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Bill Clinton Now Asking Supreme Court to Overturn Marriage Legislation He Signed into Law

Mar. 8, 2013 5:41am Jonathon M. Seidl

Bill Clinton Says Supreme Court Should Overturn Defense of Marriage Act

Former President Bill Clinton delivers is keynote address at a fundraising dinner for the Wendell Ford Government Center at the RiverPark Center in Owensboro, Ky., Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Credit: AP

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is calling on the Supreme Court to overturn a law he signed that bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages.

Clinton says the Defense of Marriage Act is incompatible with the Constitution. He says he signed the law in 1996 to avoid legislation that would have been even worse for gays.

Clinton writes in a Washington Post op-ed that American society has changed. He says he now realizes the law discriminates against gays and provides an excuse for others to discriminate, too.

”In 1996, I signed the Defense of Marriage Act. Although that was only 17 years ago, it was a very different time,” he begins.

“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 later. Then he adds:

When I signed the bill, I included a statement with the admonition that “enactment of this legislation should not, despite the fierce and at times divisive rhetoric surrounding it, be understood to provide an excuse for discrimination.” Reading those words today, I know now that, even worse than providing an excuse for discrimination, the law is itself discriminatory. It should be overturned.

The Obama administration has stopped defending the law in court, and the Supreme Court is expected to take up a challenge to it later this month.

Separately, the high court is also considering whether California’s gay marriage ban should stand.

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sbenard
Posted on March 9, 2013 at 11:51am
This is a priori proof of how decadent and degraded out civilization has become in a matter of a few short years! Stand back for the lightning strike!

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ranchdog
Posted on March 9, 2013 at 11:35am
All Bill has is drinking and whoring. Now he wants to be gay?

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- tyuchic
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 1:25pm
  bill isn’t much of a drinker. tooting, whoring, and bjs are what he’s about, which might explain the gay thingy.
  
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G-WHIZ
Posted on March 9, 2013 at 9:14am
Leave it to the PROGS to take the easy-UNCONSTITUTIONAL way out USING THE COURT-SYSTEM!! OH THE POOR WOOSIES [I WANIT NOW!!!!]-CROWD!!…have NEVER don anything the right way…IT’SA TOO HARD!! The PROG-O-CRATS ALWAYS HAVE USED THE COURTS TO GO-ROUND THE CONSTITUTION!!

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FLOWNOVERandFORGOTTEN
Posted on March 9, 2013 at 2:20am
This is great political theater. Bill is on the attack hoping to clear a path for Hilary in 2016. I’d buy the Pay Per VIew Obama Clinton grudge match. Howerver, that darn Bengazi thing isn’t going away. Hillary has shown herself to be unfit for leadership and God willling the truth will come out and she won’t even bother to run.

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J3player
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:37pm
The sodomites are coming out of the closet. They want all our kids to become one on them. Sticky sticky they are.

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Patriot72
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 1:52pm
Pander…pander…pander.

Regardless of where someone falls on the gay marriage issue, for goodness’ sake if you have principlese stick to them. If you change, at least try to make it less obvious that it’s a shamelss pitch for votes.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 1:04pm
Well- if he said “I was flat out wrong” he might get an ear from me. But since he has to use clintonese and say “i have come to believe due to something else i didn’t care about and understand before, which i took an oath to uphold btw, but which i now am enlightened as to it’s new meaning because i have evolved” – not so much.

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steveh931
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 12:56pm
All States should call for a Constitutional Convention and lay gay marriage and abortion to rest.

Constitution of the United States, Article V.

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when Ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the year One Thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

The Senate and the House must be forced by State Governments to Amend the Constitution to show the true balance of Power, which is of course, The People.

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Cate
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 12:35pm
Another Pres. “Hasbeen” bites the dust because of senility and love of the camera.

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308btsp
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 12:00pm
So were you an ignorant, low-information, manipulating, intern adulterator back then, or now? Fade away your time in the light is long over, and so is your wife.

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Rock_Moninoff
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:49am
Come on Bill, you jackass, give us that State Funeral you promised so long ago. Die, Barney, Die!!

