What a difference - a look at the 1996 DOMA debate on the Hill

Courtesy of Think Progress LGBT, take a look at the sad, pathetic, hateful political points scored at the expense of the LGBT community in 1996, as DOMA was debated (and later passed). [W]hile DOMA passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities in 1996, just two Republican senators - Chuck Grassley (IA) and Orrin Hatch (UT) - appeared at yesterday's hearing, and only one (Grassley) spoke-up in its defense. The rest of the debate was dominated by Democrats, some of whom expressed regret for voting for the law... - REP. TOM COBURN (R-OK): "And there are studies to say that over 43% of all people who profess homosexuality have greater than 500 partners". - REP. BOB BARR (R-GA): "It is part of a deliberate, coldly calculated power move to confront the basic social institutions on which our country not only was founded, but has prospered, and will continue to prosper." - SEN. TRENT LOTT (R-MS): "To force upon our communities the legal recognition of same sex marriage would be social engineering beyond anything in the American experience."

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