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 HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE GAY RIGHTS HISTORY. SHE REFED.
- HILLARY CLTON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PROBLEM
HILLARY CLTON HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE GAY RIGHTS HISTORY. SHE REFED.
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Durg her first n for print 2008, Hillary Clton had an opportuny to bee an undisputed lear the gay rights she prepared for a fom on the gay-oriented Logo work, she reached out to her iend Hilary Rosen, a polil nsultant who is a lbian. The untry’s leadg gay rights group, the Human Rights Campaign, endorsed her early the mpaign, ldg her as a “champn” for s e. While most natnal policians have been slow to evolve on gay marriage, Clton’s handlg of was particularly sadng to some activists bee they had expected more.
Clton and her hband, Bill, had stood out as beg among the first to actively urt the gay muny as an tert group and donor base — and yet they were unwillg to stand wh the muny on one of s biggt civil rights issu. The muny had a straed relatnship wh the prev Democratic nomee, Michael Dakis, whom activists heckled at a mpaign event when he said he didn’t see the need to issue an orr banng discrimatn agast gays the feral Clton sought to clu the muny as a part of his aln. “I have a visn and you’re a part of , ” Bill Clton told the crowd, relled Richard Soris, who advised the Clton Whe Hoe on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr spoke about creasg fundg for AIDS rearch and endg discrimatn agast gay men and lbians.
HILLARY CLTON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PROBLEM
Most provotive was his unequivol promise to lift the ban on gay people servg the ary. Members of Congrs and ary officials were argug agast liftg the ban on gays servg the ary. The rult was the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they were not open about their sexual who spoke to Hillary Clton at the time said she enuraged her hband to fd more support Congrs to avoid the promise.
”Three years after “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” the print faced another qutn about gay rights. Still, some gay activists hoped that she might be a voice for them the Wt, who at the time head the rerdg dtry tra associatn, asked Clton whether she uld help change her hband’s md.
Rosen and other gay rights activists hoped that Hillary Clton might undo some of her hband’s legacy when she started to n for the Senate.