Is Bernie Sanders the Most LGBT-Friendly Candidate?

[BrotherIvan]

http://www.advocate.com/politics/election/2015/04/30/bernie-sanders-most-lgbt-friendly-candidate

The Advocate, APRIL 30 2015

But Sanders has also been a steadfast and reliable supporter of LGBT equality, supporting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act when it passed the Senate in 2013 and even calling on President Obama to evolve already and support marriage equality in 2011. He's a cosponsor of the federal LGBT-inclusive Student Non-Discrimination Act and has consistently voted against bills seeking to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, while cosponsoring a bill that would repeal the remaining portions of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. Sanders has a perfect score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign's latest Congressional Equality Index.

Sanders used Twitter to highlight that long-standing support Monday, just one day before the Supreme Court heard arguments on marriage equality. That comment included an overt reference to Clinton — albeit to the former president and not the current presidential hopeful:



Clinton herself welcomed Sanders to the 2016 race with a tweet Thursday morning, while she has previously fired back at critics who lambasted what they claim was her slow evolution to support full marriage equality.

"You know, somebody is always first," Clinton told NPR's Terry Gross last summer. "Somebody’s always out front and thank goodness they are. But that doesn’t mean that those who joined later in being publicly supportive or even privately accepting that there needs to be change are any less committed. You could not be having the sweep of marriage equality across our country if nobody changed their mind. And thank goodness so many of us have."


This has been posted before but since it did not get much attention, it is worth posting again.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016121582

[NYC_SKP]

1. Yes.

He is.

[BrotherIvan]

2. Because equal rights don't evolve

They are innate!

[Enthusiast]

5. +1

[sabrina 1]

3. Once again, it's a question of judgement. His judgement was right, once again, at a time when most

elected officials had not yet 'evolved'. And Hillary's defense of her late evolving on this issue, and the Iraq issue would be fine if she were not running for an office where it is critical that good judgement is essential where making the wrong decision can cost lives, can destroy lives as you wait to evolve.

We need leaders who have the foresight and judgement to make the right decisions when it is important because leaders don't have the luxury of 'evolving'.

Enough of the excuses, Bernie got it right on almost all of the important issues and has the record to prove it.

I don't want to get into attacking other candidates because we don't have to, but to be honest, Hillary's statement only emphasizes why Bernie is the better choice for this country.

[BrotherIvan]

4. Yes

A leader must do what is right, not what is expedient. That is my number 1 argument for Sanders.