Richard Socarides claims he publicly 'urged' Clinton not to sign DOMA.
In an email exchange with San Francisco activist Michael Petrelis, playwright Larry Kramer, and New York activists Andy Humm and Allen Roskoff, Bill Clinton's former LGBT adviser Richard Socarides claims he protested against the president's signing of 1996's Defense of Marriage Act both privately and publicly: ``I urged Clinton not to sign DOMA at the time, both publicly and privately.
However, during a fiery, finger-pointing speech in Pittsburgh yesterday, Clinton called for a repeal of both DOMA and DADT and explained his reasons for signing them into law during his tenure in office.