DOMA Ruled Unconstitutional, Finally

 Today, 14 states in the USA allow same-sex marriage. However, same-sex married couples were denied the rights and benefits granted to straight married couples due to the Deffence of Marrige Act or DOMA. This law was made in 1996 to protect "the institution of traditional marriage." Now that same-sex marriage is legal in some states, the law negatively affected people who were married in an "untraditional" way. This year, on June 26, DOMA was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Finally, same-sex couples have access to the federal benefits of straight couples. Another step has been made towards equlaity. The following link leads to an article on Huffington Post that explains DOMA and the battle to repeal it. The article was posted in May of 2012, over a year before it was repealed. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1559031

The article states argrruments both for and against the repeal of DOMA.