{"id":5226,"date":"2011-03-01T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T11:20:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-01T11:20:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T11:20:25","slug":"lesbian-widow-s-363-000-tax-bill-influenced-obama-s-stance-on-defense-of-marriage-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/03\/lesbian-widow-s-363-000-tax-bill-influenced-obama-s-stance-on-defense-of-marriage-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesbian widow&#8217;s $363,000 tax bill influenced Obama&#8217;s stance on Defense of Marriage Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edith Windsor [pictured] and Thea Spyer had a 40-year engagement and a two-year marriage, starting with a wedding in Canada recognized under the laws of New York, where they lived, and ending when Spyer died two years ago. Her death triggered a $363,053 federal tax bill from which her widow would have been exempt had she been married to a man. Windsor\u2019s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the act was one of two cited by the Obama administration to justify its decision to stop defending the law. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe that our government would charge me $350,000 because I was married to a woman and not a man,\u201d Windsor, 81, said in a video statement from the American Civil Liberties Union, which is helping to represent her.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-02-28\/a-363-000-tax-bill-to-widow-led-to-obama-shift-in-defense-of-marriage-act.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bloomberg.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/gaycast.net\/video\/Lesbian-widows-363000-tax-bill\/player?layout=&#038;read_more=1\" width=\"420\" height=\"346\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/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>Edith Windsor [pictured] and Thea Spyer had a 40-year engagement and a two-year marriage, starting with a wedding in Canada<\/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":[195,21],"tags":[1027],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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