2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Has Sanders really always supported marriage equality [View all]it just doesn't necessarily mean that. It didn't mean that for Kerry whose record I site in this very thread. It didn't for any of the straight Congresspeople who went on the record. It didn't for Hawaii's congresspeople. It didn't for leahy. It didn't for lots of people.
Name one issue, other than marriage in which Hillary was a vocal opponent of gay rights in 2008 or any year since 2000 for that matter. Name one. Go ahead.
DADT was a compromise, that Kennedy, Kerry, Boxer and several others voted for at the time. Sanders did oppose the bill which included it which was the military budget for 1993. DADT was a defeat maybe you would have preferred we keep jailing gay servicemen and women, which is what we were doing prior to DADT.
Their records, in terms of votes, in the time they both were in Congress is identical on gay issues. You can call me names and huff and puff from now until the cows come home and give birth to aliens but that doesn't change that simple fact.
Now I do find your point about little talk of gay marriage before the 1990's to be quite persuasive. So that means I am correct that his letter in 1972, and his pride proclamation in 83 are than not about marriage, right. Since there was little to no talk about gay marriage. You get that, right?