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 The rest of us activists viewed it as an #outdated, #heteronormative trap we wanted nothing to do Marriage equality much like don't ask don't tell
Weren't part of the discussion or something we cared about at the time in terms of a road map forward. What seemed at the time like a throwaway vote for a lot of people as it had to do with something that didn't exist isn't offensive it was part of incremental progress. Cont
So to attack a man who has been consistently our fiercest advocates, over a vote from 30 years ago that NO ONE at the time cared about, we weren't thrilled we understood how politically it had to happen. Marriage equality was literally not on anyone's radar cont
Learn the history and context before you bash one of our greatest allies and advocates consistently over years and years. Bernie had the luxury of voting for a lot of things I agree with that as a politician you simply couldn't on the national stage at that point. Live in reality
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