Hillary clinton and gay marriage

Note: This page is a reproduction of the Hillary for America policy proposal on LGBT rights and equality. 

Thanks to the hard serve of generations of LGBT advocates and activists who fought to make it possible, our country won a landmark victory last June when the Supreme Court recognized that in America, LGBT couples—like everyone else—have the right to marry the person they love.

We’ve come so far, but we still contain work to do.

As president, Hillary will:

• Fight for packed federal equality for LGBT Americans. Hillary will labor with Congress to transmit the Equality Act, persist President Obama’s LGBT equality executive actions, and back efforts underway in the courts to protect people from discrimination on the basis of gender self and sexual orientation in every aspect of widespread life.
• Support LGBT youth, parents, and elders. Hillary will end so-called “conversion therapy” for minors, combat youth homelessness by ensuring adequate funding for safe and welcoming shelters, and obtain on bullying and harassment in schools. She’ll terminate discriminato
  

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  Dan Merica, CNN

  Washington (CNN)As recently as a year ago, Hillary Clinton was sparring with a public radio host about her position on same-sex marriage, defending her past reticence to discuss the issue and falling well short of full-throated help. Now, in a markedly modern position, Clinton is offering just that, calling gay marriage a right afforded by the Constitution.

  &#;Hillary Clinton supports marriage equality and hopes the Supreme Court will come down on the side of same-sex couples being guaranteed that constitutional right,&#; said Adrienne Elrod, a Clinton spokeswoman, in a statement.

  This is an entirely new position for Clinton.

  As a candidate in , Clinton opposed same-sex marriage, supporting the concept of civil unions instead. She did not proclaim her personal support for same-sex marriage until , after she left her diplomatic position as secretary of state.

  During a interview with NPR, Clinton and host Terry Gross sparred over the topic in a conversation that, at times, grew testy. Clinton told Gross that she always viewed marriage as &#;a mat
  
  

  Hillary Clinton’s Email About Male lover Parents Should Seriously Trouble Her LGBT Supporters

  In after time , the State Department made an exceedingly benign change to U.S. passport application forms. Instead of listing “Mother” and “Father,” these forms would now list “Parent 1” and “Parent 2.” The alter, the department declared, was “in recognition of diverse types of families”—namely, families with same-sex parents.

  Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was furious. In a recently released email, Clinton proclaimed that she would not defend the decision, “which I disagree w and knew nothing about, in front of this Congress.” She then wrote that she “could live w letting people in nontraditional families choose another descriptor so long as we retained the presumption of mother and father.” Shortcoming to act immediately, she fretted, would lead to “a huge Fox-generated media storm led by Palin et al.” (The department quickly reversed the ruling, apparently appeasing the secretary.)

  It’s easy to sympathize with Clinton’s concern about a conservative media maelstrom and insist th