Et Tu, Hillary?

[illinoisprogressive]

Barack Obama isn’t the only Democratic candidate who should be called out for his anti-gay associates. As Paul Jenkins points out Hillary Clinton has also taken up with some queer bedfellows, including Reverend Harold Mayberry.

In this game, all candidates have been associated with homophobes. For instance, Hillary Clinton recently trumpeted her friendship with Harold Mayberry, of the First African Methodist Church in Oakland; her press release on the meeting/endorsement left out the fact that Mayberry believes homosexuality to be comparable to thievery.

It’s true, the Oakland-based Methodist, once said, “I’m not rejecting people. As God loves, we love. I don’t reject thieves, I reject thievery.” Too bad Clinton didn’t reject Mayberry’s endorsement.

Jenkins also takes on the Democrats’ backward sense of federalism, “Democrats can’t get enough of the federal government regulating every aspect of our lives, except on the one issue of same-sex marriage.”

And, he says, all of the major candidates’ marriage platforms reek of homophobia.

More bluntly, the leading Democratic candidates’ stance on same-sex marriage is in itself homophobic, although I don’t completely blame Clinton, Obama or John Edwards (actually, him I do blame for being a coward and trying to have it both ways by hiding behind both his faith and his wife). They are making a political calculation, and it is their right to do so; it is for the rest of us to show that calculation to be increasingly flawed.

Now poor Jenkins will have to forever live with the smell of dirty politics. Shame…

http://www.queerty.com/news/et-tu-hillary-20071023/

[Ethelk2044]

1. Interesting. Let's see if the media picks this one up

[MonkeyFunk]

2. Is Clinton

using him to raise funds? Is she featuring him at her events?

[Ethelk2044]

3. It does not matter. Unless people are not serious about the outrage

If he is against GLBT. Money should not make a difference if the outrage is sincere.

[rinsd]

4. LOL!

:rofl:

I'm sorry did I just hear YOU question the sincerity of someone else's outrage?

:rofl:

[Ethelk2044]

6. yes, Including yours

[rinsd]

11. Too bad, I didn't express much outrage at Obama.

All of the big 3 have questionable stances in relation to gay rights.

But I see you are smoothly handling this by blaming gay DUers (most of whom have no love for Hillary) for faux outrage. :sarcasm:

[CreekDog]

5. Wanna endorse a campaign, advise a campaign, BACKGROUND CHECK

This is getting so ridiculous.

Don't play this game, you see how it's being used against Obama.

[rinsd]

7. You are apparently unfamiliar with the OP.

[Ethelk2044]

10. We will see if Hillary denounce Reverend Harold Mayberry

[CreekDog]

14. yes, if they get their way, we will have great big lists of people each candidate denounced

ooooooooooooooooo, that will be so helpful.

We can start replacing boring position papers with big phone books.

We can have a new annual of "Who's Denounced In America"

Rudy will brag about his supporters that were denounced by Hillary.

Yes, this is improving the political discourse in America, this denouncing, it's just making things better, it is, it is, it is!

[CreekDog]

12. Oh, care to explain why I am *unfamiliar*

Is my comment not germaine to the thread?

[rinsd]

13. Basically

Your suggestion was a reasonable one.

The OP is not interested in reason or the truth.

[CreekDog]

15. Ah, sorry for the defensiveness and thanks :) nt

[Colobo]

8. Well...

Glass ceiling?

[CreekDog]

9. Some of my best friends are black doesn't make you not racist

Some of my best friends are homophobic doesn't make you homophobic

Some of you need to adopt George Bush's slogan, "if you are not with us, you are against us". You are using the same technique.

[FlaxieB]

16. This is all part of the game.