[Amendment10]

All that DOMA did was to win votes for incumbent federal lawmakers from voters who don't know the Constitution, particularly the Founding States' division of federal and state government powers.

More specifically, noting that the states have never delegated to Congress via the Constitution the specific power to regulate marriage, the Founders made the 10th Amendment to clarify in general that such issues are automatically state power issues.

So I will reluctantly side with justices who decide that federal DOMA is unconstitutional. The joke is on patriots who don't bother to read the Constitution.

[rollo tomasi]

I hope you also call for the abolishment of the Social Security Act and any Federal benefit that goes towards spouses of the deceased. Also Mr. Constitutional scholar, how would you go about revoking the income tax laws, federal mind you, that grant spousal "benefits"? Built in all those Federal laws are specific areas in which the Federal government defines what a spouse is, and it ain't Adam and Steve.

In theory you are correct, but the Federal government's expansion in the 20th century clearly convoluted your theory. Please read what constitutes a spouse, say wife, under the Social Security Act. This becomes self evident that a need to define a legal marriage is required if people understood reason instead of a Constitution which has been trampled upon way before DOMA.

[rbmillerjr]

“The joke is on patriots who don’t bother to read the Constitution.”

No. The joke is on people who think they can interpret the Constitution with a straw man 2nd grade interpretation that is best utilized watching cartoons and InfoWars.

[xkaydet65]

You might be flamed but I reluctantly agree. Besides the X Amendment there is the full faith and credit clause. In the 40s, 50s and early 60s partners seeking divorce ended up in Reno Nev. States like NY which recognized adultery and physical abuse as the only reasons for dissolution of the marriage still had to recognize Nevada divorces when the parties returned to NY. The purpose of DOMA was to allow states the cover of federal statute if the will of the legislature or polity did not want to accept same sex marriage when those same sex partners returned or moved to their state.

[wastedyears]

So I will reluctantly side with justices who decide that federal DOMA is unconstitutional. The joke is on patriots who don't bother to read the Constitution.

I agree with that too. It's a moral issue and the federal government should not have any business in making laws on moral issues. It should be left entirely to the states.