Tell Me Again Why a One-Party Strategy Is Best.

I won't be reading Bill Clinton's 957-page My Life, but Gay.com's Chris Bull reveals the part we'd want to know. He says Clinton "gives very little attention to gay politics," including his 1996 signing of the Defense of Marriage Act. But Clinton does reveal new details about the political machinations behind the failed effort to abolish the military's gay ban. Bull writes:

Clinton focuses on the incendiary pro-ban argument that Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., made in a closed-door meeting: "He believed homosexuality was a sin; said he would never let his grandson, whom he adored, join a military that admitted gays; and asserted that one reason the Roman Empire fell was the acceptance of pervasive homosexual conduct from Julius Caesar on down."

Yikes. Bull gets a reaction from openly gay one-time Clinton insider David Mixner. "The problem was that no one in the White House wanted to deal with the issue," Mixner tells Bull. "They just didn't have a stomach for a fight over a gay cause, and that left a vacuum for [anti-gay former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga)] and Byrd to fill. We never had a chance."

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