2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Has Sanders really always supported marriage equality [View all]dsc
(52,152 posts)the only issue, the one and only issue she opposed was marriage. And despite my repeated requests, as in over and over and over again, for any contemporaneous statement of support for marriage from Sanders that predates 2009 I have been repeatedly stiffed. Now he did oppose DOMA while she supported it and he was silent while opposing the amendment in 2004 while she gave an ill conceived statement on the floor of the Senate while opposing the same amendment. Otherwise the evidence is pretty much the same. Including even in the 1970's when Sodomy was decriminalized in Arkansas while Clinton was AG. Yes, in Arkansas of all places. It wasn't a perfect thing but it did change the law against sodomy to a misdemeanor instead of a felony which means that it couldn't be used to deny custody of children or professional licenses. In comparison, sodomy was still a full out felony in NC in 2003 when the Supreme Court overturned the law.