Kerry's DOMA Flip-Flop
BoiFromTroi has an excellent post on yet another Kerry flip-flop:
That was the flip...see BFT's blog for the flop.
Despite his recent campaigning to ban gay marriage in individual states on the grounds that each state has the right to discriminate against gays as it pleases, Presidential Candidate John Kerry was unequivocal in his denouncement of the Defense of Marriage Act as Unconsititutional when writing for the Advocate in 1996:The misnamed and misguided Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is as unconstitutional and unnecessary as it is mean-spirited and malicious. The authors of the bill mistakenly claim that Congress has the authority to allow one state to ignore a legally recognized marriage in another. But the U.S. Constitution is unequivocal on this point: "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State."
Imagine the confusion if we didn’t have such a clause: A child-custody decision in California could be ignored by Illinois; a divorce concluded in Nevada could be rejected in New York. DOMA does violence to the spirit and letter of the Constitution by allowing the states to divide.
Unconstitutional. Unnecessary. Premature. Presumptuous.
That was the flip...see BFT's blog for the flop.
Posted by KipEsquire on
11 August 2004
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