On June 26, 2013, the United States Supreme Court made two significant decisions in favor of same-sex marriage. The broader of the two was the Court’s decision to strike down as unconstitutional Section Three of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). This was a federal law denying marriage benefits to same-sex couples legally wed under state law. Justice Anthony Kennedy expressed that DOMA “place[d] same-sex couples in an unstable position of being in a second-tier marriage. The differentiation demeans the couple, whose moral and sexual choices the Constitution protects, and whose relationship the state sought to dignify.”