I opposed DOMA in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying. … I know how important the issue of equal rights is to the LGBT community. I share your sense of urgency. If I am elected U.S. Senator, you can be confident that my colleagues in the Senate and the President will know my position. — 2004

My Take – Like I said in an earlier post, I don’t care if gay people want to get married.  I’m not exactly an expert in keeping a marriage together.  If I’m free to screw up a marriage, then why not anyone else?  President Obama promised for a long time to get the federal government out of the way for people who want to marry people of the same gender, and that was one of the few times I agreed with him.

Problem is, once he was in the White House, he didn’t do much for a very long time.  I haven’t seen a motion to repeal DOMA, even when he had majorities in both houses of the Congress.  He took several years to find a way to get rid of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, which I would have thought would have been at the top of his to-do list in January 2009.  He’s considered the military as a perfect laboratory for every other social experiment, why not that one?