Hillary Clinton is calling it a defensive action.
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In a Friday appearance on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC, Hillary Clinton said there was enough momentum in 1996 to amend the Constitution. He voted against the legislation, which passed the lower chamber rather easily 342-67.
Now today, a few are trying to rewrite history by saying that they voted for one anti-gay law to stop something worse. That’s not the case.
Sanders, who voted against DOMA, remembered it differently.
DOMA, which was signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1996, defined marriage as between one man and one woman.
Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, has shifted her position on gay marriage over the years, the Daily Caller reports, including supporting it after the Supreme Court decision in June.
“I said I would do it, and I did it because if there is anything new, which is unlikely after the eight prior investigations that have been held, we should know about it because the point is, what are we going to do to both honor the people that we lost and try to make sure this doesn’t happen again?” Today, they support it by 60 to 37 percent. “And I will not support it tomorrow”.
For her part, Clinton has been indirectly taking swipes too with a reference to how Sanders talked at the debate about “shouting” to stop gun violence. “How he was unelectable. But that was the issue and I think everybody at the time knew what was going on”. The former secretary of state also said that, during her time in President Barack Obama’s cabinet, Republicans would say in private that the administration was right but that they could not concur in public for political reasons.
But Sanders wasn’t the only candidate who invoked LGBT rights on stage at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner. “It was playing off fears of a lot of Americans. The only “defensive posture” was for their personal politics not LGBT”, activist David Mixner said on Twitter.
Iowa is the first state in the presidential primary.
There are so many more issues than just the LGBT ones, but if you had to choose between Sanders and Clinton based on the LGBT issues, who would you vote for? “I have learned how to get things done. I am clear about my principles”.
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Under a very straightforward headline, “President Clinton Is Wrong About the History of DOMA”, Birch wrote definitively for AmericaBlog that, “In 1996, I was President of the Human Rights Campaign, and there was no real threat of a Federal Marriage Amendment”.
