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The gay couple featured in Hillary Clintons 2016 announcement video said Monday that they were so delighted to have been included in the ad that they invited the Democratic presidential contender to their wedding this summer.
Jared Milrad and Nate Johnson, two Democratic campaigners who were filmed in Clintons online launch ad talking about their commitment to each other said in an interview with the Washington Blade that they didnt know they were being filmed for the announcement but were nevertheless ecstatic to have been featured.
When we were first contacted, they basically told us a little bit about what they would be doing and said they were interviewing people going through big changes in life and also said that it was something affiliated with Hillary, but didnt exactly say what it would be, Johnson said.
They just mainly wanted to hear our story about that and our life and decision to get married and how were dealing with that and how excited we are about that, he said.
Milrad told the Blade that he and Johnson were really excited after they saw themselves in the video Sunday. In fact, shortly after the video was posted, Milrad took to Twitter to invite the former Secretary of State to their July 19 wedding in Chicago.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gay-couple-clinton-2016-video-invite-wedding-article-1.2183449
zappaman
(20,606 posts)I read here yesterday that her video was probably full of actors!
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)The suspense must have killed them.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)of DOMA and DADT.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)She's a woman, so she can't have a different opinion than her husband.
Duh.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)I find that shit super annoying. Like her or not, she's an accomplished woman and it's quite easy to find HER opinion on matters like that.
To wit: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/03/18/how-hillary-clinton-evolved-on-gay-marriage/
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Clinton's spokesman points me to the text of her actual questionnaire, in which she distances herself from a central plank of DOMA -- its bar on the federal recognition of same-sex marriages -- but not from the portion which allows states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages from other states.
So this is a central, but not total, repudiation of the act.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Growing as a society and as a person is a good thing.