My understanding is that in the case in question, the Federal law part of the statue is struck down, meaning "married" homosexuals in Massachusetts will be able to be recognized by the federal government for government bennies - social security survivor benefits, file jointly on tax return, etc. States will still purportedly be able to not observe fake marriages. But, of course, this is an eroding of the damn. It will eventually be construed to mean portability of these fake "marriages" from other states into the 35 states that don't recognize them.
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The meaning of this is that the Administration wants the Court to make SSA a “strict scrutiny” category, so that the USSC can use XIV to overrule all state anti-gay “marriage” statutes and state constitutional amendments.