Sixteen years ago, Hillary Clton clearly articulated an anti-gay marriage posn. Now, she uldn't be a more full-throated supporter.
Contents:
- HILLARY CLTON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PROBLEM
- HILLARY CLTON CLAR 'GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS'
- HILLARY CLTON'S VIEWS EVOLVE ON GAY MARRIAGE, JT TIME FOR PRINTIAL MPAIGN
- HILLARY CLTON HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE GAY RIGHTS HISTORY. SHE REFED.
- HILLARY CLTON’S GAY RIGHTS EVOLUTN
HILLARY CLTON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PROBLEM
* hilary clinton is gay *
”HILLARY CLINTON FUELS 2020 SPECULATION TALKING TRUMP, PAST ROMANCES IN WILD HOWARD STERN INTERVIEWReporter Trish Bendix, who has won the 2015 Sarah Pett Memorial Award for excellence LGBT media and is a member of the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn, didn’t appreciate Clton’s rponse to the qutn.
HILLARY CLTON CLAR 'GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS'
Hillary Clton didn't rea om supportg same-sex marriage for polil reasons—before last year, she earntly believed that marriage equaly should be nied to gays and lbians. * The d tensn stemmed om persistent qutng as Clton obfted on an issue that uld damage her chanc a 2016 primary but is relatively unlikely to hurt her a ntt agast a Republin, given that her aln is so much stronger on gay rights than the opposn.
Most famoly, the Silin Valley left forced the oter of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich for a 2008 donatn he ma to an anti-gay-marriage ballot iative. If she is to be believed, she also opposed gay marriage as recently as 2013, long after a majory of Amerins already held a more gay-iendly posn.
HILLARY CLTON'S VIEWS EVOLVE ON GAY MARRIAGE, JT TIME FOR PRINTIAL MPAIGN
Would the subset of Democrats who thought 2008 opposn to gay marriage should prevent a man om beg CEO 2013 really support the 2015 printial mpaign of a woman who openly opposed gay marriage until last year? Dog so would seem to show nsistency, yet there's a strong argument to be ma that Clton's anti-gay-marriage past shouldn't drive cisns to support or oppose her.
No one doubts she will be a strong supporter of gay equaly if elected print, now that all the polil centiv to take that posn are aligned.
HILLARY CLTON HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE GAY RIGHTS HISTORY. SHE REFED.
There is, however, a vol segment of the left that is vted likeng people who opposed gay marriage to racists who opposed terracial marriage.
There is also rentment om gays who feel that the Cltons wronged them the Sullivan's perspective is stctive:She was the send most powerful person an admistratn a cril era for gay rights.
HILLARY CLTON’S GAY RIGHTS EVOLUTN
Clton also left gay service-members the lurch, doublg the rate of their discharg om the ary, and signed DOMA, the high watermark of anti-gay legislatn Amerin history. I was edor of TNR for five years of the Cltons, aggrsively wrg and publishg articl favor of marriage equaly and ary service, and saw the Cltons’ irratn wh and hostily to gay activists up close. But I thk of her posn as the same as the eponymo gay rights anizatn the Cltons ntrolled the 1990s, the Human Rights Campaign.
Fally, there is wispread amnia among Democrats more broadly, who reflexively assume that Hillary Clton has of urse supported gay marriage her heart of hearts for years.