Clinton defends description of DOMA’s history

Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will talk about the origin of the Defense of Marriage Act, but wants voters to remember that was then and this is now. Yesterday, 6 November, she and two other candidates, Senator Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, participated in a forum sponsored by MSNBC.

The event was held at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Last month, the former secretary of state told Rachel Maddow that in the 1990s, then President Bill Clinton signed DOMA to block Republicans from coming up with more stringent laws; DOMA prevented the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages, even if the unions were honored by the states.

‘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 last month.