Defense of Marriage Act

Posted by Ayanna Robinson in American Government - Laufenberg on Friday, November 4, 2011 at 2:02 pm

· The beginning of this assignment started off fairly easily. We were tasked with explaining the history behind a bill of our choice. Any bill. But of course, Lauf suggested it would be easier on us to choose one linked to our lobbying topic. Knowing gay rights were a high profile topic and that they wouldn't hide any information I thought it was in my best interest to link my two topics. The first bill I found when I did research on gay rights was the Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA.

The process wasn’t as hard as I seemed to make it in the bginning. Because of the other benchmarks I had been assigned I got a late start on the bill project but when we had to meet our first deadline (initial research) I found out quickly just how easy it was to find information about my bill. It was controversial, so there was no lack of info to be found.

It was an interesting story to tell, from inception to creation, but there was more to it than just the history. Originally I wanted to do a documentary but as I gathered more and more information, I kept imagining things that I wanted my presentation to include that I simply couldn’t show in a documentary. I settled on a prezi because it’s a program I work well with and can make even the simplest statements engaging to the viewer.

In the end I think my project turned out fairly well. Its far from boring and I put into the story than just the history. I would only change the outcome of it if I had more time. Given the right amount of time I would do something like a cross between prezi and documentary which is what I had planned in the beginning.

References

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/06/29/lgbt-pride-month-white-house

http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2010/07/federal-court-rules-doma-viola.html

http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=107807

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/04/boehner-launches-effort-defend-gay-marriage-ban/

http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/23/attorney-general-declares-doma-unconstitutional/

http://web.archive.org/web/20050208184130/http://www.advocate.com/html/stories/824/824_clinton_710.asp

http://www.aegis.com/News/WB/2004/WB040631.html

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1996/roll316.xml

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/02/gay-marriage.html

http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=16430

http://www.lectlaw.com/files/leg23.htm