The accumulation said its lath of admiral voted absolutely to abutment the above secretary of State.
“All the advance we acquire fabricated as a nation on LGBT adequation — and all the advance we acquire yet to accomplish — is at pale in November,” HRC Admiral Chad Griffin said in a statement.
Griffin acclaimed that abundant strides acquire been fabricated on LGBT rights during the Obama administration, including legalizing gay alliance and catastrophe the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. But he said added charcoal to be done to anticipate bigotry and that Republican candidates for admiral could baffle added advance or even about-face assets if they are elected.
“We are appreciative to endorse Hillary Clinton for president, and acquire that she is the best we can calculation on in November — and every day she occupies the Oval Office,” Griffin said.
Clinton will acquire the endorsement at an accident in Iowa on Sunday.
“I'm accustomed to accept the endorsement of the Human Rights Campaign — the nation’s better alignment alive to accomplish abounding adequation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans,” she said in a statement.
Clinton apprenticed to action for access of legislation that would alter the Civil Rights Act to cover accoutrement barring bigotry based on animal acclimatization and gender identity.
“Too abounding LGBT Americans still face bigotry — in employment, in housing, in education, in bloom affliction — because of who they are or who they love,” she said.
HRC said that it expects the pro-equality vote will be “larger, stronger, and added activated than at any point in history,” and it has already started acclimation associates and supporters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
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