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  • 2016-07-30 (xsd:date)
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  • Hillary Clinton: 'Marriage Is Always Between a Man and a Woman' (en)
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  • As former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton edged closer to the Democratic Party's nomination in 2016, an image macro reflecting her views about same-sex marriage, as she expressed them back in 2000, spiked in popularity. Using an old photograph of Clinton and including the hashtag #tbt (typically throwback Thursday), the image macro quoted Clinton as saying: I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman. The quote was fairly easy to authenticate, given the attention now paid to Clinton's evolved stance on marriage equality. A 2013 USA Today article provided a longer version of the same remark: Clinton's response to an August 2007 question had her expressing support for civil unions but still not same-sex marriage: In 2011, when the state of New York legalized same-sex marriage, Clinton (then serving as secretary of state) spoke to the crowd at a gay-pride celebration and hailed the historic vote in New York [that] gives such visibility and credibility to everything that so many of you have done over so many years. Although she proclaimed that I’ve always believed that we would make progress because we were on the right side of equality and justice, Clinton remained officially on the record as opposing same-sex marriage. Clinton's full flop on the issue didn't occur until March 2013, when she openly embraced marriage equality. Political science professor Paul Kengor noted at the time that Hillary Clinton had finally endorsed gay marriage, stating that he believed she had undergone an honest shift: The mechanics of Clinton's evolving position on the issue came up during a 2014 NPR segment between Clinton and host Terry Gross which was widely described as adversarial or tense, in which Clinton strongly denied she had masked a long-held pro-same-sex marriage viewpoint for political purposes: As Gross pressed Clinton to reveal whether it was her personal viewpoint or merely her political stance that had changed, Clinton side-stepped the question: Gross pressed the issue, and Clinton provided a firmer answer as to why she changed her position in 2013: (en)
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