Will the Mormon Corporation Join the Fight? (link)

[_The Mighty Builder]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06 ... ht-on?lite

". . . . opponents vowed to keep up their campaign in a pitched state-by-state battle."

"But opponents said the decision in DOMA upheld another key part of that federal law known as Section 2.

“Which means that the states still get to define marriage for themselves and don't have to recognize marriages performed in other states and I think that part of the holding -- the deference to the states definition of marriage – actually calls into question the Proposition 8 ruling” at the district court level in which it was struck down, said John Eastman, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, which has spent tens of millions of dollars to bring votes in dozens of states blocking same-sex
“We clearly have a mixed ruling here. Justice Kennedy did not say that all states must recognize same-sex marriage. In fact, his opinion is full of deference to the states determination of marriage policy.""

[_Baker]

Equal protection issue - and an invitation to challenge states' determinations of the definition of marriage on those grounds. In other words, states remain free to define marriage, but subject to challenge that their definitions are constitutional.

[_Equality]

"But opponents said the decision in DOMA upheld another key part of that federal law known as Section 2.

Said opponents are either ignorant or dissembling. The Windsor opinion today did not "uphold" Section 2. Windsor addressed only the constitutionality of Section 3 of DOMA. The Supreme Court does not decide issues not before it. Challenges to Section 2 of DOMA are working their way through the courts and I think it is likely that one of those cases will find its way to the Supreme Court in the next few years, at which time the Supreme Court will have a chance to uphold it or strike it down. Section 2 of DOMA stands as good law for now, but it is not correct to say that the Windsor case upheld it--it simply did not address the question.