“Today, a few are trying to rewrite history by saying they voted for one anti-gay law to stop something worse”, he said.
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“If they’re going to have a campaign that attacks Bernie on gun safety, and implies he engages in sexism, that’s unacceptable”, Devine told Politico.
When Maddow mentioned the internal rancor in Vermont at the time, Sanders replied, “I felt that at the time, given Vermont had gone first in breaking new ground, let’s take it easy for a little while”.
When Clinton sat down with Rachel Maddow on Friday, Maddow pressed her on her husband signing the Defense of Marriage Act, the infamous anti-gay legislation.
There are so many more issues than just the LGBT ones, but if you had to choose between Sanders and Clinton based on the LGBT issues, who would you vote for?
Sanders, who voted against DOMA, remembered it differently.
“In terms of the Keystone pipeline, you know, I am extremely anxious, along with all of the scientists who have studied this issue that climate change is already causing devastating problems, and it’s only going to get worse unless we are bold in transforming our energy system”, Sanders explained. – Josh Kruger (@jawshkruger) October 25, 2015 @AdamSerwer This doesn’t suggest it precludes Hillary Clinton from the WH.
“Hillary’s version of DADT and DOMA is so wrong”, Mixner tweeted. “The only “defensive posture” was for their personal politics not LGBT”.
Tapper said, “You’re calling that legislation homophobic. She’s fine, has promised a lot”.
DOMA was poised become law with or without Bill Clinton’s signature. It passed 85-14 in the Senate and 342-67 in the House, margins easily big enough to override a presidential veto. Secretary Clinton has emerged as among the most important global voices on LGBT rights. To their dismay, he signed the bill.
“Whatever the context that led to the passage of DOMA almost two decades ago, Hillary Clinton believes the law was discriminatory and both she and President Clinton urged that it be overturned”, spokesman Brian Fallon told the Huffington Post, in an article that reviews the history and sides largely with the Sanders recollection. That summer, the Supreme Court struck it down, concluding that its “avowed objective and practical effect” was to impose a separate status “stigma” on gays who want to marry.
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This is a Secretary of State that made a historic United Nations speech, stating simply: “Gay rights are Human rights”. So I’m glad that Hillary Clinton is moving in my direction.
