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	Defense of Marriage President Clinton DOMA was signed by President Clinton on Sept. 21, 1996, becoming Pub.L. 104-199, 110 Stat. 2419, codified at 1 USC 7 and 28 USC 1738C.  It passed the Congress as H.R. 3396.  President Bush http://www.kofc.org/un/eb/en/news/legislative/detail/83533.html Federal http://www.domawatch.org/about/federaldoma.html State (NC) http://www.domawatch.org/stateissues/northcarolina/index.html United States Bishop’s Conference http://www.kofc.org/un/eb/en/news/legislative/detail/83534.html Knights http://www.kofc.org/un/eb/en/news/legislative/detail/84813.html http://www.kofc.org/un/eb/en/news/legislative/detail/61186.html Groups http://www.defenseofmarriagecoalition.org/ http://ncfamily.org/ http://ncfamily.org/specialsma.html Actions Get informed – read the links and information Take Action Recruit others to get involved Write representatives Write newspapers Keep informed Follow-up Talking Points Religions have always indicated that marriage is only between one man and one women. This issue doesn’t lead to discrimination to gays/lesbians just protects what marriage has always been interpreted to mean. An association between two people of the same sex can use another term to define it.
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