In 1996, Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act by huge bipartisan votes -- 342 - 67 in the House and 85 - 14 in the Senate. President Bill Clinton signed the measure into law.
Now, the Obama administration says DOMA, which permits states to refuse to recognize gay marriages from other states and creates a federal definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman, is unconstitutional. In Boston recently, Stuart Delery, an attorney for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, urged the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals to find DOMA violates the Constitution by discriminating against...












Half a billion has been given to the IRS to help enforce Obamacare, even while it is debated by the court, as has always been the charge of that court. Another financial straw to break the camel's back.
Only tangentially related is the following, about control, and not health.
An interesting video, even though a case of 'closing the barn door after the horse has gotten out' is http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=G44NCvNDLfc
Why the law was passed by many useful idiots, unread.