Hillary Clinton opposed a State Department effort to discard the words “mother” and “father” in favor of more LGBT-inclusive language.
“Who made the decision that State will not use the terms ‘mother and father’s and instead substitute parent one and parent two’?” an angry Clinton demanded in a January 2011 email. “I’m not defending that decision, which I disagree with and knew nothing about…”
“I could live with letting people in non-traditional families choose another description so long as we retained the presumption of mother and father,” she added.
The email was released in the latest batch of Clinton communications the State Department made public.
Clinton had opposed same-sex marriage for much of her political career, up through her first run for president in 2008, but embraced it before the first Supreme Court ruling against a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by her husband.
Clinton worried about the backlash she would get from House Republicans for the State Department making this change.
“We need to address this today or we will be facing a huge Fox-generated media storm led by Palin et-al,” Clinton wrote.
