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Friend: Bill Clinton warned about Hillary’s ‘discomfort’ with gay rights in 1999
Bill Clinton confided to a close friend in 1999 Hillary Clinton was ‘put off’ by LGBTI rights, according to an audio recording obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Taylor Branch, who shared an apartment with Bill in the 70s, wrote a history of Bill’s White House years based on an audio diary of their conversations.
According to a 10 June 1999 recording, Branch had been interviewing Bill at the White House when the then president stepped out to take a phone call from Hillary.
When he returned, he seemed worried that his wife’s ‘discomfort’ with LGBTI rights would hurt her 2000 Senate campaign, and expressed regret over signing the Defense Against Marriage Act.
‘[Bill] came in and he said, “You know I’ve had much more contact in my life with gay people than Hillary has,”‘ Branch says in the recording.
‘He said, “I think she’s really a little put off by some of this stuff.”‘
Branch said Bill generally supported ‘the gay agenda right down the line.’ But he told Branch that ‘Hillary, emotionally speaking, still finds the issue harder to swallow than I do. And that it could be difficult for her in New York politics, how far she’ll be asked to go.’
Branch added that Bill was ‘essentially I think saying that Hillary had kind of a conservative religious temperament, and was not likely to be comfortable around gay people who were kind of acting out, or pushing her to the limit. She did have general discomfort.’
Hillary endorsed civil unions during her 2000 Senate campaign, but not gay marriage. She only publicly come out in favor of gay marriage in 2013.
Listen to the recording below:
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