Hillary Clinton Fumed About Changing Passports For Same-Sex Parents In 2011

[silvershadow]

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.

“I’m 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, Clinton’s 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]

1. "I'm not defending that decision" - yeah, that's a how a real ally talks.

We can hardly wait for her to "get more things done".

[glowing]

2. Guess no one at Fox noticed... They might now..lol.

[peacebird]

3. Some "friend" of LGBT folk...

[Sky Masterson]

4. Integrity!

Or Not.

[tularetom]

5. Well, I for one am eager to vote for a presidential candidate who adopts policies...

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]

6. In her defense, who could have foreseen Palin becoming irrelevant today?

[hobbit709]

7. You can do the politically expedient thing, or you can do the right thing despite the consequences.

But Hillary cares more for image than her taking a stand on the right thing to do.

[bigwillq]

8. Another one that's never been a fierce advocate for the cause.

She only says or does things on the issue when it's political convenient.

[kristopher]

9. Now that's the Hillary we've all come to know and ....

[stillwaiting]

10. I remember this and a lot more. I'm gay. Why she has gay supporters I have no clue. nt

[Agschmid]

11. That's it! I'm not voting for her!

[Warren Stupidity]

13. transgender rights are amusing?

[Agschmid]

14. I said I wasn't voting for her.

[Bad Thoughts]

12. Clinton: backstop against progressives

... but never really stands up to neocons.

[JudyM]

15. Hm, intereresting. Apparently more concerned about the opposition than her constituents.