On Sunday in Iowa, Hillary to accept endorsement of the Human Rights Campaign,

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the largest LGBT group in the U.S.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/19/hillary-clinton-is-endorsed-by-largest-lgbt-rights-group/


Hillary Clinton is endorsed by largest LGBT rights group

By Abby Phillip January 19


The nation's largest LGBT rights organization, the Human Rights Campaign, announced that it has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.

“All the progress we have made as a nation on LGBT equality — and all the progress we have yet to make — is at stake in November," HRC President Chad Griffin said in a statement. “While they fight to take us backwards, Hillary Clinton is fighting to advance LGBT equality across our nation and throughout the world."

"We are proud to endorse Hillary Clinton for president, and believe that she is the champion we can count on in November — and every day she occupies the Oval Office," he added.

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In a statement Tuesday, Clinton pledged to support the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include discrimination against LGBT people, she would support transgender people serving in the military, and would end the practice of gay 'conversion therapy' on minors.

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And so now, the Human Rights Campaign is officially part of the Establishment, according to Bernie's campaign:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511054265

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http://www.hrc.org/blog/human-rights-campaign-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president

The Human Rights Campaign -- with 1.5 million members and supporters nationwide -- is planning an unprecedented organizational effort to register and mobilize the nation’s pro-equality majority and elect pro-LGBT candidates up and down the ballot. In 2016, HRC expects that the pro-equality vote will be larger, stronger, and more energized than at any point in history. Exit polls show that in 2012 at least six million LGB Americans voted in an election decided by less than five million votes. Today, in key states like Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida, the population of LGBT adults is greater than the average margin of victory in the last three presidential elections. HRC has begun organizing members and supporters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina ahead of the upcoming caucus and primary elections. HRC will soon make announcements about campaign activities related to Presidential, Senate and other races in additional states.

Beyond the LGBT vote, polling has shown that in 2016, LGBT equality could be a pivotal issue for the general electorate. Support for marriage equality hit a record high of 60 percent over the last year, and nearly 80 percent of Americans support federal non-discrimination protections for LGBT people. LGBT equality is also a key decision point for voters: a 55 percent majority of Americans say they would be less likely to vote for a candidate opposed to marriage equality. This progress has been driven in great part by the growing number of Americans -- now nine out of ten people -- with an LGBT person in their lives.

Secretary Clinton has made LGBT equality a pillar of her campaign and recently unveiled the most robust and ambitious LGBT plan any candidate for president has ever laid out. She has vowed to fight for the Equality Act -- a bill that would finally offer explicit, clear, and permanent non-discrimination protections for LGBT people at the federal level -- and her detailed LGBT policy platform specifically calls for dropping the ban on open transgender military service, outlawing dangerous “conversion therapy” for minors, ending the epidemic of transgender violence, and supporting HIV prevention and affordable treatment, among other proposals that would advance equality and support the LGBT community.

Clinton also has a long record as a champion for LGBT rights both in the U.S. and, notably, around the globe. As Secretary of State, Clinton became the first in her position to robustly advocate for LGBT equality throughout the world, making a historic and forceful speech to the United Nations declaring that “gay rights are human rights.” In the Senate, she helped lead on bills to protect LGBT workers from employment discrimination, and had a strong record on key votes and legislation that mattered to LGBT Americans.

[MoonRiver]

1. Awesome! Congrats Secretary Clinton on this important endorsement!

[Iliyah]

2. K & R

[SunSeeker]

3. K & R

[Hekate]

4. This is a great accolade and trust in things to come. nt

[dsc]

5. I am not that old

but I am old enough to remember in 1984 our party being pilloried as San Francisco Democrats (we had our oonvention there that year) and now gay rights is mainstream enough that the endorsement of the HRC is accepted publicly in Iowa by a mainstream candidate. It is hard to believe the change in my lifetime.

[pnwmom]

6. The last ten years has been amazing, hasn't it? I think we're finally

reaching the critical mass of people everywhere finally recognizing the gay people in their own nuclear and extended families -- and acknowledging that they deserve the same human rights as everyone else.

[Agnosticsherbet]

7. Great endorsement. The changes have been incredible.