Hillary Clinton attempted to block Obama reforms to children’s passports, threatening to kill plans to replace ‘mother and father’ fields with ‘parent one and parent two’.

The former Secretary of State has been compelled to release thousands of emails that were sent via her private email server after a security scandal.

One of the messages released this week shows that while serving as President Obama’s Secretary of State in 2011, Clinton fumed at a decision to allow gay-friendly children’s passports.

A story at the time suggested that the traditional ‘mother’ and ‘father’ categories would be adapted to cater for same-sex parents, but an email shows she ranted at her staff – and even said she would refuse to stand up for the decision in congress.

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