Hilary Rosen, in a Washington Post op-ed pushed back on Bernie Sanders' use of a tweet she posted to attack Hillary Clinton on gay rights, including marriage...
She first puts the tweet into context...
Bernie Sanders seems to think that my tweet somehow validated his moral superiority to Hillary Clinton on LGBT rights.
Nothing could be further from the truth. First of all, it was Bill Clinton and not Hillary Clinton that signed DOMA. Bernie Sanders was in the House of Representatives and voted against the bill, but unlike his own revisionist history, he wasn’t for same-sex marriage at the time either. He should have read the rest of my tweets on the subject.
She talks about Hillary's concrete engagement on LGBT rights issues, listing the many ways she has advanced the cause...she also notes that while Bernie has voted the right way, he has never really engaged on the issue the way Hillary has...
In the twenty years since DOMA, Hillary Clinton has not only evolved on the issue, she has become a global leader in the fight for LGBT equality....
Bernie Sanders has done none of the above. Despite being from Vermont, a state with a progressive record on LGBT rights, Sanders was a follower. He supported civil unions as a solution for as long as many leading Democrats.
More at the link...
3:24 PM PT: Apparently there are some folks who have either not seen the original tweet, or think I did not include it in on purpose. It is included in the linked op-ed. In any case here it is:
Hilary Rosen
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@hilaryr
@BernieSanders is right. Note to my friends Bill and #Hillary: Pls stop saying DOMA was to prevent something worse. It wasnt, I was there.
10:40 PM - 24 Oct 2015