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>> CATHERINE: SEX COUPLES
HAVE A SECOND REASON TO
CHEER:
DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT.
TODAY'S DECISION MEANS
SAME=SEX MARRIED COUPLES
CAN FILE JOINT TAX RETURNS,
AND ENJOY OTHER BENEFITS,
SUCH AS COMMISSARY
PRIVILEGES IN THE MILITARY.
>> CATHERINE: IT ALSO
PROVIDED THE FINAL
BITTERSWEET CHAPTER IN A 42
YEAR LOVE STORY.
>> SPEYER FOR MORE THAN FOUR
DECADES IN LOVE AND JOY AND
SICKNESS AND HEALTH TILL
DEATH DID US PART."
EDITH WINDSOR IS THE WOMAN
BEHIND THE LEGAL CHALLENGE.
>> CATHERINE: SHE AND SPYER
BEGAN LIVING TOGETHER IN
1965,
>> CATHERINE: TEN YEARS
LATER SPYER WAS DIAGNOSED
WITH MULTIPLE SCELEROSIS
WINDSOR TOOK EARLY
RETIREMENT TO BECOME HER
FULLTIME CAREGIVER.
SPYER'S HEALTH CONTINUED TO
DETERIORATE
SIX YEAR AGO THEY WENT TO
TORONTO, TO BE MARRIED BY
CANADA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY
JUDGE.
>> CATHERINE: SPYER DIED IN
2009, AND WINDSOR LEARNED.
>>IN THE EYES OF MY
GOVERNMENT THE WOMAN I HAD
LOVED AND CARED FOR AND
SHARED MY LIFE WITH WAS NOT
MY LEGAL SPOUSE BUT WAS
CONSIDERED TO BE A STRANGER
WITH NO RELATIONSHIP TO ME
>> CATHERINE: THE I=R=S
ORDERED HER TO PAY
350=THOUSAND DOLLARS IN
INHERITANCE TAXES. TODAY
PRESIDENT OBAMA CALLED TO
CONGRATULATE HER FROM AIR
FORCE ONE, CALLING DOMA
"DISCRIMINATION ENSHRINED
IN LAW."
>> REPORTER: INTERESTING TO
NOTE THAT IT WAS PRESIDENT
CLINTON ASSIGN THE LAW BACK
IN 1996 A GREAT STEP FOR
WITH CASH THAT MARRIAGE
EQUALITY. BY OVERTURNINGBY
OVERTURNING THE DEFENSE OF
MARRIAGE ACT, THE COURT
RECOGNIZED THAT
DISCRIMINATION TOWARDS ANY