"Mr. President," activist Lane Hudson shouted from the audience. "Will you call for a repeal of DOMA and 'Don't ask, don't tell' right now?"

Bill Clinton stopped at the interruption. He was in the middle of giving the keynote address at the 2009 Netroots Nation Convention August 13, which was now drowned out by shouts and boos from the audience.

"You want to talk about 'Don't ask, don't tell?'" he said. "I'll tell you exactly what happened ... You couldn't deliver me any support."

The former President then accused the LGBT community of not providing enough support for his attempts to allow gay men and lesbians to openly serve in the military.

"All most of you did was to attack me instead of getting me some support in the Congress," Clinton said. "Now that's the truth."

According to Clinton, 'Don't ask, don't tell' was signed into law under the assumption that LGBT service members would not be "pursued" and discharged on the basis of their sexual orientation.

"I hated what happened," the former President said of the subsequent abuse of 'Don't ask, don't tell.' "I regret it."

Clinton continued answering Hudson's interruption by tackling the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). "I thought the question of whether gays should marry should be left up to states and religious organizations, and if any church or other religious body wanted to recognize gay marriage, they ought to," he said.

The keynote speaker explained that DOMA had been signed in order to avoid sending a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage to the states. "I think it's obvious that something had to be done to try to keep the Republican Congress from presenting that," he said.

"I didn't like signing DOMA and I certainly didn't like the constraints that were put on benefits," Clinton said.

About his decision to call out to the former President during the address, Hudson wrote in the Huffington Post August 14, "As I sat in the audience thinking about how Netroots Nation is about celebrating the most open forum of discussion ever to exist, it occurred to me that we were nothing more than a captive audience being talked to."

"I couldn't believe I said it. I mean, blogging and speaking my mind is one thing, but to yell it out in a large public forum to a former President of the United States is quite another," Hudson went on to say.

The activist/blogger defended his interruption of the speech, saying, "President Clinton did address the issues that I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have without my forcing the conversation."