As Justice Kennedy said, 1100 statutes, and it affects every area of life. And so you would be -- really diminishing what the state has said is marriage. You are saying, no, state said two kinds of marriages. The full marriage and then this sort of skim milk marriage.
Justice Ginsburg emphasizes the impact of DOMA on state definitions of marriage.
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