Apple applauds Supreme Court’s ruling that same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional

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Apple provided a statement to AllThingsD applauding the Supreme Court’s decision today in two major cases related to same-sex marriages in California:

One ruling overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, the bill passed in 1996 that ruled same-sex marriages unconstitutional. The other decision left intact a lower-court ruling that invalidated California’s Prop. 8 ban on same-sex marriage.

“Apple strongly supports marriage equality and we consider it a civil rights issue. We applaud the Supreme Court for its decisions today,” an Apple spokesman told AllThingsD in a statement.