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- American Bar Association - American Civil Liberties Union - Association of American Law Schools - Black Stripe - Boston Queer Asian Pacific Alliance - Community United Against Violence - Deaf Queer Resource Center - Fenway Community Health Center - Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders - Gender Public Advocacy Coalition - Human Rights Campaign - International Association of Lesbian & Gay Judges - International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Comm. - International Lesbian & Gay Association - Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund - Massachusetts Chapter of Gender Education & Advocacy - Massachusetts Lesbian & Gay Bar Association - National Center for Lesbian Rights - National Gay & Lesbian Task Force - National Latina/o LGBT Organization - National Lesbian & Gay Law Association - Servicemembers Legal Defense Network	TEXT OF PROPOSED FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission by the Congress: Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the Constitution of any State, nor State or Federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups. FEDERAL DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT (DOMA) 28 United States Code § 1738C. Certain acts, records, and proceedings and the effect thereof No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.