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• REMEMBER WHEN HILLARY CLTON WAS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE?
• HILLARY CLTON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PROBLEM
• HILLARY CLTON CLAR 'GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS'
• HILLARY CLTON SHOULD BE A GAY RIGHTS IN—SO WHY ISN’T SHE?
• HILLARY, ‘THE FAY’ AND UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY CHRISTIAN MAFIAHATE HYPOCRISY "THE FAY" IS BEHD UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY BILL AND HAS AMERIN TI WH RICK WARREN, CONGRS, AND FORTUNE 500 CEOS.SALLY KOHNUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 4:47PM EDT / PUBLISHED FEB. 25, 2014 5:45AM EST BEN CURTIS/GETTYTHE PRINT OF UGANDA HAS JT SIGNED TO LAW EXTREME ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN. IN ADDN TO IMPRISONG ANYONE WHO UNSELS OR REACH OUT TO THE GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR MUNY UGANDA, THE LAW TABLISH A CRIME OF “AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY” WHICH CLU ACTS WHERE ONE PERSON IS FECTED WH HIV, “SERIAL OFFENRS,” AND SEX WH MORS. “AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY” IS PUNISHED WH LIFE PRISON. A PREV VERSN OF THE LAW, AMEND AFTER WORLDWI PROTTS, PROSCRIBED THE ATH PENALTY.THE LEGISLATN WAS WRTEN AND PROMOTED BY DAVID BAHATI, A MEMBER OF THE UGANDAN PARLIAMENT. ACRDG TO SCHOLAR AND WRER JEFF SHARLET, BAHATI—WHO HAS SAID HE WANTS TO “KILL EVERY LAST GAY PERSON”— IS A RE MEMBER OF A SECRETIVE WORK OF AMERIN EVANGELIL CHRISTIANS LLED “THE FAY.” THE FAY SE S AGGRSIVE, WORLDWI EVANGELISM EMBODIED THE SAYG, “J DIDN’T E TO TAKE SIS; HE ME TO TAKE OVER.” THE ANIZATN HAS ALSO REFERRED TO SELF—PROUDLY—AS “THE CHRISTIAN MAFIA.” FOR OVER 75 YEARS, S GOAL HAS BEEN THE “NSECRATN” OF AMERI TO GOD. BUT FACG FEAT THE AMERIN CULTURE WARS, THE FAY AND S ILK LOOKED ELSEWHERE—CLUDG TO UGANDA. THE FAY ANIZ THE NATNAL PRAYER BREAKFAST THE U.S. BAHATI ANIZED THE UGANDAN NATNAL PRAYER BREAKFAST—AS WELL AS OVERSEEG A STUNT LEARSHIP PROGRAM UGANDA TO WHICH THE FAY HAS NTRIBUTED LNS OF DOLLARS. ACRDG TO DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE FAY’S WORK AI, THE ANIZATN’S STRATEGY IS “A CONGRSMAN AND/OR SENATOR OM THE UNED STAT WILL BEIEND THE LEAR OF ANOTHER UNTRY AND TELL HIM/HER HOW J AND HIS TEACHGS WILL HELP HIS UNTRY AND S POOR … AND TO TEACH THEM HOW TO LIVE, WHAT TO THK AND WHAT TO SAY.” SENATOR JAM INHOFE (R-OK) IS THE FAY’S MISSNARY UGANDA. SEN. INHOFE HAS TRAVELED TO AI AT LEAST 20 TIM SCE 1999, AT A ST OF AT LEAST $187,000 TO TAXPAYERS (NOT CLUDG THE ST OF ARY AIRCRAFT) FOR WHAT THE SENATOR SCRIBED AS “A J THG.” IN UGANDA, INHOFE ATTEND BAHATI’S UGANDAN PRAYER BREAKFASTS AND VED BAHATI TO THE UNED STAT THREE TIM. INHOFE, WHO ONCE BOASTED OF BEG “PROUD” THAT THERE WAS NOT A SGLE GAY RELATNSHIP THE “RERD HISTORY OF OUR FAY,” ALSO BOASTED THAT HE “ADOPTED” UGANDA. AND YET SEN. INHOFE HAS NIED KNOWG BAHATI AND, EVENTUALLY, RELUCTANTLY, NMNED THE UNTRY’S ANTI-GAY LAW. JT AFTER PARLIAMENT PASSED THE LAW DECEMBER 2013, BAHATI POSED FOR A PICTURE WH MART SSEMPA, A UGANDAN PASTOR WHO WAS ANOTHER LEADG FORCE BEHD THE ANTI-GAY LAW. SSEMPA HAD BEEN A LEADG FORCE THE ABSTENCE-ONLY PH UGANDA, FUND AGGRSIVELY BY THE BH ADMISTRATN, WHICH HAD THE PERVERSE (BUT NOT UNSURPRISG) EFFECT OF REVERSG UGANDA’S