There is a new set of anti-Bernie memes being used that are from right wing sources.
The worst of them is this one:
Not only did he support marriage equality the "quotes" from 1982 and 2006 are blatant fabrications.
When I did a search it led me to a Twitter feed where another person posted a picture of Bernie in a Nazi uniform:
#NoBernie
#WakeUpAmerica https://t.co/1OjbFaD61s
https://twitter.com/TEN_GOP/status/700079095288352769?s=09
Please check your sources before posting.
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Like the meme in the op.
Differing opinions are fine but outright lies push my buttons.
For all time.
Bernie ran for Governor of Vermont in the 1970s.
I didn't know the origins. I'm not familiar with progressivestoday--I will go research it.
btw-the twitter link was pretty disgusting. I looked through many of their tweets. 
I believe you posted a pre-emptive op before all of this started.
Thanks for trying.
So much so that "progressives" have decided that Fox News, the Daily Caller, the Washington Times, the Free Beacon, and virtually every other right wing source is preferable to respected publications like the New York Times and the Washington Post.
The blatant fabrications about Clinton are posted by said "progressives" on a daily basis. And now you're outraged that there exists someone on the internet something that fails to herald Bernie as superior.
How dare they not use their right wing memes to sink the presumptive Democratic nominee and deliver the election to the GOP!
It says something that YOU were the one who had to bring it here rather than a Clinton supporter.
Your information about Sanders on marriage equality is incomplete, to say the least, but that is entirely expected given the source.
And let me know when you start calling out right wing smears against Bernie from your associates.
Or when you stop linking to blogs that are owned by homophobic racists.
Because the blog you've been linking to lately is owned by a homophobe.
But then I always consider the source too, lay down with dogs and all that.
I do hope you don't pay extra for the bullshit.
And here's just one instance where I called out the use of right wing sources.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1615739
Oh and reading is fundamental, I said "one instance".
One time you told a newbie "don't use Free Beacon" doesn't clean your DU record.
I think this person had the right idea this morning;
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1107&pid=87151
Buh-bye.
Hector Projector.
And thanks for the tip, that op was hidden for some strange reason.
Wish I could find the clip but alas...
But considering the source I won't hold my breath.
Smooch!
Mostly people who belong to Bill's hate site and their sister site the CCave.They project their own motives onto me but the funny thing is they can never back up their claims.
So I let it roll off my back, when bigots and assholes hate me I know I'm doing something right.
Keep trying though.
When you stop it goes away.
Seriously if the drill instructors couldn't break me and stalkers couldn't scare me what do you think harrassing me on the internet and calling me 'sweetie' is going to do?
Better luck next time.
Not like it's a big secret, most people know about the alert stalking of cali and the rest of us, who was involved and how long it's been going on.
And you want people to believe that I'm bullying you with my cheery snarkiness and smilies, it's absurd. I mean it's not like people can't read the thread.
Like I said, I'm not intimidated, I'm not going anywhere and you're not going to bait me into a hide so you might as well give up.
You were the one who said you felt like I was bullying you so who's really playing the martyr?
But if you really really feel like I'm bullying you here's a hug:
All better?
If you guys keep this up you're going to create a worldwide shortage of straw. Think of the animals!
Their shit smells of lavender & roses!
[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=#009999]This video does a good job of demolishing that article:
But, going back to them image, the LGBTQ community supported civil unions in Vermont...does that mean they were against SSM? Of course not. Civil Unions were a stepping stone and everyone knows that. GLAD even called them a Victory
http://www.glad.org/work/cases/baker/civil-unions
Here is an NPR article detailing the struggle that was had to pass Civil Unions back then.
http://www.npr.org/2013/03/27/174651233/how-vermonts-civil-war-fueled-the-gay-marriage-movement
And the 1982 document was debunked. It was about trying to lower divorce rates and had nothing to do with LGBTQ issues at all. Trying use it to say Sanders opposed Gay marriage is like trying to say the Flinstones Theme song was about being homosexual because it ends with the phrase "we will have a gay ole time."