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EricStoner
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:48am
Same reason he pardoned Puerto Rican and Jewish terrorist right before they set up Hillary to run for Senate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_pardon_controversy This is prep work for 2016, nothing more. Don’t look for any moral or logical reason, pure calculation and no, he does not care a moment about gay people. They just use them to stay in office. Sound familiar?

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RAMJR
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:05am
Why would this be such a big story? A man who does not even live by the Biblical vows of his own marriage, had multiple adulterous affairs and even accused of rape…yet touted by a party that even boo’s God, let alone wants Him anywhere in their platform.
A man who lied, under the oath of God and in humanistic court of law, let alone governmental…yet, once again, touted by so many.
His stripes never changed, and his values reflect who he is, let alone that of his wife. remember, this is a couple that would even sellout the bedrooms our founding fathers slept in.
Once again, this is no surprise, it was a foot in the door he installed in his term as President.

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Hezikiah7
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:59am
Bill Clinton makes statements that are timed and that will benefit him and his wife politically. He taught our teenagers that oral sex was O. K. He committed adultery with “that woman” in of all places, the Oval Office. His values aren’t evolving – he has always been a liar and a cheat and his new announcement on gay marriage has come at a time when he can get his face and headline in the newspapers. Someday that rascal’s sins will catch up with him.

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DZ-015
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:52am
Hillary probably threatened to lose the key to Bill’s lockbox.

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RightMeansRight2
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:15am
I can’t believe this irrelevant punk is still flopping his jaws at the American public. Why do people listen to this waste of human bio-mass?? He is still the same liar he’s always been, and is too much like hussein in that he feeds on adulation. I know of NO reason to fawn over this clown, and certainly no reason to applaud hussein. They are both punks with lifetime Secret Service agents at their sides. They just cannot stop ripping off the American taxpayers. Secret Service for life???….that is a waste of my money and they do NOT deserve it. F ‘em both.

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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:26am
  Bill, times may change, Values DON’T……..I think Bill played the leading role in “Deliverance” and liked it.
  
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garbagecanlogic
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:03am
In other words – hillary is gonna need the gay, the transexuals etc votes in “16. Just come out and say it like a man billy – oooooops, guess you have to become a man first.

Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.

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- Sawdy19
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:44am
  In other words – hillary is gonna need the gay, the transexuals etc votes in “16.
  
  Your comment is spot on. Bill’s change of heart is no different than Obama’s “evolved” stance on gay marriage. These politicians have no standards and no convictions. They will say anything and change their position at the drop of a hat in order to secure your vote. I may be gay but, I’m certainly not stupid.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 5:16pm
  You got that one right, it’s all about 2016. That’s 4 years to drag out all the horrible things that couple have been implicated in from Arkansas to D.C. Too many things to be coincidental, too many bodies. Enough to make you wonder, what if? It’s going all the way back to the things she supported while in college.
  
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jungle J
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:59am
how many other mistakes did you make then?

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The American
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:50am
Bill, you are no longer president, or relevant, please just go away and leave us in peace, and take your wife with you!

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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:37am
Ok, Bill Clinton, why would you continue to self-destruct your walk of life?

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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 6:22pm
  It’s kinda fun to look on google and see how many people close to the Clinton’s lost their lives. Time wears on, but memories are alive forever. Several Hwy. Patrol guys and one of the wives who were close to Bill, and Ron Brown & a group lost in a plane crash??? Vince Foster who’s papers were found in Hillery’s office much later after she went through everything to see if she was implicated.
  
  Yep, power changes people who didn’t have much faith to start out with in the beginning. You know, kinda like getting a camel through the eye of a needle? “God O God, why have you forsaken me?”
  
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Hawk69
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:24am
I don’t think there is such a thing as a conservative or moderate democrat, some just don’t feel free to express their true socialist leanings, especially in the southern states. These liberal continue their march towards socialism.

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13th Imam
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:01am
We ALL saw how pro-marriage BJ Clinton was. A prerequisite to be a DEMOCRAT politician is the ability to lie convincingly and to change positions on a dime(or three cents as its now worth)

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Sargeking
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:54am
No surprise here except that he didn’t come out earlier on his true agenda.

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