On March 27, DOMA will come before the Supreme Court, and the justices must decide whether it is consistent with the principles of a nation that honors freedom, equality and justice above all, and is therefore constitutional. As the president who signed the act into law, I have come to believe that DOMA is contrary to those principles and, in fact, incompatible with our Constitution.

– President Bill Clinton, arguing against the constitutionality of the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, which blocks the Federal governmental from recognizing any same-sex marriage legal under state law.