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Massachusetts sues feds over DOMA - OK but not great

July 8, 2009, 4:55PM

Much better than recent previous filings, the state of Massachusetts suit against the Defense of Marriage Act is surely more likely to get legal standing.

BUT... but... but...

As I discuss in detail, there's a downside starting with Massachusetts deliberately avoiding raising the  "full faith and credit clause" of the U.S. Constitution in challenging DOMA.

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Community newspaper editor for more than a decade; currently in suburban Dallas. Undergraduate liberal arts degree. Graduate divinity degree. Politically? An eclectic, skeptic LEFT-liberal. Voted Green (and, no, NOT Nader) in 2004 and 2008. Atheist and supporter of efforts of most New Atheist writers.

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