EARLY PROGRS STEMMG THE SPREAD OF HIV. SSEMPA, WHO HAS SPOKEN OUT AGAST NDOMS, ONCE SAID, “WE ARE PROMOTG ABSTENCE BEE UGANDA IS UNR ATTACK OM AN AGENDA DRIVEN BY HOMOSEXUALS AND WTERN EXPERTS”—TH LKG ALL HIS CSAS. ONE OF SSEMPA’S KEY MENTORS? PASTOR RICK WARREN, LEAR OF THE EVANGELIL SADDLEBACK MEGA-CHURCH CALIFORNIA. UNTIL RECENTLY, SSEMPA WAS A EQUENT GUT AT WARREN’S CHURCH, CLUDG AT A 2005 NFERENCE ON AIDS WHERE WARREN HAD SSEMPA LEAD A SEMAR ON AIDS PREVENTN AS WELL AS LIVER A KEYNOTE SPEECH. A YEAR LATER, AT ANOTHER SADDLEBACK AIDS SEMAR, WARREN’S WIFE TRODUCED SSEMPA, SAYG, “YOU ARE BY BROTHER, MART, AND I LOVE YOU.” RICK WARREN, WHO HAS PERSONALLY SAID GAY MARRIAGE IS “EQUIVALENT” TO CT, PEDOPHILIA AND POLYGAMY AND SAID THAT GAY PEOPLE ARE “EVIL” AND HAVE “CHRIST-O-PHOBIA,” AFTER SIGNIFINT PRSURE EVENTUALLY SEVERED TI WH SSEMPA AND SPOKE OUT AGAST UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY LAW.IN 2008, PRINTIAL NDIDATE BARACK OBAMA APPEARED A FOM HOSTED BY WARREN AT SADDLEBACK CHURCH, WHICH OBAMA NOUNCED MARRIAGE EQUALY. OBAMA ALSO SAID, “I LOVE THE MISTRI THAT ARE TAKG PLACE HERE AT SADDLEBACK.” AFTER HIS ELECTN, PRINT OBAMA SPARKED OUTRAGE WHEN HE VED RICK WARREN TO LIVER THE NVOTN AT HIS FIRST GURATN. LAST WEEK, PRINT OBAMA RELEASED A STATEMENT OPPOSG THE UGANDA BILL.DOZENS OF MEMBERS OF CONGRS, SEVERAL FORTUNE 500 CEOS, GENERALS AND AT LEAST ONE SUPREME COURT JTICE ARE MEMBERS OF “THE FAY,” THE RIGHT-WG EVANGELIL MISSN SUPPORTG BAHATI AS WELL AS UGANDA’S PRINT YOWERI MEVENI. SEN. JOHN ENSIGN (R-NV), SEN. JIM DEMT (R-SC), SEN. TOM COBURN (R-OK) AND REP. BART STUPAK (D-MI) AMONG OTHERS HAVE LIVED WHAT’S KNOWN AS “C STREET,” THE FAY’S SUBSIDIZED LODGG WASHGTON, DC. HILLARY CLTON HAS BEEN ACTIVE WH FAY PRAYER GROUPS SCE SHE WAS FIRST LADY. IN HER MEMOIR, LIVG HISTORY, CLTON SCRIBED THE FAY LEAR DOUG COE AS “A UNIQUE PRENCE WASHGTON: A GENUELY LOVG SPIRUAL MENTOR AND GUI TO ANYONE, REGARDLS OF PARTY OR FAH, WHO WANTS TO EPEN HIS OR HER RELATNSHIP WH GOD.”WHEN THE ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN WAS FIRST TRODUCED UGANDA, THE NEW YORK TIM WROTE, “YOU N’T PREACH HATE AND NOT ACCEPT RPONSIBILY FOR THE WAY THAT HATE IS MANIFTED.” JAM INHOFE AND RICK WARREN NOT ONLY PREACHED ANTI-GAY HATRED WH THEIR OWN WORDS BUT WRAPPED THEIR POLIL AND STUTNAL ARMS AROUND DAVID BAHATI AND MART SSEMPA AND OTHERS WHO HAVE TAKEN HATRED TO S UGLY, BUT FOREEABLE, NCLN UGANDA. INHOFE AND WARREN ARE RPONSIBLE FOR THE WAY THAT HATE IS MANIFTED. MOREOVER, AMERIN POLIL FIGUR WHO HAVE PROUDLY ASSOCIATED WH THE FAY AND WH RICK WARREN ARE CULPABLE AS WELL. THEY NNOT FEIGN IGNORANCE AT THE END OF A JOURNEY THAT WAS UGLY ALL ALONG. UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY LAW IS NOT JT AN TERNATNAL DISGRACE. IT IS AN AMERIN DISGRACE. AND THE AMERIN RELIG AND POLIL FIGUR WHO PLAYED A ROLE SPREADG VIC HOMOPHOBIA UGANDA, WHETHER ACTIVELY OR BY TURNG A BLD EYE, SHOULD DO MORE THAN JT NOUNCE THE UNTRY’S LAW. THEY SHOULD NOUNCE THEIR OWN ROLE FACILATG . SALLY KOHN
• HILLARY CLTON SUGGTS REPUBLINS LIKE PUT BEE HE’S ANTI-GAY
• HILLARY CLTON’S CLAIM THAT DOMA HAD TO BE ENACTED TO STOP AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTUTN
• HILLARY CLTON HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE GAY RIGHTS HISTORY. SHE REFED.
• HILLARY CLTON’S GAY RIGHTS EVOLUTN

REMEMBER WHEN HILLARY CLTON WAS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE?

So ’s fair to say that Hillary Clton has had a longstandg opposn to gay marriage—eher that, or she was too aaid to speak tthfully about her nvictns for polil reasons, which is really jt as bad.

HILLARY CLTON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PROBLEM

October 2006: Clton told a group of gay elected officials that she would support same-sex marriage New York if a future ernor and Legislature chose to enact such a law.

Augt 2007: In a Democratic primary bate sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign and LOGO Network (a gay-oriented TV statn) Clton was asked "What is at the heart of your opposn to same-sex marriage? Hillary Clton didn't rea om supportg same-sex marriage for polil reasons—before last year, she earntly believed that marriage equaly should be nied to gays and lbians.

HILLARY CLTON CLAR 'GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS'

* The d tensn stemmed om persistent qutng as Clton obfted on an issue that uld damage her chanc a 2016 primary but is relatively unlikely to hurt her a ntt agast a Republin, given that her aln is so much stronger on gay rights than the opposn. Would the subset of Democrats who thought 2008 opposn to gay marriage should prevent a man om beg CEO 2013 really support the 2015 printial mpaign of a woman who openly opposed gay marriage until last year?

There is also rentment om gays who feel that the Cltons wronged them the Sullivan's perspective is stctive:She was the send most powerful person an admistratn a cril era for gay rights.

