My partner is american and I am german. we are living in exile in the UK. We would love to go back to the US and settle finally.
We know each other since 2007 and fell in love back then. we went to germany to stay together in a civil union. since then we are waiting to go back to the US.
so many families are apart or living in exile because of the DOMA, and it is not just a same sex binational problem, it is a human rights problem.
We want to be treated equal as any other married couple!!!!

Every American should be able to marry the person they love. Yet in 1996, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act codified the discriminatory notion that marriage is only between a man and a woman. DOMA denies same-sex couples the basic privileges enjoyed by straight couples, and prevents state-approved legal marriages from being recognized across the country.

This is wrong. If we are to achieve full marriage equality for all, Congress must repeal DOMA now.

A couple of months ago, President Obama ordered the Justice Department to stop defending DOMA in federal court. This is a huge step, but the fact is that as long as DOMA remains on the books it will continue to be enforced until Congress repeals it legislatively.

Thank you so much