Way 2 Go Massachusetts

Attorney General Martha Coakley stated, after a Federal district court judge in Boston struck down a 1996 Federal law that defined a marriage as a union exclusively between a man and a woman, “It is unconstitutional for the federal government to discriminate, as it does because of Defense of Marriage's restrictive definition of marriage. It is also unconstitutional for the federal government to decide who is married and to create a system of first- and second-class marriages.”