Gabbard family video

[Lotusflower70]

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[True Dough]

1. They should have all

stayed in the CLOSET! The Gabbards that is, not the gay community.

[hlthe2b]

2. well, that's surely not going to reassure the many who are already not fans...

[OnDoutside]

3. Oooh, that's awwwwkward !

[NutmegYankee]

4. I judge people for the choices they made as adults

And not for how they acted under the direction of fundie parents years ago when most politicians didn't support gay marriage.

[FreeState]

8. 2004 she was an adult

She has done nothing since then other than support others bills - she needs to put the work in to reduce stigma and damage she cause LGBT persons- she hasn’t done this because she relieves gay karate is wrong (personally). She’s still a bigot and this gay man will never vote for a bigot.

[NutmegYankee]

11. She has no chance to be nominated.

I only know that fundie parents can really fuck up a kids head. I wonder if she's fully deprogrammed yet. I consider Dick Cheney to be an bad person, but at least he acknowledges his daughters existence and feels for her like a parent should. I have watched fundies disown their gay child and to this day pretend they are dead or were never born. Fundies are the most disgusting creatures in this world.

[PADemD]

17. If Hillary can change her mind, so can Tulsi

https://m.

[LongtimeAZDem]

5. Here's what her aunt reportedly has to say about her:

The Real Tulsi Gabbard

As Representative Tulsi Gabbard’s aunt, it gives me no pleasure to publicly air my doubts regarding my niece’s political agenda, which Kelefa Sanneh describes in his Profile (“Against the Tide,” November 6th). However, I take my role as a citizen seriously, and I would be remiss not to share my concerns. Sanneh raises the issue of Gabbard’s lifelong immersion in the Science of Identity Foundation, an opaque religious organization that she and its founder, Chris Butler, have attempted to reframe as a “resource.” Gabbard’s answer to a basic question about Butler is troubling: despite calling him her “guru dev” (spiritual master) in her own promotional video, she denies that he is more important than any of her other teachers. She also has a notably mixed voting record, and associations that veer from certain progressive causes to the apparent courting of such strongmen as Narendra Modi, Bashar al-Assad, and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (not to mention Trump)—this zigzagging path through positions is vexing. Sanneh’s article walks the fine line of investigation and exposition in a way that points to shadows worthy of further illumination.

Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard

Honolulu, Hawaii

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/letters-from-the-november-20-2017-issue/amp

[NurseJackie]

6. I cannot support her under any circumstances.

[PADemD]

7. When I was 17

The same age as Tulsi was in that video, I thought the Vietnam War was a good idea. As an adult, I have changed my mind.

I’d vote for Tulsi.

Who’s opposition research dug up that video?

[obamanut2012]

9. She was in her 20s, she was not a minor

The video is from 2004, Gabbard is 37. Now, my degree is in History and not math, but 37 minus 14 or 15 is not 17.

[PADemD]

12. The proposed amendment was in 1998.

Tulsi was born in 1981, so she was 17 in 1998.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard

[Cha]

10. The Hawaii LGBT Democratic Caucus calls out Gabbard..

Link to tweet

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"Earlier in Gabbard's career, Jacobin reported that she was anti-choice and in favor of a constitutional amendment that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. She also argued that Democrats "should be representing the views of the people, not a small number of homosexual extremists," per Jacobin.

snip//

This shift in her views, however, was not enough to earn her an endorsement from Hawaii's LGBT Caucus. According to Maui Time Weekly, the caucus did not endorse Gabbard in her 2016 Congressional race, arguing that Gabbard still personally opposed same-sex marriage even if she abstained from taking political action on it. The caucus cited a 2015 interview that Gabbard had done with Ozy, in which she stated that she did not want to emulate a theocratic government “imposing its will” on its people.

https://www.bustle.com/p/tulsi-gabbards-lgbtq-views-have-reportedly-changed-over-time-but-many-say-thats-not-enough-15794044

[Tarheel_Dem]

13. I have the same concerns about Gabbard that I have about Donald Trump. Despite her trying to...

position herself as some populist progressive, I would be concerned that she would be acting on behalf of foreign actors as opposed to our interests.

[R B Garr]

14. Eeewww

Creepy! Bizarre and creepy video. Who would do that, horrible.

[Cha]

16. I realized Tulsi Gabbard was anti-gay, but didn't quite realize how anti-gay she was in the 2000s

Link to tweet

"Earlier in Gabbard's career, Jacobin reported that she was anti-choice and in favor of a constitutional amendment that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. She also argued that Democrats "should be representing the views of the people, not a small number of homosexual extremists," per Jacobin.

snip//

This shift in her views, however, was not enough to earn her an endorsement from Hawaii's LGBT Caucus. According to Maui Time Weekly, the caucus did not endorse Gabbard in her 2016 Congressional race, arguing that Gabbard still personally opposed same-sex marriage even if she abstained from taking political action on it. The caucus cited a 2015 interview that Gabbard had done with Ozy, in which she stated that she did not want to emulate a theocratic government “imposing its will” on its people.

https://www.bustle.com/p/tulsi-gabbards-lgbtq-views-have-reportedly-changed-over-time-but-many-say-thats-not-enough-15794044

She likes that word "extremely". Thank Goodness the LGBT coalition persevered in spite of those like Gabbard.

[jcgoldie]

15. Disturbing

How old was she in this video?