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In reply to the discussion: (Video) Hillary in 2004 on "Sanctity" of Hetero marriage. [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)the polling has told her that it is okay to.
To be fair, she is hardly the only Democrat to follow this path; our current President had much the same trajectory.
But we should call it what it is, political calculation --- not "evolution", because the fundamental moral rightness of equality was exactly the same in 2004 as it is now. And Hillary Clinton was the same compassionate, morally astute, smart human that she is now. I have no doubt, again, that internally she had figured it out.
The only differences between 2004 and today were the poll numbers, and Karl Rove using the "threat" of Gay Marriage and already-outdated noise about all powerful "values voters" as a club with which to scare our candidates into reprehensible crap like we see here.
She's on the right page now, and that's good, but it's not a profile in courage. A true profile in courage would have been doing the right thing back then.