Clinton: LGBT rights a priority

Hillary Clinton’s speech on Saturday was a welcomed laundry list of promises to LGBT voters who she’s wooing for her presidential campaign, but it might also have reassured them about any lingering doubt that she’s truly their ally.

Progress is not secure, Clinton said, “especially when you turn on the TV and you see a Republican candidate for president literally standing in the courthouse door in Kentucky, calling on people to join him in resisting the Supreme Court ruling….”

Meanwhile, Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina says the government should focus on enforcing laws that are already in place before jumping to add new ones.

Gun control is one of the few issues in which Clinton has a more left-leaning record than Sanders, who hails from a hunting state with a large contingent of gun owners.

Such tepid reactions have led Clinton, once a commanding favorite for the nomination, into a fall campaign in which she will have competition, be it from Vermont independent Sen. He offered support for the Democratic candidate’s focus on addressing income inequality and other economic issues. He has ordered a study aimed at ending one of the last gender- or sexuality-based barriers to military service. “It is wrong and we need to make every politician who signs with them, to look into the eyes of parents whose children have been murdered and explain why they listened to the gun lobbyists instead”. “We took them on in the ’90s”.

Clinton will also say she supports legislation to prohibit all people with histories of domestic abuse from buying or possessing guns, since current laws don’t apply to people in dating relationships or convicted stalkers. Clinton said Saturday that the court’s decision could be overturned, should a Republican win the White House next year and appoint conservative justices.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday will detail new proposals aimed at closing gun sale loopholes and holding accountable those who sell guns for violence committed with those weapons. In 2008, the group largely stayed out of the primary fight, siding with then-Illinois Sen. “I was not raised to even imagine this”, she said. Even though he has said, “If you passed the strongest gun control legislation tomorrow, I don’t think it will have a profound effect”.

The upgraded records belong to as many as 14,000 men and women, she said, people “who were forced out of the military for being gay”. As secretary of state, Clinton said at a 2011 conference in Geneva that “gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights”. She remains ahead of Sanders and Biden in a number of other measures, such as campaign cash and party endorsements, although Sanders’ fundraising in the past three months fell just shy of Clinton’s.

But as recently as a year ago, she was still struggling to explain her switch in position. Including those venues as “in the business” of selling firearms under federal regulation would require sellers at gun shows and online to conduct background checks on potential buyers.