Will Bernie Fans Vote For Hillary? (TYT Poll RESULTS)

[Amimnoch]

192. To expand my own feelings on DB's response above...

Make no mistake, I don't see Senator Sanders as being week on equal rights.. At all!

He is, and has been a GREAT ally, and not just for those of us in the GLBT comminity but for all minorities.

I do take exception to the revisionist notion that DADT was a bad thing, or as it was commented on "crumbs". It was a HUGE step in the right direction, and paved the way for the further progress we've had in the last 8 years under yet another great POTUS. The atmosphere that preceded DADT was MUCH worse.

DOMA on the other hand was a shit sandwich. It was foul. It was gong to be passed in that horrible political climate with or without President Clinton's signing. Worse, in preparation for a Presidential Veto, there was a movement, and not a small one, that was pushing and calling for a Constitutional amendment to define marriage as being between 1 man and 1 woman. Did that amendment really have a chance of passing? There's debate on that, however while an amendment wasn't close to a sure thing, with 68% of Americans feeling that it should be defined that way at that time, it was definitely nowhere close to an impossibility. Regardless of if that was President Clintons reasons or not, one thing his signing DOMA into law and not forcing it to undergo a veto override did accomplish was completely diffusing the movement to make it a constitutional amendment. IF it had been made into an amendment during that awful period, it would still be illegal for same sex marriage to exist, and we'd still be a long way off from having the strength of numbers to get an ammendment repealed.