Subject: Re: Politico on Marriage Equality
From: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
To: Karen Finney <[email-masked]>
Cc: Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>, hrcrapid <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:02:24 -0700
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great

Adrienne K. Elrod
Spokesperson
Hillary For America
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@adrienneelrod

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Karen Finney <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> Great point - thanks
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Apr 21, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
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> This is well done.  Worth noting the way she spoke in the past tense
> during the NPR interview?
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> On Apr 21, 2015, at 12:49 PM, Karen Finney <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
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> Dylan Byers has now taken this up and challenging Sent from my iPhone
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> On the record, I'd like to repeat what we said last week:
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> "Hillary Clinton supports marriage equality and hopes the Supreme Court
> will come down on the side of same-sex couples being guaranteed that
> constitutional right."
>
> On background - I'd propose to give him what we've given to others:
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> Dylan - here's the full context of how we view this.  While she has
> acknowledged that her own positions have evolved over time, she is and has
> been a supporter of marriage equality as a matter of policy and a matter of
> law, as she said in 2013. Hillary is glad that 37 states now have marriage
> equality, largely as a result of federal judges finding that a
> constitutional right, and she hopes the Supreme Court will take the
> opportunity to make marriage equality the law of the land.
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> In 2013 she joined the effort in support of marriage equality with a video
> for HRC:
> http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-announces-support-for-same-sex-marriage
>
> In that video she said she supports marriage equality as a matter of
> policy and law. : "That's why I support marriage for lesbian and gay
> couples. I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law."
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> Last week the specific question asked was whether or not she believed
> marriage equality is a constitutional right, one of our spokespeople gave
> the following quote: "Hillary Clinton supports marriage equality and hopes
> the Supreme Court will come down on the side of same-sex couples being
> guaranteed that constitutional right."Supporting it as a constitutional
> right is a matter of law.
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> During the 2014 interview with NPR, she was talking about the impact of
> activism in the states, and her support for that activism moving the issue
> forward at the state level  “I fully endorse the efforts by activists who
> work state by state and in fact that is what is working.”  And again, she'd
> already made it clear in 2013 that she personally supports marriage
> equality as a matter of policy and law. In other words she supported the
> idea that it might take time for each state to come around. But that
> eventually we would need a federal constitutional ruling -- she always
> believed that was the appropriate outcome.
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>  She also noted that once she was no longer Secretary of State and able
> to comment on domestic political issues she announced her full support for
> marriage equality.
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> A few days after the NPR interview she re-itereated her support during a
> CNN town hall: “I made a very clear statement when I got out of the State
> Department.  I was free to comment on domestic political issues that I
> fully support marriage equality.”
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> I'd also note that t the Obama administration itself never announced its
> support for a constitutional right to marry on equal protection grounds
> until a month ago when it filed the brief in the SCOTUS case that HRC was
> asked about it. Prior to that, DOJ had only argued that bans on same-sex
> marriage should be subject to heightened scrutiny. Yet no one says DOJ
> flip-flopped when it endorsed an even stronger position last month - it was
> viewed as a natural extention of its previous positions in support of
> same-sex marriage.
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