Why The Tea Partiers Should Oppose DOMA

It took a federal judge to put two and two together. The Defense of Marriage Act was an assault on the core right of the states to define civil marriage as each sees fit; it was ... drum-roll please ... an assault on the Tenth Amendment! Money quote from the AP story:

U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro on Thursday ruled in favor of gay
couples' rights in two separate challenges to the 1996 Defense of
Marriage Act, known as DOMA.

The state had argued the law denied benefits such as...