REPEAL OF DOMA
Goals/Objectives
Military personal in same-sex marriages
No medical benefits
Same-sex couples do not have housing benefits
Repeal "Don't ask don't tell"
Allow same-sex spouses to sponser immigrant spouses
End Discrimation of homosexuals
Shepard-Byrd Act
End Discrimation in work place
Classify acts of violence against homosexuals as Hate Crimes
Federal Government recognition
Social Security
Health insurance
Joint taxes
Retirement benefits
Recognize same-sex marriages in all states
Only 16 states allow same-sex marriages
Interest groups
Opposed
Federal Government
After the repeal of DOMA federal government
will have to grant the same rights to same-sex couples
Salvation Army
Chick-fil-a
Overly religioius communities
Conservative/Republicans
Republican party takes pledge
to "protect marriage"
Supporters
more liberal
Celebrities
Couples with immigrant partners
Heterosexual people
Military same-sex couples
GLAAD (Gay&Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
Same-Sex couples
It Get's Better Campaign
Obama Adminitration
Respect for Marriage Act.
Require federal goverment to recognize the validity of same-sex marraige
Proposed bill by Congress to repeal DOMA.
Supported by: Obama admistration
Bob Barr
former President Bill Clinton
What is DOMA?
Signed by President Bill Clinton
appointed openly LGTB people to his Administration
Clinton pushed for AIDS funding
Defense of Marriage Act
Allowed states to refuse to Recognize same-sex marriage
Section 3. Defines marriage and spouses as a legal union between man and woman.
In 1996 Designed to define and protect the institution of marraige
