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HAPPENING NOW: 11th Cir Judge Bill Pryor opens Federalist Society conference in DC by mocking @SenWhitehouse and poking fun at claims that Leonard Leo is at center of a dark money web Image
Not totally sure why @RuthMarcus has been left out but Pryor is still going
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Whoever started this #doma bullshit about @JoeBiden forgets history. DOMA was a fear mongering ploy of the right after Clinton's first Q and A when a student asked him about the military ban.

Clinton didn't think twice and said he would lift it. Caught everyone off guard
The real enemies of civil rights and equal protection threwup a smoke screen.

If you recall at the time there were, literally only three people interested in marriage equality. Andrew Sullivan, Evan Wolfson and one other dude. TOTAL. Cont
Andrew had yet to write the call to arms that made the case for marriage equality on the cover of the New Republic. The rest of us activists viewed it as an #outdated, #heteronormative trap we wanted nothing to do Marriage equality much like don't ask don't tell
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So this story is still bugging me.
It is 1963 in Wilmington, DE and it is broad daylight in the black side of town where Biden was a lifeguard and he saw two, one presumes black, men kissing and his Catholic dad says this?
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Homophobia was rife in my Catholic school and it was much later than Biden's story and not Delaware.
In 1987 I got punched in the face in my neighborhood in Philadelphia as did my then partner when we kissed each other and it was night and we were walking home from the El.
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Biden told this story as an explanation for what he claims was his life-long approval of and support for gay people. But that is a really revisionist version since Biden voted for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
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