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He voted against the Defense of Marriage Act.
Unlike some Democrats, Sanders didn’t have to “evolve” on the freedom to marry: He was one of the few congressman to oppose DOMA back in 1996. “That was a tough vote,” he admitted. “Not too many people voted against it, but I did.”
In 2011, he called on Barack Obama to support marriage equality—something the president did the very next year.
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