--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams richard@... wrote:
turquoiseb:
Some of you may know or even follow the blog or Facebook
page created by George Takei (Sulu from Star Trek).
There is some question as to whether he writes *all* of
the material or finds *all* of the wonderful graphics
he forwards, but they are consistently delightful.
Here, in an opinion piece for the Washington Post, he
gets serious for once. At least as serious as he gets:
George Takei voted for Bill Clinton who signed into law
the DOMA. LoL!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-takei-a-defeat-for-doma--and-the-end-of-ick/2013/06/27/d3c986dc-dd10-11e2-9218-bc2ac7cd44e2_story.html
It's time to overturn DOMA By Bill Clinton,March 07, 2013
In 1996, I signed the Defense of Marriage Act. Although that was only 17 years
ago, it was a very different time. In no state in the union was same-sex
marriage recognized, much less available as a legal right, but some were moving
in that direction. Washington, as a result, was swirling with all manner of
possible responses, some quite draconian. As a bipartisan group of former
senators stated in their March 1 amicus brief to the Supreme Court, many
supporters of the bill known as DOMA believed that its passage would defuse a
movement to enact a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, which would
have ended the debate for a generation or more. It was under these
circumstances that DOMA came to my desk, opposed by only 81 of the 535 members
of Congress.
On March 27, DOMA will come before the Supreme Court, and the justices must
decide whether it is consistent with the principles of a nation that honors
freedom, equality and justice above all, and is therefore constitutional. 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.
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-07/opinions/37528448_1_doma-defense-of-marriage-act-marriage-equality
