![]() ![]() On 6 June, barely a month after the president’s announcement, Judge Barbara Jones of the southern district of New York ruled in favor of Edith Windsor, whose case against Doma focused on the estate taxes she was forced to pay after the death of her wife, Thea Spyer, a burden a straight widow would have avoided. ![]() “It doesn’t make sense to them,” Obama said, adding: “That’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.” His daughters, Malia and Sasha, had friends who were the children of same-sex couples, and it had never occurred to them that their friends’ parents would be treated differently. Obama said that even the Republican college students he had met were “very clear” about sexual orientation: “They believe in equality.” He also suggested the benefits of a presidential unit that included a brilliant wife and two precocious children.
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