… LGBTQ community into the public eye and gave birth to the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement. I've been proud to stand alongside the LGBTQ community for my entire adult life. In 1996, when Meg and I were married, Congress was considering the Defense of Marriage Act. and we rewrote our wedding packet on the way to the weekend, asking our attendees to write and call the White House to call on President Clinton to veto that Defense of Merit Act. (06:07–06:15)
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Asserts that Congress was considering the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.
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