2013-06-27, 11:31 PM
MariaColette Wrote:Oh come on now.
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.
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, you can't go to, say, Massachusetts or New York to get married, then move back to the South and have the same state-given rights as married heterosexual couples. IIRC you have the federal rights (so yay for easier tax filings), but just not anything at that state level.


