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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyMarch 12th, 2016
Today, with her apology (which included a friggin’ history lesson!), Hillary Clinton demonstrated the difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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Craig Burley
March 12th, 2016
No, Rob, she demonstrated the difference between Hillary Clinton’s audience and Donald Trump’s audience.
(But, yes, that’s a difference between the parties. Sadly, it looks like the other party is going to vote for someone who shares their values, and we… probably aren’t.)
Gene Touhet
March 13th, 2016
And a very important history lesson, it is.
Too often we take situations for granted, and we need to be reminded that someone years ago took steps to ease the situation they faced, and that we owe them a bit of respect.
It wouldn’t hurt to continue their work, as well.
eddie
March 14th, 2016
And that someone was NOT Nancy Regan.
enough already
March 14th, 2016
While it is deeply satisfying to emote about how awful a choice the Democratic party has offered us – The Hill & Bill Show, Seasons 9-12 versus The Clown Car, The Wheels Come Off! – the simple facts of the matter can be summed up in one short sentence:
Hillary, Bernie, Elizabeth won’t attack gay and transgender people and the rethuglicans will.
That’s all we Democrats have to offer. That’s exactly what the rethuglicans have to offer.
Anyone who votes for the rethugs or withholds their vote or votes ‘3rd party’ to ‘register’ their displeasure with us Democrats for not being in lock-step with their SJW, PC-Police based Ivory Tower future is anti-GLBT rights.
Period.
Timothy Kincaid
March 14th, 2016
If Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were the parties, you’d have a point.
tristram
March 14th, 2016
As concerns any action, negative or positive, that might be taken at the Federal level in the next four years, DJT and HRC might as well be their respective parties.
Joseph Singer
March 15th, 2016
The trouble with Hillary’s apology is that it should never have been necessary. Hillary is an intelligent person and the history of AIDS and HIV should have been well known to her. To make a gaff like she did about the Reagans’ involvement in bringing to the forefront the AIDS/HIV situation is a black mark on her. She should have known better.
CPT_Doom
March 15th, 2016
I am a regular public speaker and have made gaffes as bad as Secretary Clinton’s, saying something I knew to be untrue – even the opposite of what I meant to say. Like the Secretary, I typically correct myself quickly, but still look like an idiot. It typically happens when I’m concentrating on not saying something and say it anyway – the proverbial elephant in the room.
enough already
March 15th, 2016
Joseph,
My first husband died of Aids. I was on the push harder side of ACT-UP!
Yet, I see no problem accepting her apology.
Have you never made a mistake?
I have.
Lord_Byron
March 24th, 2016
Just thought I’d post this here. The NHS in the UK is saying that PrEP is not going to be available through them. Basically they are saying that they aren’t responsible for preventative services even though they provide things like the pill. What they are going to offer is “a fund of £2m over two years to supply the medication for just 500 gay men who are most at risk of infection.”
https://www.england.nhs.uk/2016/03/prep/
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35870296
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