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In reply to the discussion: Tulsi Gabbard says she's running for president [View all]moriah
(8,311 posts)Look, it boils down to this:
I'm fine if people, both voters and Congresspeople, decide that despite their personal anti-choice and anti-LGBT views, they cannot under the Constitution enforce them on others so they vote pro-choice and pro-LGBT. I'm glad for their votes, and I'm not going to demand their ouster.
Do I trust a person who feels that way to lead the defense of pro-choice and pro-LGBT issues, as a Democratic presidential contender must?
Not really, no.
Especially not when a person who claims that her reason for voting pro-choice and pro-LGBT isn't a sudden personal turnaround, but the rule of law, is upset that nominees for judicial appointments are questioned about the rule of law and whether they too can set aside their personal views -- today, not in 1998 or 2004.