Thank you, Massachusetts

The state of Massachusetts just sued the U.S. government this morning over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman!!!!!

As the first state in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriages, Massachusetts state representatives filed the claim in a Boston federal court, arguing that the Defense of Marriage Act "constitutes an overreaching and discriminatory federal law."

Before the law was passed in 1996, the federal government acknowledged that defining marital status was the "exclusive prerogative of the states." Because of this federal law's definition of marriage, "same-sex couples are denied access to benefits given toheterosexual married couples, including federal income tax credits, employment benefits, retirement benefits, health insurance coverage and Social Security payments."

Hurrah for Massachusetts. If I wanted to live anywhere in the United States, it would be there!