2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Has Sanders really always supported marriage equality [View all]dsc
(52,155 posts)it is your claim he supported marriage since 96, not mine. It is you who are saying he is pure and Hillary is a vile evolver on this issue. That means you have to find where he said it. If you are correct it should be easy. But it is proving to be not so easy. I have searched the Congressional record and it wasn't there. One of his supporters found his book, it wasn't there. It wasn't in Civil Wars the book about the Civil Unions fight in Vermont (I own a copy so I looked there). There is literally no evidence at all, that he was in favor of marriage equality before 2009 that I have found. He did vote against DOMA, but literally every single straight congressperson, every last one, that gave a rationale for that vote stated, to a person. that the vote wasn't in favor of marriage equality but instead was against a law they felt was unnecessary and targeted gay people unfairly. Now maybe such a statement exists somewhere, if you find it, then I will shut up. But the fact is it looks like he was just as much, or to be fair a little bit less of, a play it safe politician on this as Hillary and O'Malley. The best you can say at this point is that he was silent and voted correctly while Hillary gave an unfortunate speech and voted correctly in 2004 and that he voted correctly in 1996 while she supported the wrong position. In fairness, that makes him a little better than her, but it isn't the tale your spinning now.