Clton also left gay service-members the lurch, doublg the rate of their discharg om the ary, and signed DOMA, the high watermark of anti-gay legislatn Amerin history.

HILLARY CLTON SHOULD BE A GAY RIGHTS IN—SO WHY ISN’T SHE?

I was edor of TNR for five years of the Cltons, aggrsively wrg and publishg articl favor of marriage equaly and ary service, and saw the Cltons’ irratn wh and hostily to gay activists up close. Fally, there is wispread amnia among Democrats more broadly, who reflexively assume that Hillary Clton has of urse supported gay marriage her heart of hearts for years. In liberal circl, now seems impossible to have red eply about human rights, to have red about gay rights, and to have objected to gay marriage, even though that was the exact posn of almost all liberals very recently.

Those who only joed the ph for gay marriage 2013 after spendg years fendg DOMA were, que obvly, "ls mted" to gay equaly than those who spent years or s urgg marriage equaly. GROSS: You know, I'm sayg, I'm sorry, I jt want to clarify what I was sayg, I was sayg that you maybe really believed this all along, you know, believed gay marriage all along, but felt for polil reasons Ameri wasn't ready yet and you uldn't say .

This was an credibly new and important ia that people on the ont l of the gay rights movement began to talk about and slowly but surely nvced others of the rightns of that posn.

