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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