Hillary Clton wasted no time -optg today’s historic Supreme Court lg on gay marriage as a promotnal vice for her printial n. “Proud to celebrate,” Clton clared on Twter, spe the fact that relatively recently she thought same sex marriage should rema illegal.
Contents:
- HILLARY CLTON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PROBLEM
- REMEMBER WHEN HILLARY CLTON WAS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE?
- HILLARY CLTON’S GLOBAL LEGACY ON GAY RIGHTS
HILLARY CLTON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PROBLEM
Sixteen years ago, Hillary Clton clearly articulated an anti-gay marriage posn. Now, she uldn't be a more full-throated supporter. * hillary clinton lgbt *
As secretary of state, Hillary advanced LGBT rights abroad and enforced stronger anti-discrimatn regulatns wh the State Department, clarg on the global stage that “gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.
On the ternatnal stage, however, and keepg wh the tle of her memoir, Hard Choic, Clton boldly asserted Geneva 2011: "Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.
But there are others who clare that homosexualy is an afont to civilizatn, that children mt be protected om s perceived rptive force and that homosexualy should be a punishable, crimal offense. In Rsia, Print Vladmir Put passed the anti-gay propaganda law a year ago this month, makg a crime to publicly support gay rights or acknowledge same-sex relatnships to a mor. In Uganda, Print Yoweri Mevi passed the far worse Anti-Homosexualy Act Febary of this year, makg homosexualy such an egreg crime (mandg life imprisonment some s) that anyone found "aidg and abettg" a homosexual (as rentg them an apartment), knowgly performg a same-sex marriage or not reportg a gay person to the thori is mtg a crime as well.
REMEMBER WHEN HILLARY CLTON WAS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE?
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When she was Secretary of State, Clton heard foreign lears exprs beliefs that children were beg "erced" to homosexualy and "they didn't want children beg abed.
" What is abive, however, are laws that crimalize homosexualy and ny human rights bee of sexual or genr orientatn. Sce the passage of the Anti-Homosexualy Act, vlence agast gays and lbians has exponentially creased -- more than 750 percent om reported asslts 2013. Elsewhere the world, reports of anti-gay vlence are also creasg, an apparent backlash agast advanc equaly.
In Stland, homophobic hate crim were up 22 percent. Last fall I reported on the horrific attack of Stt Jon New Glasgow, Nova Stia, one of the gay-iendlit rners of the world. Jt a few days ago Vienna's first openly gay polician, Ulrike Lunacek, was allegedly attacked wh acid at Vienna's pri para.
HILLARY CLTON’S GLOBAL LEGACY ON GAY RIGHTS
Clton exprsed to Terry Gross her tratn wh lears who nied the existence of homosexualy their untri and clared "all an ventn and export om the Wt.
" This may seem prepostero (not a sgle gay person your entire untry?!
In 2007, speakg at Columbia Universy, Iranian Print Mahmoud Ahmadejad said, "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals.