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Clintons v. Finkelstein
Much ink is being spilled over the following. Arthur Finkelstein, the Republican strategist who made the career of the anti-gay Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, married his unnamed male partner in Massachusetts several months ago, a story that was reported this week in The New York Times. He is also in the news for launching a campaign called Stop Her Now to damage Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the run-up to an expected 2008 campaign for president by defeating her for Senate reelection in 2006.


Former Pres. Bill Clinton, the New York senator’s husband, defended her this week against Finkelstein’s attack, noting that the Republican’s marriage to a man and record of work for anti-gay bigots was evidence of “self loathing.”


Some commentators have pounced on Bill given his own record of opposing same-sex marriage, signing the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, and urging Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry to come out in favor of a all the state constitutional amendments last year banning gay marriage. (Kerry demurred.)