The 1996 Defense of Marriage Act

The 1996 Defense of Marriage Act

A) authorized states to grant marital rights to a same-sex couple that had been granted these rights by another state.
B) authorized states to deny marital rights to a same-sex couple that had been granted these rights by another state.
C) invalidated, through federal legislation, the marriages of same-sex couples that had become married in states that allow same-sex unions.
D) established a timeline by which all states must legally allow same-sex marriages.
E) invalided state laws that had mandated that marriage be defined only as a union between a man and a woman.