act was unconstitutional.  Read the White House press briefing transcript.

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