Ralph Reed

This afternoon I watched TV for a few minutes as Ralph Reed discussed Justice Anthony Kennedy's view of DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act).  Reed, a human penis sheath by training, pointed out what Kennedy's opinion had meant, and Reed was right for once. Kennedy had written (in my words) that the sole purpose of DOMA, when passed, was to practice bigotry at the expense of gay and lesbian Americans. If that was true, Reed insisted, it meant that Joe Biden and Bill Clinton, who had supported DOMA,  had acted as bigots.  Fact.  

I might put it a slightly different way. DOMA was passed by people who are still bigots (zombies like Reed) and by thoughtless people who considered it good politics at the time to cater to bigots (like Clinton and Biden). Clinton and Biden later repudiated the support they had once given bigotry and joined strongly the effort to make things right. That's a good thing, of course.