The Clintons and Gay Rights

I continue to be doubfounded by the members of the LGBT community who are Kool-Aid drinkers when it comes to supporting Hillary Clinton. Just before writing this post I again visited both Hillary's campaign web site and that of Barack Obama. On Hillary's site, I STILL cannot find "gay" or "LGBT" ANYWHERE. Meanwhile, on the home page of Obama's web site under the "People" tab all in caps is "LGBT." If Hillary is such an advocate for gay rights and gay equality, why is she afraid to mention us on her web site or publicly except in interviews with The Advocate and similar gay media outlets? If she will not mention us now, what in the Hell makes these Kool-Aid drinkers think she will stand up for gays if elected? Let'ss face it, she wants our money and then will throw us under the bus as Melissa Etheridge corretly said Bill did while in the White House. Just because the Clintons say things does NOT mean the statements are true or that they can be trusted.

Compounding this issue is Bill Clinton's recent hissy fit when questioned about his policies towards gays while President. Andrew Sullivan has some details (http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/03/clinton-on-gays.html):

Watch him get testy when confronted with his own record on gay equality - going after a college student. And accusing her of "re-writing history." The facts are these: under Bill Clinton the rate of discharges of gay people from the military doubled; under Bill Clinton, the Defense Of Marriage Act did not only simply enshrine the pre-existing right of some states not to recognize the civil marriages of other states - as he misleadingly states - but barred all of us gay couples from any rights on a federal level; Bill Clinton cited the Defense of Marriage Act in re-election campaign ads in the South.

Even now, he claims that repealing DOMA would lead to more persecution of gays, because more states would allegedly pass anti-gay constitutional amendments. But there are very very few left that could do more to stigmatize gay couples than currently do. And he still resists any defense of gay equality in substance seeing it entirely, as he did in office, as a matter of partisan positioning. Just as he left any mention of any gay people and any gay appointees out of his interminable autobiography, he still will not stand up for gay equality when confronted by the next generation.

In my view, Bill Clinton was a lying piece of shit while in office and he still is - so is Hillary for that matter as the Bosnia visit fiasco has shown. For a clip of Bill Clinton speaking about gays, go to Andrew's blog.