| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Digital images - 1996 - 88 pages
...politicians want to change it. Maybe some activist groups want to change it. But to define marriage as "a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife" I don't think is mean-spirited, I don't think is intolerant. The act also defines spouse as "a person... | |
| Judith Stacey - Social Science - 1997 - 212 pages
...introduced the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which defines marriage in exclusively heterosexual terms, as "a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife." The last legislation that Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole co-sponsored before he resigned... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Law - 1996 - 96 pages
...section of the bill creates a definition of marriage for all federal purposes. The definition says that a marriage means "only a legal union between one man and one woman * * *." Just as the law struck down in Loving v. Virginia, 388 US 1 (1967) discriminated on the basis... | |
| Mark Tunick - Law - 1998 - 268 pages
...treated as a marriage; and it would define marriage for the purpose of interpreting federal law as a "legal union between one man and one woman as husband and 48 Cf. Richard Flathman's criticism of Hanna Pitkin's "semantic rule approach" in his Political Obligation... | |
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