2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Left’s Beef With Tim Kaine: Bernie’s supporters see a rebuke in Clinton's ‘safe’ VP pick [View all]thucythucy
(8,039 posts)What is his position on the issue now?
I agree that the civil rights consensus on marriage equality took way too long to develop. But I'm more interested in someone's current position, than in mistakes--even egregious ones--made in the past. Is he still In support of that amendment, or has he--to use the popular word--evolved on the topic?
Of course, the folks on the other side--Mike Pence being the prime example--continue to espouse out and out bigotry, including support for "conversion therapy."
Martin Luther King was at first highly suspicious of LBJ, a white southerner who in the 1940s and into the 50s either touted a segregationist line, or at the very least was compliant and silent, and thus complicit. Rev. King and others in the movement saw that by 1964 Johnson had outgrown his past bigotry.
It's a shame that Senator Kaine has this blot on his record. I wish it wasn't so. But if he has truly evolved on the issue, and if he doesn't harbor the homophobia so blatant among the GOP, then I'm willing to accept him and move on.
None of us is perfect. I know I sure as hell aren't.