Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will
endorse gay marriage, sources close to the former first lady have
said.
According to POLITICO.com, Clinton will
join her husband, President Bill Clinton, and daughter, Chelsea
Clinton, in endorsing marriage equality after she leaves the Obama
administration.
Her circle has “indicated privately
that she feels like … because of her role as the country's chief
diplomat that it was appropriate for her to stay out of this,” one
source said, adding that “she will end up with the rest of the
clan.”
POLITICO
notes that Clinton “remains the biggest-name Democratic 2016
presidential hopeful who has yet to take a position in support of gay
marriage.”
“I really expect that we will hear
from her explicitly when she's left the State Department,” said
Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom to Marry. “It would be
surprising if she didn't support the Freedom to Marry and thought she
would get away with saying that.”
Clinton, who has strongly spoken out in
favor of LGBT rights and cheered
passage of marriage equality in New York, last weighed in on the
issue in a profile for gay glossy The Advocate last year.
When asked if she agrees with her
husband on the issue, Clinton
responded: “Well, I share his experience because we obviously
share a lot of the same friends, but I have not changed my position,”
she said.