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    • DOJ won't defend denial of gay military spouse benefits

      The U.S. Department of Justice has announced it will no longer defend laws that keep same-sex spouses of service members from getting the same benefits as straight married couples.

      There is no reason to treat these laws any differently than the Defense of Marriage Act, which Holder’s department is also no longer defending, he said in a letter to Congress today. Military-specific sections of the U.S. Code that exclude same-sex partners from the definition of spouse, “as applied to same-sex couples who are legally married under state law, violate the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment” to the U.S. Constitution, Holder wrote in the letter, posted online by Talking Points Memo. 

      Such an important stance to take. 

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