Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121209:15:38:00
Of prohibitions, incest concerns and things like that. whatever the state definitions are, the federal government has always followed the state definition. if a state says theyre married, the federal government says for the purposes of benefits theyre married. in 1996, the defense of marriage act departed from that practice and said the federal government is going to intermettle in family law and say that marriage is only between one man and one woman. >> these are one of the few moments when pr...
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