Companies Sign Brief Urging Supreme Court to Outlaw DOMA

On Wednesday, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft joined with hundreds of other companies to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).  

278 employers signed on to a friend -of-the-court brief before argument in the high court.  The brief they signed says,"'DOMA forces the businesses to administer dual systems of benefits and payroll, and imposes on them the cost of the workarounds necessary to protect married colleagues.'"

Only section 3 of DOMA is being challenged before the Supreme Court.  Section 3 defines "marriage" as a legal union between one man and one woman as husband or wife, and defines "spouse" as a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or wife.  

See Companies Ask Court to Outlaw DOMA, UPI.com, Feb. 27, 2013.