Hillary needs to stop with her bul**hit about DOMA

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7. Amicus brief from Senators Bill Bradley, Tom Daschle and Chris Dodd, Alan Simpson

Sorry, Bernie: DOMA Really Was a Defensive Action Against a Possible Constitutional Amendment

A March 1st 2013 Supreme Court amicus brief from former Democratic Senators Bill Bradley, Tom Daschle and Chris Dodd, as well as former Republican Senator Alan Simpson. There's some good overall background on DOMA from their perspective as 1996 lawmakers if you feel like reading the whole thing, but here is the relevant section: http://www.glad.org/uploads/docs/cases/windsor-v-united-states/amicus-brief-of-former-senators-who-voted-for-doma.pdf

The statute enjoyed broad bipartisan support, but the reasons for that support varied widely. Some supported DOMA even while staunchly opposing discrimination against gays in employment, adoption, military service, and other spheres. Some believed that DOMA was necessary to allay fears that a single state’s recognition of same-sex marriage could automatically extend to all other states through the Full Faith and Credit Clause. And they believed that enacting DOMA would eliminate the possibility of a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage—an outcome that would have terminated any further debate about same-sex marriage, potentially for generations. At the same time, even for many who generally opposed sexual orientation discrimination, the traditional conception of marriage was so engrained that it was difficult to see the true nature of the discrimination DOMA wrought.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/27/1440473/-Sorry-Bernie-DOMA-Really-Was-a-Defensive-Action-Against-a-Possible-Constitutional-Amendment#