"You like the 10th Amendment? I'll give you the 10th Amendment!"

Judge declares US gay marriage ban is unconstitutional. July 8,2010
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/07/judge_declares_3.html

The Tenth Amendment:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."


       Thanks to Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders ,attorney general Martha Coakley, and the tenth amendment, the Defense of Marriage law has been named unconstitutional. The 1996 federal law defines marriage as a union exclusively between a man and a woman. Martha Coakley says that it "violates the Constitution by interfering with the state’s authority to define and regulate the marital status of its residents." Apparently the judge agrees with her argument because the law has been struck down.
      This is an example of the Tenth Amendment because, because of the federal law, states werent able to give the benefits that heterosexual couples have to same sex couples, and under the constitution, they have the right to do so.
       In my opinion, every state should legalize gay marriage and they should have the same benefits that straight couples have. Love is love. They cant help who they fall in love with just like straight couples cant help who they fall in love with. I think this was a big step to the U.S accepting gay marriage more just as they did with interracial marriage(which was mentioned in the article).