m******8 发帖数: 2153 | 1 The Massachusetts attorney general, Martha Coakley, requested that a federal
court in Boston yesterday strike down the federal ban on gay marriage,
arguing that it interfered with the rights of individual states to define
marriage and have those unions recognised by the federal government.
The Assistant Attorney General, Maura Healey, pointed out that historically,
states have had the right to define marriage on their own terms and that
the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) could result in the |
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