{"id":972,"date":"2012-06-01T16:21:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2012-06-01T16:21:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:21:02","slug":"boston-federal-appeals-court-finds-defense-of-marriage-act-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/06\/boston-federal-appeals-court-finds-defense-of-marriage-act-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston federal appeals court finds Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court in Boston has confirmed a lower court decision that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional in the way it denies benefits to gay couples by not recognizing their marriages.<\/p>\n<p>The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld a ruling from 2010 that the law withholding the federal benefits of marriage from states which allow their citizens to marry regardless of gender was in conflict with the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense of Marriage Act denies gay spouses Social Security survivor benefits, the ability to file joint tax returns and health insurance rights enjoyed by straight married couples.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2012\/05\/31\/boston-appeals-court-finds-defense-of-marriage-act-unconstitutional\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Pinknews+%28Pink+News%29\">Read More <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/06\/MoakleyCourthouseCREDflickryosoynuts.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-973\" title=\"MoakleyCourthouseCREDflickryosoynuts\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/06\/MoakleyCourthouseCREDflickryosoynuts.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MoakleyCourthouseCREDflickryosoynuts.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MoakleyCourthouseCREDflickryosoynuts.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MoakleyCourthouseCREDflickryosoynuts.jpg?resize=175%2C175&amp;ssl=1 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court in Boston has confirmed a lower court decision that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional in the way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-humor","news-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}