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Bill Clinton: DOMA Unconstitutional

Hindsight Is 20/20

He signed it into law in '96.

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Bill Clinton knows even presidents aren’t always right. The former president penned a Washington Post op-ed that went online Thursday night that calls for the end of the Defense of Marriage Act, which he signed into law in 1996, defining marriage as between a man and a woman. He explains that at the time DOMA was viewed as defusing an effort to create a gay marriage ban as a constitutional amendment. “As the president who signed the act into law, I have come to believe that DOMA is contrary to those principles and, in fact, incompatible with our Constitution,” he writes, saying that, “the law is itself discriminatory.”

Read it at The Washington Post