  The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS and the
Department of Health and Human Services put out press releases
today announcing they’ll be recognizing same-sex marriage even
in states that define marriage as the union of a man and a
woman.   The Obama Administration’s actions today go beyond the
scope of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Windsor decision. Justice
Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in that decision clearly
states that marriage law is the purview of the states: “[T]he
definition and regulation of marriage has been treated as being
within the authority and realm of the separate States.” The
Obama Administration has chosen not to respect state policy on
this and is further eroding the meaning of marriage.  This of
course highlights one reason why the federal definition of
marriage contained in Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act
(DOMA) was necessary and why it was a bad decision for the
Supreme Court to strike that section. Just as the states have
constitutional authority to make state poli