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:
- REMEMBER WHEN HILLARY CLTON WAS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE?
- LISTEN: BILL CLTON ONCE SAID HILLARY IS 'A LTLE PUT OFF' BY GAYS 'ACTG OUT'
- REMEMBER WHEN HILARY DUFF END HOMOPHOBIA BY TELLG PEOPLE TO STOP SAYG ‘THAT’S SO GAY’?
REMEMBER WHEN HILLARY CLTON WAS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE?
* hillary hates gays *
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. 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.
LISTEN: BILL CLTON ONCE SAID HILLARY IS 'A LTLE PUT OFF' BY GAYS 'ACTG OUT'
One of Bill Clton's iends shockgly alleg that the former print privately acknowledged his wife was unfortable wh the ia of gay rights. * hillary hates gays *
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. 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?!
REMEMBER WHEN HILARY DUFF END HOMOPHOBIA BY TELLG PEOPLE TO STOP SAYG ‘THAT’S SO GAY’?
Maybe she’s fe wh the reprsive anti-gay polici of Mlim natns. * hillary hates gays *
In 2007, speakg at Columbia Universy, Iranian Print Mahmoud Ahmadejad said, "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals. 5 percent of male and female Iranian stunts admted to beg gay. Hillary Clton wasted no time -optg today’s historic Supreme Court lg on gay marriage as a promotnal vice for her printial n.
"It is one thg to be for gay rights and gay marriage once everybody else is for . That's not difficult." * hillary hates gays *
”A prr, she stood by her hband as he signed the Defense of Marriage Act, a piece of legislatn that dified gay Ameri’s send-class stat.
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.
In 2011, when the state of New York legalized same-sex marriage, Clton (then servg as secretary of state) spoke to the crowd at a gay-pri celebratn and hailed the “historic vote New York [that] giv such visibily and credibily to everythg that so many of you have done over so many years. Polil science profsor Pl Kengor noted at the time that Hillary Clton had fally "endorsed gay marriage, " statg that he believed she had unrgone "an hont shift":. [Her posn] changed this week, when the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights group wh which Clton has personal ti, posted a vio where Clton me out favor of gay marriage.