2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Will Bernie Fans Vote For Hillary? (TYT Poll RESULTS) [View all]pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)to childish name calling. Birds of a feather.
You didn't refute any fact I said. You can't. Seems you don't know anything. Didn't Hillary just say she supports gay marriage in 2015. Yea, you really know your shit. Better to believe in reality than swallowing all those talking points whole.
http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2015/06/30/32-years-before-scotus-decision-sanders-backed-gay-pride-march
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The day after the Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage a constitutional right, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) assured an audience in Nashua, N.H., Saturday morning that he's no newcomer to gay rights.
Sanders' evidence? His 1996 vote against the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as "a legal union between one man and one woman" and allowed states to refuse to recognize gay marriages performed elsewhere. The bill was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, husband of Sanders' rival for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton.
"Back in 1996, that was a tough vote," Sanders told his audience, according toThe Hill. "Not too many people voted against it, but I did."
That was hardly the first time Sanders went to bat for LGBTQ community, according to records of his tenure as mayor of Burlington, which are housed at the University of Vermont Library's Special Collections.
When gay rights organizers planned Burlington's first-ever pride parade in June 1983 two years after Sanders was elected mayor of the Queen City they called on the Board of Aldermen to designate June 25 Lesbian and Gay Pride Day.
"This human rights issue is of great importance to our community," the Organizing Committee of the Lesbian and Gay Pride Celebration wrote in a June 6 letter to the board.
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"In the city of Burlington and in the state of Vermont, people have the right to exercise their lifestyles," Sanders said. "It's an American right, anyone's right to have a march... This is a civil liberties question."
That was in 1983 you don't know what you are talking about. And when people who don't know what they are talking about get challenged with FACTS, they often resort to name calling. . . . and there you are.