2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton’s Email About Gay Parents Should Seriously Trouble Her LGBT Supporters
Mrs. Clinton is a politician; she isn't very brave; and we learned from the last debate she likes to avoid "contentious debate".
Hillary Clintons Email About Gay Parents Should Seriously Trouble Her LGBT Supporters
Mark Joseph Stern - Slate.com
... Whats bizarre about Clintons checkered history with LGBT rights is that, as Ive written before, she really should be a gay rights icon. Clinton is the frontrunner in a Democratic primary in which the vast majority of voters will passionately favor LGBT rights. Shes not responsible for her husbands gay marriage misstepsand even if she were, she could simply express regret about them and move on. The same goes for her ostensible discomfort around gay people in 2000: Clinton could easily apologize for her erstwhile narrow-mindedness. Over the last few years, in fact, most of her Democratic colleagues have done exactly that. Why is Clinton still unwilling to confess past error and get in front of the issue? ...
thereismore
(13,326 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Oh my, Sarah Palin will be displeased!
underpants
(182,585 posts)"parent one and two" IS pretty stupid. She is right to let those it affects choose how they prefer to be referenced. The poli side is just prep. Sorry I don't see the problem... but I'm sure I'm about to find out what it is.
Not in either camp so please don't assume that I am.
DemocraticWing
(1,290 posts)I was leaning Sanders before that story broke a few months ago, but that put me firmly in the camp of thinking he was better for LGBTQ people. Another gay person in my family switched from Hillary to Bernie because of this.