2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Has Sanders really always supported marriage equality [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)Your candidate has a bad history on LGBT civil and marriage rights. Own it. Move on. She has thankfully evolved.
My candidate has a stellar history on LGBT civil rights (1970's & 1980's) and marriage rights (1990's to the present).
Play all the fucking tortured logic games you want, but it does not change that very simple reality.
DADT was the Nunn's little baby. Nunn is a founder of the DLC/Third Way. Clinton was the chairman in the early 1990's prior to his election. He ran on their platform and policies. He owns DADT as the triangulated piece of shit that it was. Kennedy, Kerry, Boxer, and others were equally wrong for voting on this.
I was in the Army during the 1990's. I know exactly what DADT did and didn't do. Yet again you have your facts very, very wrong.
http://www.leonardmatlovich.com/dadtbeforeafter.html
http://www.palmcenter.org/files/One%20Year%20Out_0.pdf
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/09/study_of_don_t_ask_don_t_tell_repeal_helped_the_military_.html
It was an unnecessary law. It made zero difference. Once repealed, all that was feared if LGBT's were allowed to be open about their sexuality was exposed for the lies and distortions which they were.
I am done arguing reality with someone so hell bent on distorting it.