Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton now says same-sex marriage is a right afforded by the Constitution.
Her position on the issue, which has already evolved over the last couple years, goes further than she has in the past.
Clinton had opposed gay marriage, but said she supported it in a video in 2013 after leaving the State Department following similar proclamations by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
She got a little testy with an NPR interviewer last year who questioned her motives in endorsing gay marriage after first opposing it.
Clinton told Terry Gross that she always viewed marriage as “a matter left to the states and in many of the conversations I and my colleagues and supporters had, I fully endorse the efforts by activists to work state-by-state.”
Today a spokeswoman Adrienne Elrod told Buzzfeed: “Hillary Clinton supports marriage equality and hopes the Supreme Court will come down on the side of same-sex couples being guaranteed that constitutional right.”
That statement matches the position of many Democrats who hope that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of same-sex marriage as a constitutional right when it hears the case later this month.
Her campaign did not immediately respond to questions about Clinton’s stance.
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