Editing Federal Marriage Amendment (section)

===Federal statutes regulating marriage===
Although individual U.S. states have the primary regulatory power with regard to marriage, the [[United States Congress]] has occasionally regulated marriage. The 1862 [[Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act]], which made bigamy a punishable federal offense in U.S. territories, was followed by a series of federal laws designed to end the practice of polygamy. In 1996 as a reaction to a state level judicial ruling prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying that may violate Hawaii's constitutional equal protection clause (Baehr v. Miike, 80 Hawai`i 341), Congress passed the [[Defense of Marriage Act]] (DOMA), section 3 of which defined marriage as a legal union of one man and one woman for the purpose of interpreting federal law. Under DOMA section 3, the federal government did not recognize same-sex marriages, even if those unions were recognized by state law. For example, members of a same-sex couple legally married in Massachusetts could not file joint [[Income tax in the United States|federal income tax returns]] even if they filed joint [[State income tax|state income tax returns]]. DOMA section 3 was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in ''[[United States v. Windsor]]'' on June 26, 2013 and repealed by the [[Respect for Marriage Act]] on December 13, 2022.