Hillary Clinton is against gay mariage.?

Question

Hillary Clinton supports "civil unions" but is against gay marriage. In fact, she supported the Defense of Marriage Act.

Does this change your view of her?

slopoke6968: I don't know Chelsea's sexual preference one way or the other, nor do I care. With whom she has sexual relations is none of my business, nor is it anybody else’s. To discuss Chelsea’s sexuality without either of us knowing the girl (Well… You may very well know her, but I certainly have never been introduced) would only be opinion and rumor. The FACT remains that Hillary openly supported the Defense of Marriage act.
And let us be clear and honest here, the fact that a person has a gay child, does not necessarily mean that they are openly, if at all, supportive of gay rights.
Dick Cheney's daughter IS an out and publicly active lesbian, but he refuses to endorse same-sex marriage. At BEST, he has stated it should be left to the individual states to make their own ruling on the matter. At worst, he has stated his support of Bush’s proposed constitutional amendment banning same-gender marriage.

Answer 1

Civil Unions OMG! Republican candidates aren't even for that.

Oh yeah.. Agreement with Herr Doktor's response here.

Answer 2

Politicians have no moral conscience. What they are for or against is dependent on what they think will bring the most votes. More shocking to me is that when I contacted the Barack Obama campaign and asked his position on gay marriage he too will support "civil unions." My question to both of them would be this. Why is separate, but equal wrong for blacks and right for GLBTs?

From the responses of the Democratic candidates one can assume the so-called Gay leadership has said in essence, say civil unions and we will not rock the boat. WHAT A BUNCH OF FREAKING WIMPS!!! Wimping out was not the way we won victories in the hay-day of the Gay rights movement. We did it by scaring the pants and skirts (Fineswine) off the politicians.

Answer 3

Not really. I've actuallty warmed up to her lately. Before I couldn't stand her. None of the frontrunners are in support of gay marriage. We have to remember that this is an election and elections are about majority vote. Right now, I don't think the political climate will allow someone who supports gay marriage in the white house. So, the candidates aren't going to stick their necks out and chance losing. Barack Obama has actually come out and said that his christian background won't allow him to fully support gay rights. I think that worries me even more, because in his mind giving us civil unions is probably about as far as he's willing to go. Whereas another candidate (not necessarily hillary) will win with the civil union stance and maybe push it a little further along toward marriage while in office.

Answer 4

Doesn't change my view at all. It's no secret that most of the Democrats running support civil unions but not marriage. Almost all of the front runners have taken that stance. Edwards did say in one of the debates, on the subject of gay marriage that he didn't believe laws should be passed on religious beliefs. In my opinion Clinton adn others are pretty much saying they believe gay citizens should have some rights but not full rights. I find this unacceptable.

As for "defense of marriage", well that's just nuts. My wife and I have been married for 28 years. The only ones who can put that marriage in jeopardy are the two of us.

Answer 5

you know that's the problem with the world today. People have their noses shoved up so many other peoples aSSes, that they forget about what they are doing. Everyone has a right to live the way they want to. Sterotyping should not be a factor. I for 1 am tired of people telling this country how to act, what to do, and how and where to do things at. That is why Freedom of Choice is going out the window. Who cares what the nieghbors do, as long as they aren't putting a gun to your head. Let people live their lives, as they want to. As long as Mrs. Clinton is willing to work on the problems of keeping Americans SAFE, from war cool. Telling the Americans how they will live, what they will do, not cool.

Answer 6

Frankly, it's not very important to me. I'm a gay male, but I could care less if she's for or against "gay marriage" as long as civil unions are allowed. I believe the gov't shouldn't legislate what religious institutions do when it comes to the issue of marriage...and this is coming from a pretty liberal guy. As long as legal protections are in order, the spiritual component associated with referring to partnerships as "marriages" is a personal matter between you and your God. I don't need the church's blessing to bless my partnership (and I'm a Christian)...I believe God overrides whatever human error or misunderstanding the church is guided by. I also believe that there are more pressing issues in this upcoming election...issues of poverty, war, healthcare, education, etc. that are more important than whether or not I get to define my partnership in traditional or non-traditional terms.

Answer 7

Good for her, noone's asking her to marry a woman now are they? We're not even asking her to enter a civil union with one, or with her husband.

She's not a lesbian, so why should her say count on something that doesn't affect her one bit? Maybe the people making policy on this one should actually be LGBT, or close to LGBT people.

But hey, double standards are great. Works great every time. I love that "same rights but different" stuff, it's the future you know.

Maybe we can come up with a term for black people who are married, maybe we can call those civil black unions. Fantastic!

I guess she's all for women's rights and equality, but not for LGBT people. Yay second class citizens!

Answer 8

No as I tend to agree with her - I do not want to get married in the traditional sense. Marrige frankly is not good enough for me - the entire concept has been destroyed by heterosexuals already. Look at the divorce rate in the USA it is terrible.

I want to enter into an unbreakable contract with my husband. It sound be something that can ONLY be done once no matter what happens.

Answer 9

She is suprisingly not against gay marriage. I think she actually took part at a Gay Parade thing in NY... But thats a good question... :)

Answer 10

Not really. No viable Democratic candidate has the cajones to actually stand up for marriage equality because they're afraid it'll turn voters off. Sadly, it probably would.