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Home > Publications >: "Far from effecting any departure from past practice, DOMA merely reaffirmed and made crystal clear what Congress had always meant by the term "marriage" in provisions of federal law: a male-female union. DOMA doesn't intrude at all on a state's authority to regulate marriage under state law. It doesn't nullify or prohibit any marriages, or in any other respect preempt the operation of state law. On the contrary, it leaves the states free to define, or redefine, marriage as they please. That point is illustrated by the fact that nine states (as well as the District of Columbia) have adopted same-sex marriage since DOMA's enactment."

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