LGBT Legal Group Asks Supreme Court to Review DOMA Ruling

Neal Broverman

Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.

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The Boston-based Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders is asking the Supreme Court to review a federal judge's ruling from last month that declared section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.

DOMA's section 3 prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages performed in states and restricts federal benefits for such couples. GLAD wants the Supreme Court to validate last month's ruling from a federal judge in Connecticut that found section 3 unconstitutional -- the suit was brought by six married couples and a widow who live throughout New England and are denied federal benefits. Members of Congress and the Justice Department previously asked the high court to review the ruling by a federal judge in Massachusetts who struck down section 3 in two separate lawsuits.