<span style="font-size: larger;">POLL OVERVIEW<br />
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The Obama administration appears to be attempting to influence the U.S. Supreme Court by filing a brief weeks&nbsp; before the Supreme Court will consider the issue of same sex marriage by saying the &quot;Defense of marriage Act</span><span style="font-size: larger;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: larger;">, as passed by congress, &ldquo;violates the fundamental constitutional guarantee of equal protection.&rdquo;<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: larger;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: larger;">The law denies to tens of thousands of same-sex couples who are legally married under state law an array of important federal benefits that are available to legally married opposite-sex couples,</span><span style="font-size: larger;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: larger;"> the brief added.<br />
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President Obama has ordered his administration not to defend the law, and announced he supported same-sex marriage during last year&rsquo;s presidential campaign.<br />
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments next month on the case of Edith Windsor, who was forced to pay taxes on the estate of her deceased partner, Thea Spyer. <br />
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The couple had married in Canada, and their marriage was recognized in their home state of New York at the time Spyer died in 2009. But Windsor was forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in estate taxes that would not have been required if her deceased spouse had been a man. <br />
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House Republicans have taken up the defense of DOMA, which overwhelmingly passed Congress in 1996 and was signed by former President Clinton. <br />
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Congressional Democrats are currently pushing measures that would repeal DOMA, in addition to groups' legal efforts to have the law ruled unconstitutional. <br />
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The Supreme Court is also scheduled to hear arguments about California's Proposition 8, a ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage approved in 2008.<br />
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&nbsp;NEW POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Should Congress pass legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act to make same sex marriage legal?<br />
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