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" marriage" means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, the word spouse refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife. "
Defense of Marriage Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution ... - Page 24
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - 2004 - 108 pages
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Defense of Marriage Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - Family & Relationships - 1996 - 262 pages
...possibly mean. It surely cannot be a novelty to make explicit what has ever been our tradition, that marriage "means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife." That cannot be the earth-shaking novelty here. The legislation is unprecedented only in the sense that,...
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The Defense of Marriage Act: Hearing Before the Committee on the ..., Volume 4

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...
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In the Name of the Family: Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age

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...
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The Defense of Marriage Act: Hearing Before the Committee on the ..., Volume 4

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...
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Practices and Principles: Approaches to Ethical and Legal Judgment

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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Family Values and the New Society: Dilemmas of the 21st Century

George P. Smith - Law - 1998 - 302 pages
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Gays, Lesbians, & Family Values

Elizabeth A. Say, Mark R. Kowalewski - Families - 1998 - 156 pages
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