No President likes to veto bills passed by Congress, even less liked is to have a veto overridden. That is exactly what would have happened had Bill Clintion vetoed DOMA when it passed both Houses of Congress.
The process of attaining freedom for all Americans has been one of slow, but persistent, movement towards what is written in the Fourteenth Amendment :
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Note the section about abridgment, no State can fail to recognize the legally made marriage entered into in another State. In Loving vs. Virginia, the couple had been legally married in Washington, DC. Virginia refused to recognize the union.
Too bad, said the USSC. Legal marriage is legal anywhere in the USA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia<br />
JCBOY: File suit on Monday to force Florida to step up or step out of the way.
Joe(My best wishes)Nation