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DOMA is dying...

...but not dead yet.

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Within 1/2 hour Takei had over 100,000 likes on announcing the Supremes decision re DOMA.

The power of the internet... which is well-known and feared by Jordan and many other countries around the world as they attempt to limit access to information.

That's the issue with Snowden and leaks in general. When is it acceptable, advisable or not?

In a country that is less fearful, like Costa Rica, there's a bit more transparency. Here in the U.S., the people, not just the government, want security, even if it means trumping their own freedom.

In the case of DOMA... succinctly, Justice Kennedy made it an issue of basic human rights that trumped Congress' intrusion into the states attempt to extend dignity to a group that is oft maligned.

DOMA isn't totally dead though. States can still reject the legal marriage license of another state. It'll be ugly until this is resolved.

And... the LGBT community may experience increase hatred against it as a community as well as individually.

Why? Fear... just one answer. Absolutism (we are absolutely right and you are absolutely wrong ...credo of many religious conservatives) would be another.

But truly? No one objects when a person is invisible and knows one's place.

Ask the African American population. As long as they kept their mouths shut they were fine. As soon as they spoke up for their rights they were wrong.

And so it goes. Could be a rough few years for some folks.

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