Senator Leahy Seems To Think It's Time To Call DOMA A Moving Van - Lez Get Real
Topix Gay News Jul 14 09
The Defense of Marriage Act needs to go, or so says Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy. In an interview given to Vermont Public Radio's Ross Sneyd. Sixteen years ago, Senator Leahy voted for DOMA, but he says that today he would not...The largest reason that Senator Leahy feels that the time has come to repeal DOMA largely has to do with the wave of six states which have now legalized same-sex marriage rights, and that this move by the states largely renders DOMA unnecessary.
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