Unlike another candidate who just became a lifelong advocate?

P.S. Your image is broken.

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then paste the link

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/104-1996/h316

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/104-1996/h316

The 1996 Republican Party platform endorsed DOMA, referencing only Section 2 of the act: "We reject the distortion of [anti-discrimination] laws to cover sexual preference, and we endorse the Defense of Marriage Act to prevent states from being forced to recognize same-sex unions."[18] The Democratic Party platform that year did not mention DOMA or marriage.[19] In a June 1996 interview in the gay and lesbian magazine The Advocate, Clinton said, "I remain opposed to same-sex marriage. I believe marriage is an institution for the union of a man and a woman. This has been my long-standing position, and it is not being reviewed or reconsidered."[20] But he also criticized DOMA as "divisive and unnecessary."[21]

Some Democrats viewed the legislation as politically motivated rather than a response to societal developments. Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts called DOMA the "Endangered Republican Candidates Act"[22] and said it was "a mean-spirited form of legislative gay-bashing designed to inflame the public four months before the November election."[23] Kennedy joined with the Clinton White House in an attempt to pass hiring and employment protection for gays and lesbians, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), in concert with DOMA, but the effort failed in the Senate by one vote.[23]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act

While it was party loyal of Senator Kennedy to try to make DOMA something that showed a dramatic divide between Democrats and Republicans, only 14 Democratic Senators voted against DOMA, with Pryor not voting at all. (Really, Senator Pryor?) At that time 47 Senators were Democratic. So, a healthy majority of Democratic Senators voted for DOMA.

I'm flat out calling D.C. kabuki on ENDA's failing to pass the Senate by only one vote.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104&session=2&vote=00280


What a blessing to be constitutionally out of this kind of crap. Thanks again, Justice Kennedy for switching sides on this issue. I'd put money on his having at lease one gay loved one who helped him see the truth.