{"id":278337,"date":"2011-02-23T17:56:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T17:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/23\/us-not-defending-gay-marriage-ban\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T17:56:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T17:56:14","slug":"us-not-defending-gay-marriage-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/23\/us-not-defending-gay-marriage-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"US not defending gay marriage ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"36.3005780347\">\n        \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>23 February 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>12:56 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The US government says it will no longer defend in the courts a law which bans the recognition of same sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>US Attorney General Eric Holder said the administration would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma).<\/p>\n<p>Doma defines marriage as &#8220;only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Until now the US has defended the law in challenges to its constitutionality. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-12560964\" title=\"US not defending gay marriage ban\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US not defending gay marriage ban<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 23 February 2011 Last updated at 12:56 ET The US government says it will no longer defend in the courts a law which bans the recognition of same sex marriage. US Attorney General Eric Holder said the administration would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma). Doma defines marriage as &#8220;only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US not defending gay marriage ban - Ghanamma.com<\/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:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/23\/us-not-defending-gay-marriage-ban\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"US not defending gay marriage ban - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"23 February 2011 Last updated at 12:56 ET The US government says it will no longer defend in the courts a law which bans the recognition of same sex marriage. 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