[Amendment10]

Dissenting (Alito -- correctly -- notes that in defining marriage, DOMA does not infringe on the States' rights to regulate it.)

Good grief! Defining marriage is an act of regulating marriage which the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to do.

[FredZarguna]

The statute defines marriage for the purposes of the Act in terms of who participates in it in a way consistent with the entire history of law including more than 1000 years of the Common Law and marriage as defined by all 50 states at the time the law was written.

When Alito says the "definition of marriage" under that kind of context it's clear that the definition is expository, falls clearly under the judicial discretion afforded to terms in common use, and is not a regulation. I know you've got an untenable position to defend, but please stop being outrageously silly or I'll have to stop discussing this with you.