Clinton Opposed LGBTQ-Friendly Gender-Neutral Passport Forms

[Purveyor]

Hillary Clinton vehemently opposed the State Department’s 2010 decision to use “parent one and two” instead of “mother and father” on U.S. passport applications, according to a newly released email from her time in office.

“I'm not defending that decision, which I disagree and knew nothing about, in front of this Congress,” Clinton scolded in an email to top aides Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan in January of 2011. “I could live letting people in nontraditional families choose another descriptor so long as we retained the presumption of mother and father.”

Clinton asked her aides who was behind the decision, and worried about the controversy it would general from conservative media outlets.

“We need to address this today or we will be facing a huge Fox-generated media storm led by Palin et al.,” she wrote, referring to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R).

The comments could come back to haunt Clinton, whose presidential campaign has made an effort to appeal to gay couples. Her campaign sells multiple souvenir items aimed at LGBTQ supporters, and she will deliver an address at the advocacy group Human Rights Campaign on Saturday.

MORE...

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/255516-clinton-opposed-gender-neutral-passport-forms

[Catherina]

1. Oh-so-gay-friendly Hillary Clinton was livid

Oh-so-gay-friendly Hillary Clinton was livid when the State Department stopped using the terms "mother and father"

[Purveyor]

2. Oh now, now...she's 'evolving' again.

[Metric System]

3. You're going to have to do better than that to turn the gay community against Hillary. If many of us

understood/overlooked her stance on same-sex marriage, this is potatoes.

[MindfulOne]

5. Wow.

That's pretty spineless.

[NCTraveler]

4. Were there any regulatory changes.....

with respect to equal rights during her tenure at State?

[davidn3600]

6. Yeah but she "evolved" on the gay issues

So it's all good now...



Like I've said over and over...the problem with Hillary is you have no clue where she really, honestly stands. Because everything she says is a political calculation.

Too many shifting positions.

[Metric System]

7. Hillary was an ally to the LGBT community at the State Department:

http://www.advocate.com/politics/election/2015/07/01/amid-email-controversy-proof-hillary-clinton-and-has-been-pro-lgbt

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/07/01/clinton-emails-we-should-emphasize-lgbt-human-rights/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/01/hillary-clinton-lgbt-_n_7706748.html

[Metric System]

8. Log Cabin Republicans share your concern:

Gregory Angelo, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans, said the email demonstrates Clinton’s lack of commitment to LGBT rights.

“I hate to be a told-you-so, but as with so many other matters related to LGBT equality, this latest revelation about Hillary Clinton underlines what Log Cabin Republicans has long said: Hillary Clinton cannot be trusted as a standard-bearer for the community,” Angelo said. “She’s always been a follower in the work toward LGBT rights, never a leader. How many more revelations await in future email dumps before LGBT Democrats understand that her position on these issues is largely no different from Republicans?”

See more at: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/09/30/in-email-clinton-opposed-pro-gay-state-dept-change/#sthash.mJxQbtQN.dpuf

[Luminous Animal]

9. Always the coward. So, she is afraid of what the bigots might say, eh?

[moobu2]

10. Can we insist on Bernie Sanders and Joe Bidden

releasing all their emails pertaining to discussions with aids about sensitive political issues? I want to o see them and it's only fair.

[malokvale77]

12. Don't know about Biden...

but I'm pretty sure Sanders will look good.

[jeff47]

14. You're free to file your own FOIA request. (nt)

[malokvale77]

11. Yes but Barney Franks loves her.

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Fucking hypocrites.

[xynthee]

13. Appalling! NT

[jeff47]

15. But all her supporters here insist she's such a fighter.

So clearly this email must be forged if she's so worried about what Fox News will say.

[Doctor_J]

16. she was afraid of what Sarah Palin would think

[TheKentuckian]

17. She is sooooo tough and fearless in her opposition to the TeaPubliKlans