HILLARY, ‘THE FAY’ AND UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY CHRISTIAN MAFIAHATE HYPOCRISY "THE FAY" IS BEHD UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY BILL AND HAS AMERIN TI WH RICK WARREN, CONGRS, AND FORTUNE 500 CEOS.SALLY KOHNUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 4:47PM EDT / PUBLISHED FEB. 25, 2014 5:45AM EST BEN CURTIS/GETTYTHE PRINT OF UGANDA HAS JT SIGNED TO LAW EXTREME ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN. IN ADDN TO IMPRISONG ANYONE WHO UNSELS OR REACH OUT TO THE GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR MUNY UGANDA, THE LAW TABLISH A CRIME OF “AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY” WHICH CLU ACTS WHERE ONE PERSON IS FECTED WH HIV, “SERIAL OFFENRS,” AND SEX WH MORS. “AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY” IS PUNISHED WH LIFE PRISON. A PREV VERSN OF THE LAW, AMEND AFTER WORLDWI PROTTS, PROSCRIBED THE ATH PENALTY.THE LEGISLATN WAS WRTEN AND PROMOTED BY DAVID BAHATI, A MEMBER OF THE UGANDAN PARLIAMENT. ACRDG TO SCHOLAR AND WRER JEFF SHARLET, BAHATI—WHO HAS SAID HE WANTS TO “KILL EVERY LAST GAY PERSON”— IS A RE MEMBER OF A SECRETIVE WORK OF AMERIN EVANGELIL CHRISTIANS LLED “THE FAY.” THE FAY SE S AGGRSIVE, WORLDWI EVANGELISM EMBODIED THE SAYG, “J DIDN’T E TO TAKE SIS; HE ME TO TAKE OVER.” THE ANIZATN HAS ALSO REFERRED TO SELF—PROUDLY—AS “THE CHRISTIAN MAFIA.” FOR OVER 75 YEARS, S GOAL HAS BEEN THE “NSECRATN” OF AMERI TO GOD. BUT FACG FEAT THE AMERIN CULTURE WARS, THE FAY AND S ILK LOOKED ELSEWHERE—CLUDG TO UGANDA. THE FAY ANIZ THE NATNAL PRAYER BREAKFAST THE U.S. BAHATI ANIZED THE UGANDAN NATNAL PRAYER BREAKFAST—AS WELL AS OVERSEEG A STUNT LEARSHIP PROGRAM UGANDA TO WHICH THE FAY HAS NTRIBUTED LNS OF DOLLARS. ACRDG TO DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE FAY’S WORK AI, THE ANIZATN’S STRATEGY IS “A CONGRSMAN AND/OR SENATOR OM THE UNED STAT WILL BEIEND THE LEAR OF ANOTHER UNTRY AND TELL HIM/HER HOW J AND HIS TEACHGS WILL HELP HIS UNTRY AND S POOR … AND TO TEACH THEM HOW TO LIVE, WHAT TO THK AND WHAT TO SAY.” SENATOR JAM INHOFE (R-OK) IS THE FAY’S MISSNARY UGANDA. SEN. INHOFE HAS TRAVELED TO AI AT LEAST 20 TIM SCE 1999, AT A ST OF AT LEAST $187,000 TO TAXPAYERS (NOT CLUDG THE ST OF ARY AIRCRAFT) FOR WHAT THE SENATOR SCRIBED AS “A J THG.” IN UGANDA, INHOFE ATTEND BAHATI’S UGANDAN PRAYER BREAKFASTS AND VED BAHATI TO THE UNED STAT THREE TIM. INHOFE, WHO ONCE BOASTED OF BEG “PROUD” THAT THERE WAS NOT A SGLE GAY RELATNSHIP THE “RERD HISTORY OF OUR FAY,” ALSO BOASTED THAT HE “ADOPTED” UGANDA. AND YET SEN. INHOFE HAS NIED KNOWG BAHATI AND, EVENTUALLY, RELUCTANTLY, NMNED THE UNTRY’S ANTI-GAY LAW. JT AFTER PARLIAMENT PASSED THE LAW DECEMBER 2013, BAHATI POSED FOR A PICTURE WH MART SSEMPA, A UGANDAN PASTOR WHO WAS ANOTHER LEADG FORCE BEHD THE ANTI-GAY LAW. SSEMPA HAD BEEN A LEADG FORCE THE ABSTENCE-ONLY PH UGANDA, FUND AGGRSIVELY BY THE BH ADMISTRATN, WHICH HAD THE PERVERSE (BUT NOT UNSURPRISG) EFFECT OF REVERSG UGANDA’S EARLY PROGRS STEMMG