{"id":5217,"date":"2011-02-24T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T12:01:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-24T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T12:01:57","slug":"senator-feinstein-defense-of-marriage-act-should-be-repealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/02\/senator-feinstein-defense-of-marriage-act-should-be-repealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Feinstein: Defense of Marriage Act should be repealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs a Member of the Judiciary Committee, it is my intention to introduce legislation that will once and for all repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. My own belief is that when two people love each other and enter the contract of marriage, the Federal government should honor that. I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It was the wrong law then; it is the wrong law now; and it should be repealed.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This is a statement delivered by <a href=\"http:\/\/feinstein.senate.gov\/public\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein&#8217;s (D-CA)<\/a> following Attorney General Eric Holder\u2019s decision on lawsuits challenging the <cite>Defense of Marriage Act<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>The current law defines marriage for federal purposes as only between a man and a woman, denying federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples. <\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=172516468500&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:comments numposts=\"10\" width=\"425\" publish_feed=\"true\"><\/fb:comments><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs a Member of the Judiciary Committee, it is my intention to introduce legislation that will once and for all<\/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":[195,64],"tags":[668,1487],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Senator Feinstein: Defense of Marriage Act should be repealed - Proud Parenting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/02\/senator-feinstein-defense-of-marriage-act-should-be-repealed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senator Feinstein: Defense of Marriage Act should be repealed - Proud Parenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cAs a Member of the Judiciary Committee, it is my intention to introduce legislation that will once and for all\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/02\/senator-feinstein-defense-of-marriage-act-should-be-repealed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Proud Parenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ProudParenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-02-24T12:01:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editorial Staff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editorial Staff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/02\/senator-feinstein-defense-of-marriage-act-should-be-repealed\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/02\/senator-feinstein-defense-of-marriage-act-should-be-repealed\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editorial Staff\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/bd1f88f6dfdb00b831bfdda339ec5cf9\"},\"headline\":\"Senator Feinstein: Defense of Marriage Act should be repealed\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-02-24T12:01:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-02-24T12:01:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/02\/senator-feinstein-defense-of-marriage-act-should-be-repealed\/\"},\"wordCount\":135,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"DOMA\",\"Sen. 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