But beyond that, it ignores Sanders Letter from around the 1970s:
And all he did to get a gay pride day passed in Burlington:
http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2015/06/30/32-years-before-scotus-decision-sanders-backed-gay-pride-march
His defense of Gay Soliders in the 1990's:
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/9/9295867/bernie-sanders-gay-soldiers
Risking his political career opposing DOMA:
http://www.advocate.com/election/2015/10/25/bernie-sanders-doesnt-remember-domas-passage-same-way-hillary-clinton
His perfect record on gay rights legislation:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Notebook/Note_06n-HRC.htm
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511531610
This man has risked his career time and time again to fight for Gay rights. The fact that on DU, of all places, that people would even attempt to swiftboat him like this is disgusting.
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Bookmarking for the next time someone pulls this crap.
But these are only very recent developments. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may be champions of same-sex marriage now, but you don’t have to go far back to find a time when they weren’t. And hey, we’re happy to have their evolved support.
Not only did Sanders vote against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 which defined marriage as between one man and one woman, signed into law by then-president Bill Clinton — an unpopular position then — a look back at Sanders’ political career shows consistent support of the gay rights movement. Even when it was more than just unpopular, it was downright controversial.
“In our democratic society, it is the responsibility of government to safeguard civil liberties and civil rights — especially the freedom of speech and expression,” Sanders wrote later in a memo. “In a free society, we must all be committed to the mutual respect of each others lifestyle.”
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“It is my very strong view that a society which proclaims human freedom as its goal, as the United States does, must work unceasingly to end discrimination against all people. I am happy to say that this past year, in Burlington, we have made some important progress by adopting an ordinance which prohibits discrimination in housing. This law will give legal protection not only to welfare recipients, and families with children, the elderly and the handicapped — but to the gay community as well.”
http://www.queerty.com/32-years-before-marriage-equality-bernie-sanders-fought-for-gay-rights-20150719
Of course, Clinton has since evolved on LGBT rights, as many have. That's wonderful. But the problem is, she only came out in support of marriage equality after it was not politically risky to do so. In fact, by 2013 - the year Clinton announced her full support for marriage equality - Democratic support for same-sex marriage was the norm, not the exception.
On such an important moral issue that affects my life and the lives of thousands of other Americans, making decisions in this manner is rather despicable. Additionally, Clinton's habit of doing what polls deem politically popular is the reason why so many voters find her inauthentic. Now, if Clinton were the only option for the Democratic presidential nomination, I would understand why we should support her despite these flaws.
But she isn't the only option.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the longest-serving Independent in the history of Congress, is also running for the nomination. And unlike Clinton, his record on LGBT rights is historically excellent.
Sanders voted against DOMA, one of the few members of Congress to do so, at a time when such a stance was not politically popular. Four years after DOMA passed, Sanders helped champion Vermont's decision in 2000 to become the first state to legalize same-sex civil unions. This set a national precedent for LGBT equality achieved via legislative means. In 2009, when Vermont became the first state to allow marriage equality through legislative action rather than a court ruling, Sanders expressed his support once again. Truly, Sanders has been a real leader on LGBT rights, even if this leadership isn't recognized in the way that Clinton's current support is.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-novak/on-lgbt-rights-bernie-lea_b_7662682.html
Today’s Supreme Court decision was a monumental moment in American history, as it guaranteed the right for gays and lesbians to get married and established full marriage equality.
Many politicians offered their words of support, including President Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Yet it is important to remember that Obama and Clinton both opposed marriage equality as late as early 2012. It is a testament to the work of thousands of activists over decades that the political class was pulled towards supporting equality.
There is however one prominent politician who did not wait so long to call for full gay equality: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
In a letter he published in the early 1970’s, when he was a candidate for governor of Vermont from the Liberty Union Party, Sanders invoked freedom to call for the abolition of all laws related to homosexuality:
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/bernie-sanders-was-full-gay-equality-40-years-ago
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Saturday he has been waiting for the nation to catch up to his support for same-sex marriage.
Sanders’ remarks come a day after Friday’s landmark 5-4 Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
He argued he was well ahead of the historic decision, unlike Hillary Clinton, his main rival for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
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Sanders at the time served in the House of Representatives, which voted 342-67 in favor of DOMA. The Senate voted 85-14 in favor, before former President Bill Clinton signed it into law.
“That was an anti-gay marriage piece of legislation,” he added of the law that defined marriage at the federal level as the coupling of one man and one woman.
Sanders on Saturday praised Americans for creating greater opportunities for same-sex couples. Friday’s Supreme Court ruling, he charged, was not possible without national pressure for gay rights.