THE SPREAD OF HIV. SSEMPA, WHO HAS SPOKEN OUT AGAST NDOMS, ONCE SAID, “WE ARE PROMOTG ABSTENCE BEE UGANDA IS UNR ATTACK OM AN AGENDA DRIVEN BY HOMOSEXUALS AND WTERN EXPERTS”—TH LKG ALL HIS CSAS. ONE OF SSEMPA’S KEY MENTORS? PASTOR RICK WARREN, LEAR OF THE EVANGELIL SADDLEBACK MEGA-CHURCH CALIFORNIA. UNTIL RECENTLY, SSEMPA WAS A EQUENT GUT AT WARREN’S CHURCH, CLUDG AT A 2005 NFERENCE ON AIDS WHERE WARREN HAD SSEMPA LEAD A SEMAR ON AIDS PREVENTN AS WELL AS LIVER A KEYNOTE SPEECH. A YEAR LATER, AT ANOTHER SADDLEBACK AIDS SEMAR, WARREN’S WIFE TRODUCED SSEMPA, SAYG, “YOU ARE BY BROTHER, MART, AND I LOVE YOU.” RICK WARREN, WHO HAS PERSONALLY SAID GAY MARRIAGE IS “EQUIVALENT” TO CT, PEDOPHILIA AND POLYGAMY AND SAID THAT GAY PEOPLE ARE “EVIL” AND HAVE “CHRIST-O-PHOBIA,” AFTER SIGNIFINT PRSURE EVENTUALLY SEVERED TI WH SSEMPA AND SPOKE OUT AGAST UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY LAW.IN 2008, PRINTIAL NDIDATE BARACK OBAMA APPEARED A FOM HOSTED BY WARREN AT SADDLEBACK CHURCH, WHICH OBAMA NOUNCED MARRIAGE EQUALY. OBAMA ALSO SAID, “I LOVE THE MISTRI THAT ARE TAKG PLACE HERE AT SADDLEBACK.” AFTER HIS ELECTN, PRINT OBAMA SPARKED OUTRAGE WHEN HE VED RICK WARREN TO LIVER THE NVOTN AT HIS FIRST GURATN. LAST WEEK, PRINT OBAMA RELEASED A STATEMENT OPPOSG THE UGANDA BILL.DOZENS OF MEMBERS OF CONGRS, SEVERAL FORTUNE 500 CEOS, GENERALS AND AT LEAST ONE SUPREME COURT JTICE ARE MEMBERS OF “THE FAY,” THE RIGHT-WG EVANGELIL MISSN SUPPORTG BAHATI AS WELL AS UGANDA’S PRINT YOWERI MEVENI. SEN. JOHN ENSIGN (R-NV), SEN. JIM DEMT (R-SC), SEN. TOM COBURN (R-OK) AND REP. BART STUPAK (D-MI) AMONG OTHERS HAVE LIVED WHAT’S KNOWN AS “C STREET,” THE FAY’S SUBSIDIZED LODGG WASHGTON, DC. HILLARY CLTON HAS BEEN ACTIVE WH FAY PRAYER GROUPS SCE SHE WAS FIRST LADY. IN HER MEMOIR, LIVG HISTORY, CLTON SCRIBED THE FAY LEAR DOUG COE AS “A UNIQUE PRENCE WASHGTON: A GENUELY LOVG SPIRUAL MENTOR AND GUI TO ANYONE, REGARDLS OF PARTY OR FAH, WHO WANTS TO EPEN HIS OR HER RELATNSHIP WH GOD.”WHEN THE ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN WAS FIRST TRODUCED UGANDA, THE NEW YORK TIM WROTE, “YOU N’T PREACH HATE AND NOT ACCEPT RPONSIBILY FOR THE WAY THAT HATE IS MANIFTED.” JAM INHOFE AND RICK WARREN NOT ONLY PREACHED ANTI-GAY HATRED WH THEIR OWN WORDS BUT WRAPPED THEIR POLIL AND STUTNAL ARMS AROUND DAVID BAHATI AND MART SSEMPA AND OTHERS WHO HAVE TAKEN HATRED TO S UGLY, BUT FOREEABLE, NCLN UGANDA. INHOFE AND WARREN ARE RPONSIBLE FOR THE WAY THAT HATE IS MANIFTED. MOREOVER, AMERIN POLIL FIGUR WHO HAVE PROUDLY ASSOCIATED WH THE FAY AND WH RICK WARREN ARE CULPABLE AS WELL. THEY NNOT FEIGN IGNORANCE AT THE END OF A JOURNEY THAT WAS UGLY ALL ALONG. UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY LAW IS NOT JT AN TERNATNAL DISGRACE. IT IS AN AMERIN DISGRACE. AND THE AMERIN RELIG AND POLIL FIGUR WHO PLAYED A ROLE SPREADG VIC HOMOPHOBIA UGANDA, WHETHER ACTIVELY OR BY TURNG A BLD EYE, SHOULD DO MORE THAN JT NOUNCE THE UNTRY’S LAW. THEY SHOULD NOUNCE THEIR OWN ROLE FACILATG . SALLY KOHN

