http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/chelsea-and-mark-no-flash-201145
Can I get an Amen and 10 x's of Hallelujah!
It's nice to have witnessed a young girl; with the spotlight on her for many years, turn into a self thinking, smart and outspoken woman; not just for gay rights, but a broad spectrum of things.
If you remember correctly, it was her father, President Bill Clinton, who on September 21, 1996 signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act, aka DOMA. The President has come "out" and said he regrets signing into law both DOMA and Don't ask don't tell. Here's a piece from from an Aug 2009 article.
"The reason I signed DOMA was—and I said when I signed it—that I thought the question of whether gays should marry should be left up to states and to religious organizations, and if any church or other religious body wanted to recognize gay marriage, they ought to," he said. "We were attempting at the time, in a very reactionary Congress, to head off an attempt to send a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to the states. And if you look at the 11 referenda much later—in 2004, in the election—which the Republicans put on the ballot to try to get the base vote for President Bush up, I think it's obvious that something had to be done to try to keep the Republican Congress from presenting that. The president doesn't even get to veto that. The Congress can refer constitutional amendments to the states. I didn't like signing DOMA and I certainly didn't like the constraints that were put on benefits, and I've done everything I could—and I am proud to say that the State Department was the first federal department to restore benefits to gay partners in the Obama administration, and I think we are going forward in the right direction now for federal employees."
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