2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Has Sanders really always supported marriage equality [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)Period. Being against DOMA means being for marriage equality.
I am sorry that your rubric is some video of him grandstanding his support between those years.
That is not Sanders. He voted against DADT. He voted against DOMA. He supported same sex unions in 2000 in VT and full gay marriage rights in 2009. He has received time and time again a 100% approval rating from the Human Rights Campaign. Obviously they do not care about such a video like you apparently do. And his actions do not fit the agenda you are trying to paint - well there is no video of him saying it so despite his actions he may have evolved as well. That is a specious pile of horseshit, and I really can't believe that you think members here are stupid enough to fall for that shit.
He has supported LGBT rights since the 1970's. There was very little to no talk about gay marriage until the 1990's. You get that right?
When it comes to Hillary, her words are her votes. She ran campaigns on those words including in 2008. She was a very vocal opponent of LGBT rights including marriage rights. She supported DOMA and DADT. Up to the late 2000's she was still stating quite openly that marriage is a bond between an man and a woman only. She was the First Lady in the 1990's. She didn't have a vote. But she sure as hell had a voice. And that voice was against LGBT civil and marriage rights.