2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Has Sanders really always supported marriage equality [View all]dsc
(52,152 posts)and to my knowledge he isn't trying to peddle the nonsense that that letter is about marriage. I do have a huge problem with supporters of candidates telling stories they like instead of the truth. No reader of that letter, not a single one, would have said back in 1972 that the writer supported marriage equality. Not one.
If supporters want to honestly state that Bernie voted against DOMA while Hillary supported it I have no problem with that. If they want to further say that his silence while voting against the amendment in 2004 is better than her speech while doing so, I have no problem with that. I do have a problem, when I have asked over and over and over and over again for any contemperanous statement of his support of marriage equality and have been stiffed every time, with them saying he favored it since 1972 or 1996 or whatever other date they want to choose. I can't even find one from his Senate run in 2006 nor has one been supplied. The oldest one I found was from 2009