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A Muscular Vote for Marriage Inequality

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“I believe that marriage is not just a bond, but a sacred bond, between a man and a woman.

“I have had occasion in my life to defend marriage, to stand up for marriage, to believe in the hard work and challenge of marriage.

“I take umbrage at anyone who might suggest that those of us who worry about amending the Constitution are less committed to the sanctity of marriage or to the fundamental bedrock principle that it exists between a man and a woman, going back into the mists of history as one of the founding, foundational institutions of history, and humanity and certainly civilization.

“And that its primary, principal role during those millenia has been the raising and socializing of children into the society into which they are to become adults.”

Can you possibly guess which former Presidential candidate uttered these words that are encrusted in 4-inch thick golden nobility?

Which Cave Era conservative blathered this 2013 blasphemy when he or she was confident not a microphone or an opponent was closer than a mile?

My only clue: The speaker’s spouse has joked for years – privately, of course – that legions of friends and wannabe pals admire him for his rapier wit.

Answer: Hillary Clinton, energetically defending DOMA during her years as a U.S. senator from New York, in her B.S.E. period, Before She Evolved, also in her B.B.B. days, Before Benghazi Bologna. There is no record Ms. Clinton titled this oration her Marriage Inequality Address.