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Unit1 For over a decade, the issue of same-sex marriage has been a flashpoint in American politics, setting off waves of competing legislation, lawsuits and ballot initiatives to either legalize or ban the practice and causing rifts within religious groups. 十多年来，同性婚姻已经成为美国政坛的聚焦热点，究竟该使其合法化，还是明令禁止，这掀起了美国立法、诉讼、以及公民投票的争论浪潮，并在宗教团体中引起了强烈分歧。 2.In September 1996, the United States Congress, approving what was called the “Defense of Marriage Act,”voted overwhelmingly to deny Federal benefits to married people of the same sex and to permit states to ignore such marriages sanctioned in other states .