| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Under Section 3 of DOMA, the terms ???marriage??? and ???spouse??? were defined to exclude same-sex married couples for purposes of interpreting federal statutes, rules, and regulations.[1] As a result, same-sex married couples were denied more than 1,000 federally-protected rights and obligations, including Social Security benefits, automatic pension death benefits, pre-tax employer-provided heal
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