About
DOMAwatch.org
DOMA Watch is a joint effort by the growing coalition of
Americans and their various organizations that support the
preservation of marriage as a union of one man and one woman.
A number of the pro-marriage organizations listed as “For
DOMA” have contributed information to this website.
We have created DOMA Watch because of escalating efforts
to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. There have
been approximately 68 lawsuits over the issue of same-sex
“marriage” since the first cases were filed in
about 1971. Only 10 of those lawsuits were filed in the 25-year
period from 1971 to 1996 before the U.S. Supreme Court issued
its decision in Romer v. Evans, which struck down Colorado’s
constitutional amendment banning laws specifically protecting
sexual orientation. Fifty or more lawsuits have been filed
since the Supreme Court’s sodomy decision in Lawrence
v. Texas on June 26, 2003.
Of the 34 cases that have been decided to date, Ten courts
have ruled that there is a right to same-sex “marriage.”
Three of those decisions have been overturned by constitutional
amendment (Hawaii, Alaska, and California), three have been reversed by state supreme courts (two in Washington and one in New York). Massachusetts and Connecticut now issue marriage
licenses to same-sex couples.
One of the
most troubling developments over the past two years is the
judicial perspective on same-sex “marriage.” Many
of the judges that reject constitutional claims nevertheless express or imply their
personal support for redefining marriage, albeit through the
democratic process. This trend points to the ultimate need
for a federal solution through a Federal Marriage Amendment.
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