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What the Supreme Court Can Learn From Ted Cruz<\/b>
\nIn what appears to be a new annual tradition<\/a>, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is celebrating the week leading up to Valentine’s Day by reintroducing a bill<\/a> that would penalize married same-sex<\/a> couples<\/a> who move to his home state or any other state that does not recognize same-sex<\/a> marriages for state purposes.<\/p>\n

Cruz’s bill<\/a> would require federal authorities to treat as single any same-sex<\/a> spouse living in any of the 13 such states, thus disqualifying them from 1,000 different marriage-related benefits in areas ranging from Social Security to federal taxes to copyright to veterans’ benefits<\/a>. Most cruelly, if a gay<\/a> woman<\/a> in, say, Texas were to marry someone from another country, Cruz’s bill would require her to pick up and move to a state that recognizes same-sex<\/a> marriage in order for her wife or stepchildren to immigrate to the United States.<\/p>\n

As a Canadian-born U.S. citizen<\/a>, Sen. Cruz should be intimately aware of how important family status is under U.S. immigration and nationality law. In fact, the vast majority<\/a> of legal immigrants to the United States qualify on the basis of family relationships.<\/p>\n

Sen. Cruz claims<\/a> to be concerned that federal recognition of same-sex<\/a> marriages is interfering with each state’s right to define marriage for itself, but clearly, his real problem is with a federal definition of marriage that he personally dislikes.<\/p>\n

I say this because the anti-gay<\/a> definition of marriage in the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) required federal officials to ignore same-sex<\/a> marriages even in states where they were celebrated, yet Cruz never had a problem with this apparent infringement on states’ rights before the U.S. Supreme Court gutted DOMA in United States v. Windsor<\/em><\/a>. In fact, he once defended DOMA against “specious” attacks citing states’ rights<\/a>. Now just such an argument is so important to him that he’d force Edie Windsor (the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case) to pay $363,053 more in federal estate taxes if she were to move from New York to Texas, and any gay<\/a> Texan who marries a Spaniard to move to a state like Virginia if they want to live<\/a> together.<\/p>\n

The meaning of “equal protection” under the U.S. Constitution is highly disputed in general. Yet the idea that a U.S. citizen should have to migrate to another state in order to live<\/a> together with his husband and children seems to be an example of what Justice Kennedy might call<\/a> “a denial of equal protection of the laws in the most literal sense.”<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Sen. Cruz’s “State Marriage Defense Act” is unlikely to become law anytime soon. Yet it is a good example of the kind of chaotic reaction the U.S. Supreme Court eventually could unleash if it upheld anti-gay<\/a> state marriage laws in the case it will hear later this term<\/a>. Justice Kennedy and Justice Roberts, are you listening?<\/p>\n

www.huffingtonpost.com\/scott-titshaw\/what-the-supreme-court-ca_b_6669144.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What the Supreme Court Can Learn From Ted Cruz In what appears to be a new annual tradition, U.S. Sen. 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