The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is a discriminatory piece of federal legislation which harms LGBT American citizens. 

DOMA explicitly prohibits the Federal Government and all federal agencies from extending any federal marriage-based benefits, privileges and rights to same-sex couples. Some examples include the filing of joint income tax returns, pension benefits, visitation of hospitalized spouses who are ill and dying, inheritance and legal standing rights granted to opposite-sex couples.

We all listened to the presidential debates, and we all heard Joe Biden say the following, “Do I support granting same-sex benefits? Absolutely positively. Look, in an Obama-Biden administration, there will be absolutely no distinction from a constitutional standpoint or a legal standpoint between a same-sex and a heterosexual couple. . . "

The time has come to act.  Urge your representative to repeal DOMA immediately.