{"id":4564,"date":"2010-05-27T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-27T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T11:14:09","slug":"massachusetts-seeks-reversal-of-defense-of-marriage-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2010\/05\/massachusetts-seeks-reversal-of-defense-of-marriage-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts seeks reversal of Defense of Marriage Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts could lose millions in funding &#8211; due to the Defense of Marriage Act &#8211; if it allows Army veteran Darrel Hopkins [65] and his husband Tom Casey Hopkins [58] to be buried in a veterans\u2019 cemetery in Winchendon.  The couple has approval from the Massachusetts state Department of Veterans\u2019 Services to be buried in the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2010\/05\/27\/state_ags_office_seeks_reversal_of_us_marriage_act\/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Local+news\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Boston Globe<\/strong> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glad.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gay &#038; Lesbian Advocates &#038; Defenders<\/a>, a Boston nonprofit, is representing the plaintiffs in the suit argued earlier this month. GLAD helped win the lawsuit that resulted in the landmark 2003 decision by the Supreme Judicial Court legalizing gay marriage in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Koppelman, a Northwestern University law professor and an authority on same-sex marriage laws, said the plaintiffs in both suits before Tauro have made strong arguments that could prompt the judge to strike down the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven how similar the theories are, it would be very strange if the state won and GLAD lost, or vice versa, because they\u2019re both relying on the same equal-protection claim,\u2019\u2019 he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts could lose millions in funding &#8211; due to the Defense of Marriage Act &#8211; if it allows Army veteran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,195],"tags":[1971,393],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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