| Copyrighted Image - Owner Name cannot be YouTube - you must say WHO on YouTube () Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Obama and Clinton both opposed marriage equality as late as early 2012. It is a testament to the work of thousands of activists over decades that the political class was pulled towards supporting equality. There is however one prominent politician who did not wait so long to call for full gay equality: Sen. Bernie Sanders. In a letter he published in the early 1970's, when he was a candidate for governor of Vermont from the Liberty Union Party, Sanders invoked freedom to call for the abolition of all laws related to homosexuality. Not only did Sanders call for gay equality and an end to the drug war, he also talked about the need to tax corporations, end unjust overseas wars, heal the environment, and empower working people. If nothing else, Sanders has been extremely consistent. |
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