The 14th Amendment of the U.S Constitution states that "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States". The gay rights movement has created a controversy to whether of not the U.S. government is depriving all same sex couple of their constitutional right. In the Defense of Marriage Act, congress sated that "No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State". This basically means that if one State passes a law, saying that same sex marriage is legal, other states do not have to acknowledge it. Also they officially defined the word, Marriage, as a union between a man and a women.
In my opinion DOMA is unconstitutional because it denies the people of there constitutional rights and privileges as an American citizen.
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