In 2010, the State Department moved to change passport forms from "Mother" and "Father" to Parent 1 and Parent 2, to help recognize same-sex families.
What did Hillary Clinton do about this move? She said she "disagreed" with it, and worried that Fox News and Sarah Palin would complain. So the State Department backtracked and killed the change.
From Slate:
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was furious. In a recently released email, Clinton proclaimed that she would not defend the decision, “which I disagree w and knew nothing about, in front of this Congress.” She then wrote that she “could live w letting people in nontraditional families choose another descriptor so long as we retained the presumption of mother and father.” Failure to act immediately, she fretted, would lead to “a huge Fox-generated media storm led by Palin et al.” (The department quickly reversed the decision, apparently appeasing the secretary.)
It pains me to see Hillary Clinton throw the community under the bus because Fox "News" might complain. Hasn't she learned anything? They'll always find something to complain about, even if it doesn't exist. Remember Death Panels? Remember the supposed criminal record of Van Jones?
It's troubling because Hillary's record on LGBT rights is, well...not so good is a polite way to put it.
Once more from Slate:
Clinton’s decidedly non-inclusive language might be forgivable if she had a sterling track record on LGBT rights. She doesn’t. Clinton only came out for marriage equality in 2013, in what the Economist dubbed a “farcically late conversion.” Even then, she seemed to endorse the Dick Cheney position that states should be allowed to decide whether or not to deprive gay people of their fundamental right to wed.
Is this who we want representing our party, our movement and our community? Or do we want someone who has been on the right side of history, fighting for equal rights for LGBT people
for the past 40 years?
Do we want someone who refused to admit, even recently, that DOMA was designed to kill gay marriage? Or do we want someone proudly voted against DOMA and defended LGBT service members for decades? The choice is ours.