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Related: About this forumHillary Clinton Fumed About Changing Passports For Same-Sex Parents In 2011
09/30/2015 09:49 pm ET | Updated Oct 01, 2015
WASHINGTON Hillary Clinton was furious about a 2011 State Department decision to replace the words mother and father with gender-neutral terms on U.S. passport applications, warning of the wrath of Sarah Palin, according to newly released emails.
Who made the decision that State will not use the terms mother and father and instead substitute parent one and two? Clinton wrote in an email to staff on Jan. 8, 2011. The email was released Wednesday by the State Department as part of an ongoing dump of emails that Clinton sent from a personal account during her time as secretary of state.
Im not defending that decision, which I disagree w and knew nothing about, in front of this Congress. I could live w letting people in nontraditional families choose another descriptor so long as we retained the presumption of mother and father, she wrote. We need to address this today or we will be facing a huge Fox-generated media storm led by [Sarah] Palin et al.
Cheryl Mills, Clintons chief of staff at the time, responded, Reaching out to folks to find out.
more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-same-sex-passports_us_560c68e6e4b076812700bf06
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)We can hardly wait for her to "get more things done".
glowing
(12,233 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)Sky Masterson
(5,240 posts)Or Not.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)based on what Sarah Fucking Palin thinks.
"We can't stop fracking, Palin will be pissed"
"We better bomb Iran or we'll have to listen to a ration of crap from Palin"
Yep, that's the kind of decisiveness I want from my president.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)But Hillary cares more for image than her taking a stand on the right thing to do.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)She only says or does things on the issue when it's political convenient.
kristopher
(29,798 posts)stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Bad Thoughts
(2,541 posts)... but never really stands up to neocons.