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Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) casts herself as a moderate on gay marriage before mainstream audiences, but in a Saturday address to a pro-gay lobby group she promised that if elected President in 2008 she would secure a range of gay rights victories, including adoption for same-sex couples.

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and trangender civil rights organization, hosted the event and posted a video of Hillary’s address online although Clinton’s staff kept the stop off her public schedule.

In the past, Hillary has dodged explaining her position on gay marriage. In June 2006 she voted for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, but enacted a personal policy of “don’t tell” in talking about her vote.

In her speech, she called the Federal Marriage Amendment that failed the Senate last year to strictly define marriage as an act between a man and a woman “wedge politics at its worst.”

“It [FMA] was mean-spirited,” she told activists. “It was against the entire forward movement of American history.”

Hillary vowed to promote what many consider to be the most radical component of the gay agenda: adoption rights for same-sex couples.

“I have long supported civil unions,” she said. “We’re going to make sure that nothing stands in the way of loving couples, gay or straight, to adopt children.” Read the rest here

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