2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Has Sanders really always supported marriage equality [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)You did not "find" this recently. Your link is from a Daily KOS blog from July 31st. The blogger is a Clinton supporter. This is yet another Rovian/Atwater attack piece. Find a candidate's strengths, set up the straw man that he and/or his supporters think he is perfect, then find, imagine, or even create what might be an imperfection and exploit it. Wow, if Sanders has one such flaw then perhaps Clinton and he really aren't that different, and golly gee, they both evolved so Clinton is the better candidate for other reasons.
Utter and complete horseshit. Sanders has a long and well-documented history of supporting LGBT civil rights long before it was acceptable to do so in this country politically or personally. He has supported gay marriage once gay marriage became a political reality. It was not even on the land-scape in the early 1970's. Then, homosexuality was still a DSM classified mental health disorder.
You are trying to take one article and use it to dismiss the truth, yes the fucking truth, that he is miles and away better on LGBT civil rights than Hillary Clinton was for decades.
This is happening now in so many areas and with such alacrity that it is appearing orchestrated. I like Sanders but I have concerns. Sanders supporters think he is perfect, walks on water, etc. Saint Bernard. On and on.
I could give two shits about a single instance of him not answering a direct question from a journalist. Why? Because I can research and see decades of meaningful support beyond words. DOMA had one purpose and one purpose only - stop LGBT marriage before it could start. Sanders voted against that. He took action in support of LGBT marriage with that vote and his statements then regarding it. The Clintons, yes both of them, have yet to own their putting forth and complete support for DOMA. Evolution is great. Apologizing and owning up to your past bad behavior is even better.
Fuck this noise.