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I reblogged this postREPEAL DOMA
Bill Clinton supports the repeal of the abhorrently-titled DOMA at this point, and while the way he discusses his reasons for signing it in the first place strike me as the worst kind of Clinton-speak, (i.e. he allowed states to deny basic human rights to people for ALL THE RIGHT REASONS AND I PROMISE I FEEL BAD ABOUT IT, and you just know that when same-sex marriage rights are no longer denied in most states, he is totally going to take credit for it and even if it’s true, like, give it a rest) it feels like a pretty important step in the direction of it being repealed. I can’t imagine a more discriminatory federal law and I have no idea how its passage was Constitutional, i.e., in what way is it not completely in violation of the full faith and credit clause and therefore requiring the same process as a Constitutional Amendment?
It is scary to think of a Constitutional Amendment to limit the definition of marriage, and the repeal of DOMA would quite likely spark an even further push for it, but if they couldn’t get it done a few years ago, I just don’t see it happening now.
If the fact that Bill “20 YEAR-OLD INTERN FACE FUCKING” Clinton signed something called The Defense Of Marriage Act doesn’t make it an obscene joke, I don’t know what would.
I’d love to see some investigative journalism done on the DOMA supporters to see how many of them had affairs (or, like Newt Gingrinch and John McCain, simply divorced their spouses when they were sick [Gingrinch] or after they had been in horrible accidents and no longer “looked the part” [McCain]).
