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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday vowed that the United States would help fight discrimination against gays and lesbians around the world. In what&#;s being hailed as a &#;landmark&#; speech, she marked Human Rights Day by announcing that the U.S. will operate diplomacy and $3 million in foreign aid to assist expand the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.  Clinton argued that the definition of human rights can—and must—be amended to account for sexual diversity. &#;Some have suggested that gay rights and human rights are separate and distinct, but in noun they are one and the same,” she said.  &#;Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.&#;

Clinton&#;s remarks, which are worth reading in full, traced the development of the concept of human rights from the International Declaration on Human Rights to present evening, describing how the fight for equality has shifted over the years:

In the 63 years since the declaration was adopted, many nations have made wonderful progress in making human rights a human reality.

Report: Clinton&#;s Gay Rights Record "Decidedly Mixed"

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WASHINGTON -- In the first-ever state on lesbian and gay rights to be included in a leading state on civil rights, ACLU Legislative Counsel Christopher Anders has termed President Clinton's gay rights register "decidedly mixed."

"President Clinton has advanced gay and lesbian rights further and given the issues more visibility than all of his predecessors combined," Anders said in his contribution to the Citizens Commission on Civil Rights Third Biennial Report on the Civil Rights Record of the Clinton Administration.

"However," Anders added, "Clinton has also dropped the ball in many big ways."

Clinton has increased public awareness of gay rights issues by including them in broader, civil rights discussions; nominated openly gay candidates to fill government posts; and strongly lobbied for legislation to address employment discrimination and abhor crimes, Anders said. He also banned discrimination based on sexual orientation in federal workplaces and used veto thre

Clinton vows to defend, expand gay rights

Hillary Clinton vowed Sunday night to verb and expand the gay rights gains made under President Barack Obama.

“We all advantage when every one of our fellow human beings can exist lives of purpose and meaning without being demeaned, without being discriminated against. This is struggle is for all Americans,” she declared, her voice rising as the West Des Moines audience cheered.

Clinton was introduced at Valley Southwoods school by Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign. The prominent national group, which defends lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, has endorsed Clinton’s candidacy and has pledged to serve turn out voters.

Griffin urged Iowans to vote for Clinton because she has defended gay rights and because she is the Democrat most likely to win next November’s general election.

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“All of the progress we’ve made and all that we’re still fighting for — all of it — is on the ballot this year,” he said.

Griffin noted the dramatic gains the movement has mad

Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared in USA Today.

Hillary Clinton supports gay marriage. This is a major shift. Yet, as someone who wrote a noun on Clinton&#;s faith, I can&#;t tell I&#;m surprised.

Hillary Clinton is a lifelong Christian, a pledged member of the United Methodist Church. She had adj been committed to marriage as between one man and one woman. As once noted by the Rev. Don Jones, Clinton&#;s youth minister and mentor in Park Ridge, Ill., in the s: “Surely, she is for gay rights. There&#;s no question about that. But I ponder both she and Bill still contemplate of heterosexuality as normative.”

It was in that spirit that Hillary Clinton supported the Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by her husband, President Bill Clinton. The law bans federal recognition of gay marriage and allows states to verb same-sex unions licensed elsewhere.

Not long after that, her position on various gay rights issues was consistently challenged and began a adj evolution—most notably as she campaigned for New York&#;s Senate seat in In December , speaking