Posted on 09/30/2015 10:46:22 PM PDT by Vision Thing
In September 2015, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton styles herself as a staunch defender of gay rights — particularly gay parental rights. “I’m proud of you!” she told a gay man last April, after he explained how he and his partner had adopted a little girl together.
But four years ago, Clinton was singing a very different tune. An e-mail included in the latest tranche of Clinton documents released by the State Department on Wednesday shows the then-secretary of state exploding at her staff over plans to replace “Mother” and “Father” with “Parent One” and “Parent Two” on passport application forms, complaining about the decision and refusing to defend it in the face of partisan opposition.
Clinton learned about the change through a January 7, 2011 article in The Washington Post. But the policy shift was first announced in a December 2010 press release from the State Department. “These improvements are being made to provide a gender-neutral description of a child’s parents and in recognition of different types of families,” the statement read.
The next day, Clinton sent an early-morning e-mail excoriating top aides Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan for the secretive policy shift. “I’m not defending that decision, which I disagree w and knew nothing about, in front of this Congress,” she wrote. “I could live w letting people in nontraditional families choose another descriptor so long as we retained the presumption of mother and father. We need to address this today or we will be facing a huge Fox-generated media storm led by [Sarah] Palin et al.”
Mills quickly responded, promising she would be “reaching out to folks to find out” who made the decision to axe “Mother” and “Father.” Within days, the new, gender-neutral language had been dropped from all U.S. passport applications.
Like President Obama, Clinton claims her position on gay rights has evolved over the years. She was steadfastly opposed to same-sex marriage from her time as First Lady until 2013, when she shifted her views along with a majority of the country. She celebrated the June 2015 Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide, and chided Republican opponents of the ruling.
Well, what they say about a broken clock is true . . .
At least Hillary had the sense to know this was a stupid idea. Too bad she surrounds herself with people who don’t realize that “Parent One” and “Parent Two” is ridiculous.
Try thinking about gay divorce lawyer commercials on TV.
“We need to address this today or we will be facing a huge Fox-generated media storm led by [Sarah] Palin et al.”
That is the reason for the email, not that she has anything against the concept herself.
You will note this is the same gambit as we saw recently in Tennessee. It's no accident. When "Parent One" and "Parent Two" become become customary practice in American social services agencies, it will then become impossible to collect statistics on the disaster that will be gay families.
Sure will. And they’ll do all in their power to make sure the horror stories are kept out of the public eye.
We lost when we allowed the Left to define “gay marriage” as an issue of personal liberty, when it’s about the right of children to be raised by their natural parents, or the next closest thing, a man and woman.
Yes, and that is a good example of how Political Correctness has been so effective and destructive. PC is a Communist tool invented after the Russian Revolution to control the narrative.
I guess Hillary! just wasn’t down with the whole
pink passport thing and the rainbow printing was
completely out.
Great news! Sarah Pahlin living rent-free in Hillary’s empty head. LOL.
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