doma
doma — 名詞
1. a US federal law from 1996. It said that, for the national government, marriage
婚姻捍衛法
美國1996年通過的聯邦婚姻定義法
a US federal law from 1996. It said that, for the national government, marriage could only be between a man and a woman. The Supreme Court later ruled parts of it invalid, and the law is no longer in use.
Congress passed DOMA in 1996, limiting federal marriage benefits to opposite-sex couples.
美國國會於1996年通過 DOMA，將聯邦婚姻福利限制在異性伴侶之間。
abbreviation used with no article; functions as a proper noun
Under DOMA, government agencies refused to recognize same-sex marriages from states where they were legal.
在 DOMA 的規範下，政府機關拒絕承認某些州合法登記的同性婚姻。
The Supreme Court declared a central part of DOMA unconstitutional in the 2013 Windsor case.
最高法院在2013年的 Windsor 案中判定 DOMA 的核心條款違憲。
passive: was declared unconstitutional
Activists like Devika and Trang filed lawsuits and spoke out against DOMA for years before the law was struck down.
Devika 和 Trang 等倡議人士多年來對 DOMA 提起訴訟並公開反對，直到該法被宣告無效。
collocation: filed lawsuits against; spoke out against
Law professor Evelyn Chen argues that DOMA created unfair rules for same-sex couples under federal benefits law.
法學教授 Evelyn Chen 認為，DOMA 對聯邦福利制度中的同性伴侶制定了不公平的規則。
argues that [clause]; passive sense: the law created conditions
用法筆記
DOMA is always written in capital letters. It can be used with or without the article 'the' (DOMA was passed / the DOMA era). The law was enacted in 1996 and effectively ended after the Supreme Court rulings in United States v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015).