Watch Christine Quinn Shut Down Corey Lewandowski's “Really Rich” Attempt To Attack Clinton On LGBT Equality
Written by Media Matters Staff
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From the October 11 edition of CNN's New Day:
COREY LEWANDOWKI: Hillary Clinton has gone out in those emails and said that, two things. Number one, we don't want to talk about the health records. For number two, the Defense Of Marriage Act, which defines marriage between a man and a woman, something I think Chris is very knowledgeable about, and Hillary Clinton has said that she's going to support that Defense Of Marriage Act. Now, that's a vast change from where she stands today with the LBGT community. And all of a sudden she doesn’t --
ALYISN CAMEROTA (HOST): OK, I want to talk about that. Look, I see you flashing your bling at me. Very impressive.
CHRISTINE QUINN: Thank you. My late mother-in-law’s.
CAMEROTA: And didn't you feel that she was very late to the support for same-sex marriage, and this reveals that?
QUINN: First, let me say it is rich to have Corey, given the platform of the Republican Party, which does not support marriage equality, which supports conversion therapy that we know --
CAMEROTA: I get it. We're talking about Hillary Clinton. Focus on Hillary Clinton.
QUINN: If you're going to say something, let's be honest about where you're at. Do I wish that Hillary Clinton and a lot of other Democrats had come to marriage equality more quickly? Without a doubt. I'm never going to say that's not true. Of course that's true. But I'm also going to tell you, you know, when I told my father, who's now 90 that I was a lesbian in the '90s, he said never talk about that again. And then he ended up marching in gay pride parade after gay pride parade. It takes people some time. I've had the honor of sitting across from Hillary Clinton and having long personal conversations -- and I was not easy on her -- about LGBT issues, marriage equality, at the time domestic partnership.
CAMEROTA: And did you feel then that she truly didn't support it, or that it was a poll-tested position?
QUINN: I felt like she was, as a lot of people have, struggling with it, evolving. It was kind of a new concept for her. We were then -- a lot of our conversations were about domestic partnership. She shared really a turning point for her, this couple, two men who lived near her parents. One was a nurse. They became her surrogate children to her parents and cared for her father as he was dying. And that's what changes people and makes them open their minds, are those personal experiences, which sadly the Republican ticket has apparently not had.
Previously:
Despite The Most Anti-LGBT Platform Ever, Pundits Tout Trump As A “Champion” Of LGBT Causes