Documents show the admistratn engulfed a polil firtorm over gay marriage.
Contents:
- REMEMBER WHEN HILLARY CLTON WAS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE?
- HILLARY CLTON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PROBLEM
- CLTON’S LEGACY ON GAY RIGHTS
- HILLARY CLTON’S CLAIM THAT DOMA HAD TO BE ENACTED TO STOP AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTUTN
- HILLARY CLTON CLAR 'GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS'
- HILLARY CLTON’S GAY RIGHTS EVOLUTN
REMEMBER WHEN HILLARY CLTON WAS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE?
Hillary Clton wasted no time -optg today’s historic Supreme Court lg on gay marriage as a promotnal vice for her printial n. “Proud to celebrate,” Clton clared on Twter, spe the fact that relatively recently she thought same sex marriage should rema illegal. * hillary clinton anti gay *
So ’s fair to say that Hillary Clton has had a longstandg opposn to gay marriage—eher that, or she was too aaid to speak tthfully about her nvictns for polil reasons, which is really jt as bad.
* 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.
HILLARY CLTON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PROBLEM
Sixteen years ago, Hillary Clton clearly articulated an anti-gay marriage posn. Now, she uldn't be a more full-throated supporter. * hillary clinton anti gay *
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?
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. 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.
CLTON’S LEGACY ON GAY RIGHTS
Whout Hillary Clton’s efforts, the global stggle for equaly for gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people would not have proceed as fast as has the past several years, nor would the Uned Stat be seen today as a global lear that stggle. * hillary clinton anti gay *
In liberal circl, now seems impossible to have red eply about human rights, to have red about gay rights, and to have objected to gay marriage, even though that was the exact posn of almost all liberals very recently. GROSS: You know, I'm sayg, I'm sorry, I jt want to clarify what I was sayg, I was sayg that you maybe really believed this all along, you know, believed gay marriage all along, but felt for polil reasons Ameri wasn't ready yet and you uldn't say .
HILLARY CLTON’S CLAIM THAT DOMA HAD TO BE ENACTED TO STOP AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTUTN
The US vows to fight for homosexual rights abroad by g foreign aid and diplomacy, clarg gay rights an alienable human right. * hillary clinton anti gay *
This was an credibly new and important ia that people on the ont l of the gay rights movement began to talk about and slowly but surely nvced others of the rightns of that posn.
HILLARY CLTON CLAR 'GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS'
* hillary clinton anti gay *
Augt 2007: In a Democratic primary bate sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign and LOGO Network (a gay-oriented TV statn) Clton was asked "What is at the heart of your opposn to same-sex marriage?
HILLARY CLTON’S GAY RIGHTS EVOLUTN
From discrimatory bathroom laws to gay marriage, here's where the Democrat and Republin ndidat, Hillary Clton and Donald Tmp, as well as Tim Kae and Mike Pence, stand on LGBT rights. * hillary clinton anti gay *
It is fair to say that whout Clton’s efforts, the global stggle for equaly for gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people would not have proceed as fast as has the past several years, nor would the Uned Stat be seen today as a global lear that stggle.