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Supreme Court ruling of DOMA and Prop. 8 to be decided on 6/26 at 10 AM - Eos - 2013-06-27
FrozNlite Wrote:Well that's the thing. From what I understand the important reality is that DOMA isn't actually dead - just the key provision declaring that the federal government didn't recognize same-sex marriages. States, however, can still choose how they recognize marriages, so no
The latter of this has nothing to do with the former. DOMA is effectively dead. From our stance the federal refusal to recognize marriage was DOMA. DOMA never had anything to do with the state's rights and if DOMA never had existed it still would've been up to each individual state as to how they define marriage, just as it always has been. There's no correlation there.
MariaColette Wrote:Now I'm incredibly dumb on political stuff like this, but with DOMA dead, how does getting married with a same-sex partner work now if your state still doesn't allow it? I would imagine you can marry elsewhere, yes, but it'd probably still be an issue to move back.
It's pretty straightforward; You're married from the perspective of the federal government and not married from the perspective of any state that doesn't permit it or recognize it.
Supreme Court ruling of DOMA and Prop. 8 to be decided on 6/26 at 10 AM - MariettaRC - 2013-06-28
Eos Wrote:It's pretty straightforward; You're married from the perspective of the federal government and not married from the perspective of any state that doesn't permit it or recognize it.
So what would this mean for a non-citizen in a same-sex relationship with a citizen?
I was looking it up and it says it applies to US citizenship as well, but does that mean one can be recognized as a citizen without regards to location if they're in a same-sex marriage? That's what I'm hoping it means, but I'm stupid when it comes to this stuff. 
Supreme Court ruling of DOMA and Prop. 8 to be decided on 6/26 at 10 AM - Eos - 2013-06-28
Citizenship is determined by federal law, not state law, because it's citizenship of the United States of America, not of the individual state.
States only determine residency, which marriage has no impact on.
Supreme Court ruling of DOMA and Prop. 8 to be decided on 6/26 at 10 AM - MariettaRC - 2013-06-28
Holy pomegranate, if that's the case, someone's going to be very happy to hear this... lord knows I already am!
