2. State judicial interpretations of super-DOMAs
Michigan State-Court action
Wisconsin State-Court action
Understanding the lack of further State-Court super-DOMA [Defense of Marriage Act] litigation
3. The effects of super-DOMAs on same-sex couples
The initial shock : personal devastation and isolation
Super-DOMAs as impediments to change
The limitations of legal paperwork
Employment discrimination
Public hazing when changing names
Alienation from family, friends, and associates
Fear, insecurity, and emotional loss
Wisconsin's Domestic-Partner Registry as a rights touchstone
Inability to divorce or otherwise access legal remedies
4. The effects of super-DOMAs on families with children being raised by same-sex couples
The value of having two legal parents raising children in households headed by same-sex couples
The added costs of raising children in LGBT families
The message to the children
Marrying out of state to solidify and clarify intrafamily relationships
When parents were separated
Other challenges for same-sex couples raising children
5. Super-DOMAs and LGBT migration: fight or flight?
An estimate of LGBT emigrants from super-DOMA states
Other relevant migrations
Knowledge and appreciation of the threat to well-being
Loyalty to country or state
An expectation of legal or political redemption
The impact of traditionally gendered relationship roles
Internalized homophobic social stigma
The ability to pass as members of the majority or otherwise play the system
Same-sex couples who left super-DOMA stats partially or temporarily
Same-sex couples who did emigrate permanently
Super-DOMA effects on immigration into super-DOMA states
6. How the federal courts rescued same-sex couples and their families
The impact of lower federal courts
The lower federal courts' lopsided interpretations of Windsor
the impacts of good fortune and political party
The importance of precedent
Justice Scalia as a double agent
The alternative to judicial action : the Roberts-Scalia-Alito thesis of waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the democratic process
did super-DOMAs in fact defend and protect marriage?
The economic losses to super-DOMA states
Sponsor motivations for super-DOMAs : bigotry or not?
Appendix A. The texts of super-DOMAs.
