article_snippet.sent: Many gays and lesbians point to Hillary Clinton's 2011 speech in Switzerland as Secretary of State in which Hillary Clinton declared: 'Human rights are gay rights and gay rights are human rights.'
article_snippet.sent: However, in Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign, Hillary Clinton did not support gay marriage.
article_snippet.sent: It took Hillary Clinton five years - to publicly say that Hillary Clinton supported gay marriage.
article_snippet.sent: President Barack Obama publicly announced President Barack Obama support for gay marriage nearly a year earlier in March 2012.
article_snippet.sent: The Economist called Hillary Clinton's stance on gay marriage, 'cautious to the point of cowardice.' '
article_snippet.sent: It is not convincing to argue, as Hillary Clinton supporters do, that Hillary Clinton is only free to make Hillary Clinton views known now that Hillary Clinton has stepped down as America's chief diplomat.
article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton successor at the State Department, John Kerry, and has not been stoned as a blasphemer on any of Her successor at the State Department, John Kerry stops around the world to date,' the magazine's US columnist wrote.
article_snippet.sent: Critics also point out that as First Lady, Hillary Clinton did not oppose Hillary Clinton husband signing 'Don't Ask Don't Tell,' which banned being openly gay in the military or the Defense of Marriage Act, which banned gay marriage at the federal level.
highlights_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton opposed gay marriage until 2013 - a year after Obama came out in support .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton also did not publicly object to passage of
highlights_snippet.sent: Don't Ask Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act as First Lady under Hillary Clinton husband's administration .