Media ptn, Hillary Clton: "Beg gay is not a wtern ventn, is a human realy"The US has publicly clared will fight discrimatn agast gays and lbians abroad by g foreign aid and diplomacy to enurage reform. Her dience clud reprentativ om untri where homosexualy is a crimal ambassadors shed out of the room as soon as Mrs Clton fished speakg, the Associated Prs news agency October, UK Prime Mister David Cameron's suggtn that aid uld be cut to untri that did not regnise gay rights was nmned by several Ain untri where homosexual acts are banned, cludg Ghana, Uganda and week Nigeria beme the latt Ain untry attemptg to tighten homosexualy laws, wh the Senate passg a bill banng same-sex marriag. 'Human realy'The announcement, scribed by the Whe Hoe as the "first US ernment strategy to bat human rights ab agast gays and lbians abroad", is also beg seen as part of the Obama admistratn's outreach to gays and lbians ahead of the 2012 official memorandum do not outle nsequenc for untri wh poor rerds on gay rights.

"Corrponnts say the new policy uld pose awkward qutns for US officials formulatg policy towards some regular alli and regnal 2011, the state partment's annual human rights report ced ab agast gay people Sdi Arabia, an ally of the US that bans homosexualy outright.

HILLARY CLTON SUGGTS REPUBLINS LIKE PUT BEE HE’S ANTI-GAY

Afghanistan also prohibs homosexual activy, and the same report found that thori "sporadilly" enforced the the US, Republin printial ndidat cricised the admistratn's cisn, wh Texas Governor Rick Perry sayg a statement that "promotg special rights for gays foreign untri is not Ameri's terts and not worth a dime of taxpayers' money". Earlier this year Print Barack Obama signed to law a bill repealg the "don't ask don't tell" law and allowg homosexuals to serve openly the US on this storyRelated Inter LksThe BBC is not rponsible for the ntent of external s.

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.

HILLARY CLTON’S CLAIM THAT DOMA HAD TO BE ENACTED TO STOP AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTUTN

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. Thanks to her hband’s support of anti-gay legislatn, Clton has a much thornier history wh gay rights than do most Democratic policians; she simply has more to apologize for than most of her liberal lleagu.

Openly gay Mae ngrsman and gubernatorial ndidate Mike Michd recently explaed his past anti-gay vot to me by scribg the toxic environment of the 80s and his own misunrstandg of social progrs. In addn to imprisong anyone who unsels or reach out to the gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr muny Uganda, the law tablish a crime of “aggravated homosexualy” which clu acts where one person is fected wh HIV, “serial offenrs, ” and sex wh mors.

HILLARY CLTON HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE GAY RIGHTS HISTORY. SHE REFED.

Acrdg to scholar and wrer Jeff Sharlet, Bahati—who has said he wants to “kill every last gay person”— is a re member of a secretive work of Amerin evangelil Christians lled “The Fay. Jt after Parliament passed the law December 2013, Bahati posed for a picture wh Mart Ssempa, a Ugandan pastor who was another leadg force behd the anti-gay law. Ssempa, who has spoken out agast ndoms, once said, “We are promotg abstence bee Uganda is unr attack om an agenda driven by homosexuals and Wtern experts”—th lkg all his csas.

” Rick Warren, who has personally said gay marriage is “equivalent” to ct, pedophilia and polygamy and said that gay people are “evil” and have “Christ-o-phobia, ” after signifint prsure eventually severed ti wh Ssempa and spoke out agast Uganda’s anti-gay 2008, printial ndidate Barack Obama appeared a fom hosted by Warren at Saddleback Church, which Obama nounced marriage equaly. ”When the anti-gay legislatn was first troduced Uganda, the New York Tim wrote, “You n’t preach hate and not accept rponsibily for the way that hate is manifted. ” Jam Inhofe and Rick Warren not only preached anti-gay hatred wh their own words but wrapped their polil and stutnal arms around David Bahati and Mart Ssempa and others who have taken hatred to s ugly, but foreeable, ncln Uganda.

And the Amerin relig and polil figur who played a role spreadg vic homophobia Uganda, whether actively or by turng a bld eye, should do more than jt nounce the untry’s law.

HILLARY CLTON’S GAY RIGHTS EVOLUTN

In one of the strongt statements ever om a printial hopeful, Hillary Clton on Saturday pledged to fend gay and lbian Amerins agast efforts to ny them of their rights.

Speakg to the natn’s largt gay rights group, the New York Democrat told an enthiastic dience of activists, donors and operativ that, if elected Print, she would lk arms wh them. Specifilly, Bill Clton signed to law the Defense of Marriage Act, as well as implemented the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that blocked gays and lbians om servg openly the ary.

One of her potential rivals, Vice Print Joe Bin, was slated to speak to a wi dience of gay activists at the 3, 000-person Human Rights Campaign gala Washgton.