Hillary Clinton defended her support for the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a bill signed by President Bill Clinton which defined marriage at the federal level as being between a man and a woman, claiming that it was a “defensive action” against a Republican-led push against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage altogether.
“On Defense of Marriage, I think what my husband believed — and there was certainly evidence to support it — is that there was enough political momentum to amend the Constitution of the United States of America, and that there had to be some way to stop that,” Clinton said during an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Friday.
Clinton’s position on gay marriage has shifted dramatically over the past two decades, raising questions over what she truly thinks about the issue. And with her comments Friday, she indicated that her…