“No one here should think for one second this starts with the Supreme Court,” Sanders said.
“It starts at the grassroots level in all 50 states,” he said. “The American people want to end discrimination in all its forms.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/246370-sanders-i-was-ahead-of-the-curve-on-gay-rights
Most Americans now support legally allowing gay and lesbian relationships, same-sex marriage, and personal marijuana use after decades of shifting public opinion. But one Democratic candidate for president, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, was calling for many of these changes decades ago.
In a 1972 letter to a local newspaper — which was recently resurfaced by Chelsea Summers at the New Republic — Sanders wrote that he supported abolishing "all laws dealing with abortion, drugs, sexual behavior (adultery, homosexuality, etc.)" as part of his campaign for Vermont governor:
These stances were far removed from public opinion at the time, according to Gallup surveys on marijuana and gay and lesbian rights. In 1972, 81 percent of Americans said marijuana should be illegal — which suggests even more would favor the prohibition of more dangerous drugs like cocaine and heroin. In 1977, the earliest year of polling data, 43 percent of Americans said gay and lesbian relations between consenting adults should not be legal, while 43 percent said they should be legal.
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But it took decades for the American public to come around to majority support on these issues: It wasn't until 2013 that a majority of Americans supported marijuana legalization, the early 2000s that most consistently responded in favor of legal gay and lesbian relations, and 2011 that a majority first reported backing same-sex marriage rights.
Sanders has carried many of these positions to this day. He was one of the few federal lawmakers to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal ban on same-sex marriages, in the 1990s. And while he told Time's Jay Newton-Small in March that he has no current stance on marijuana legalization (but backs medical marijuana), he characterized the war on drugs as costly and destructive.
http://www.vox.com/2015/7/7/8905905/sanders-drugs-gay-rights
Now that he's officially announced he will seek the Democratic nomination for president and challenge Hillary Clinton, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will be talking about his positions on major issues on the campaign trail, and one very big issue he has championed for years is gay marriage. Sanders, unlike some of his potential Republican opponents, seems like he would not turn down an invitation to a gay wedding (and he might actually get invited to one).
In 1996, then-Representative Sanders voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, which barred recognition of gay marriage at the federal level (DOMA was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2013). Sanders' and his home state of Vermont were the first to legalize same-sex unions in 2000, at first recognizing them as civil unions. Gay marriage has been legal in Vermont since 2009, and as The New York Times reported, Vermont was the first state to pass legislation in support of same-sex marriage, rather than in reaction to a court ruling.
On Tuesday, as the Supreme Court took up the issue of gay marriage, Sanders issued a statement on his website reaffirming his support, saying gay Americans in every state should be allowed to marry.
Of course all citizens deserve equal rights. It’s time for the Supreme Court to catch up to the American people and legalize gay marriage.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/79951-bernie-sanders-views-on-gay-marriage-show-hes-been-a-supporter-for-a-long-time
Bernie Sanders, the longest-serving independent member of Congress, is officially seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, the Vermont senator announced in an email to supporters this morning.
"People should not underestimate me," Sanders told the Associated Press in an interview that broke the news of his candidacy Wednesday night. "I've run outside of the two-party system, defeating Democrats and Republicans, taking on big-money candidates and, you know, I think the message that has resonated in Vermont is a message that can resonate all over this country."
The self-described "Democratic socialist" wants to challenge the business-as-usual trend of big money in politics that he says dominates the current candidates — including Hillary Clinton.
The thrust of Sanders's campaign thus far — like his political career as the mayor of Burlington, Vt., 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the past seven in the U.S. Senate — has focused on supporting working-class Americans through elevated taxes on the wealthy and correcting income inequality "which is now reaching obscene levels," he told the AP.
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.
http://www.advocate.com/politics/election/2015/04/30/bernie-sanders-most-lgbt-friendly-candidate
socialists. Now, I spent the entire last year of my undergraduate education studying the 20th century with special emphasis on the social and economic consequences of the first world war and the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler was not a socialist, and after he took over the party, he quietly got rid of the socialists. The reason? He wanted to rearm and start a war of revenge against France and England. To do this he needed the support of the German industrialists and military aristocracy.
So the Nazis weren't socialists.
(sigh)
Do you still have that article that debunked the marriage resolution nonsense? I couldn't find it.
