Since leaving the State Department, Clinton has made a series of statements on the marriage issue. In announcing her support for marriage equality in a video posted on March 13, 2013, she said of LGBT people, “They are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship. That includes marriage. That’s why I support marriage for lesbian and gay couples. I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law.”
A little more than a year later, Clinton was non-committal on the issue to NPR’s Terry Gross.
In June 2014, Clinton told Gross, “I fully endorse the efforts by activists to work state-by-state. In fact, that is what is working.” Later, she reiterated that point, saying that, after she left her post as secretary of state, “I was able to very quickly announce that I was fully in support of gay marriage and that it is now continuing to proceed state-by-state.”
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