Clinton's Take On Gay Marriage Today

Bill Clinton's Strange Denial
Former US president Bill Clinton grimaces as he speaks during the Goed Geld Gala (''Good Money Gala''), organized by a Dutch charity lottery, at the royal Concert building in Amsterdam, on February 13, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ANP/ ROBIN UTRECHT netherlands out (Photo credit should read ROBIN UTRECHT/AFP/Getty Images)
Former US president Bill Clinton grimaces as he speaks during the Goed Geld Gala (''Good Money Gala''), organized by a Dutch charity lottery, at the royal Concert building in Amsterdam, on February 13, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ANP/ ROBIN UTRECHT netherlands out (Photo credit should read ROBIN UTRECHT/AFP/Getty Images)

I wrote in No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner about Bill Clinton’s 2004 advice to John Kerry that he should consider supporting a ban on same sex marriage. I’m obviously not the only source: Newsweek independently reported the story eight years ago. My book came out six years ago and no one denied the accounts then or since then—until now. A Clinton spokesman told The New York Times that the anecdote was completely false. But the story is true and I stand by it. The long silence speaks more powerfully than a pro forma, convenient denial at this late date.

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