Southern Florida Gay News endorses Hillary Clinton

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#WeAreWithHer: SFGN endorses Hillary Clinton



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Norm Kent


03/09/2016 11:24 am


In 2011, this newspaper made Hillary Clinton its ‘Person of the Year,” in no small part due to her groundbreaking speech on behalf of international gay and lesbian human rights.

Today, that speech is reprinted in our newspaper. It is a visionary talk, and a compelling reason for us to embrace the Clinton candidacy.

On another page, a guest columnist shares with you his reasons for supporting Hillary Clinton, addressing her past flaws and current positives. We do so for a few other simple reasons as well.

First and foremost, it is time our nation had a female president, and Clinton is eminently qualified to fulfill that role. To have a candidate speaking about building bridges and breaking down barriers is better than a candidate who talks about his erections on one hand, and erecting walls with the other.

Second, as Clinton says, America does not need to be made ‘great again.’ We have been doing pretty well the last eight years under a progressive Obama presidency. Within a country that has seen the economy grow, the LGBT community has grown exponentially too. We have had leaders appointed and elected to positions of influence and stature at every level.

In the past eight years, our national spokespersons have advocated to enhance human rights everywhere. Our nation has been on the right side of history for the rights of the LGBT community. With same sex marriage winning in the Supreme Court by only a 5-4 vote, how important it is that we further the advancement of human rights with progressive nominees.

Simultaneously, we have seen health care expanded, minority outreach improved, and the least of us protected, regardless of class or standing in the community.

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[Hortensis]

1. Of course they do. A note of sanity from the outside world.

[riversedge]

2. 1+

[Cha]

3. Great news! Thank you, rivers!

[Lucinda]

4. Thankie much!

Great news!

[countmyvote4real]

5. Not one of the "they"

I am a gay man that remembers the reluctance and struggle and twisted ways the CLINTONS tried to snare my vote w/o really offering me anything in return but DADT and simultaneously the DOMA. HRC and her supporters will do, say and post anything to coronate her. I won't and cannot support her when there is a better alternative: Bernie Sanders.

Sincerely.
"they" (eat me)

[Jitter65]

9. So people are not allowed to "come around" or change their views?

But having Tulsi, who hasn't changed her views, as a close aid and supporter is ok?

Several members of my family always appreciated DOMA but also favored benefits of marriage being given to civil unions. Then we had two same-sex marriages within the family...one in CA and one in MD. Just learning about the feelings and love between these couples changed a lot of views in our family. It was in many ways like the acceptance of mixed-race couples within the family. We love each other dearly and can't even begin to think about who is who and what their ethnic background is. Forgiveness is a gift.

[Cobalt Violet]

6. obviously not a very inclusive "we"

" We have been doing pretty well the last eight years under a progressive Obama presidency."

[yardwork]

7. It's a reference to the expansion of gay rights.

I've noticed that whenever a gay rights organization endorses Hillary, here on DU posters jump in to complain about how unfair it is for gay people to get special rights.

[Human101948]

8. Can you name those nefarious posters?

Because they shouldn't be on DU if they do actually exist.

[yardwork]

10. See the post I just responded to.

It happened here when HRC announced that they endorsed Hillary as well. Somebody - I won't call out the poster - launched into a rant about how there were a lot of other human rights, etc.

Special interest groups endorse based on their organization's interest. That's the point of the organization. Gay rights organizations don't claim to speak for anything other than gay rights.

[Human101948]

11. So the poster makes the point that yhou just made...

Special interest groups endorse based on their organization's interest.

By definition they are not all inclusive.

And many people feel that things have not been all rosy during the Obama years.

Does that mean that they are attacking gay rights?

[yardwork]

12. Yes, in my opinion that is the message.

"Gays demand special rights" was a right wing talking point in the 1980s and 90s. It is still thrown around today by people who don't feel that this is an important or "real" issue - just a "pony" that the spoiled gays want while everybody else is struggling.

We ARE everybody else. We are your brothers, sisters, mail carriers, teachers, nurses, plumbers, steelworkers, truck drivers, IT workers. WE have been just as affected by the economic downturn as you. Plus we are at risk for being fired just because we're gay.

[Human101948]

16. Thanks for the lecture...

I didn't hear anybody here talking about special rights. But perhaps your ears are more sensitive than mine.

[yardwork]

18. Are you gay?

[Human101948]

19. No, I'm a breeder...

but I try not to discriminate.

[yardwork]

20. I have two biological children myself.

[Human101948]

21. Mazel tov! I was trying to be humorous...

but I guess that slang is outdated.

[yardwork]

23. Thanks! I wasn't sure - didn't want you to think I had that bias.

[SmittynMo]

13. Comparisons.... The truth is the truth.

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[Nitram]

17. Bernie voted against DOMA because he wanted to make it each state's perogative.

..to decide if gays should be able to marry. Sanders supported civil unions over marriage. This all a matter of record. Bernie has evolved along with everybody else.

[NCTraveler]

14. K&R #hillyes nt

[riversedge]

15. #ImwithHer

[ibegurpard]

22. this gay man disagrees vehemently

With the Southern Florida Gay News
#shesnotwithme