In its 2013 United States v. Windsor ruling, the Supreme Court held that
A) marriage could only be a union between a man and a woman.
B) all state and local laws prohibiting or inhibiting same-sex laws are unconstitutional.
C) the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act was invalid.
D) states could not pass any laws regulating marriage, whether with same-sex or opposite-sex couples.
E) the federal government was prohibited from providing benefits to same-sex spouses of federal employees.
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