[Equal Marriage] Hillary Clinton: Homophobe

[Owen Broadhurst]

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Date: Oct 9, 2006 2:18 AM
Subject: [Lavender-caucus] Hillary Clinton & antigay bigotry among Dems
(Scott Tucker, OpenLetterOnline.com
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OPEN LETTER ONLINE
http://www.openletteronline.com

October 6, 2006

HILLARY CLINTON AND ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY IN THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Readers of Open Letter,


    According to John Nichols (speaking of
Hillary Clinton in The Online Beat / The Nation,
August 9, 06), "She's for civil unions and other
gay rights measures." See weblink directly below:

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=11167

    Civil unions mean very little, however,
without real social democracy in the realm of
housing, health care and education.  Otherwise
the old marriage contract, conflating church and
state, becomes the legal ticket to material
benefits within a very narrow precinct.

    There are vociferous critics of marriage--
anarchists, radical feminists, old school
bohemians, some civil libertarians-- but they are
not notable for making a strong case for social
democracy.

    The Socialist Prime Minister of Spain
addressed this issue of civil unions for gays
without giving aid and comfort to fascists and
clerical reactionaries. But the Clintonistas have
neither his moral nor his political standing. The
Clintons helped to shred the remnants of New Deal
democracy in this country, both by sabotaging
real health care reform and by tearing down
welfare. The Clintons have been collaborators in
the bipartisan imperial wars.  To think they give
a damn for civil unions is not thinking at all.
Hillary simply wants to move this issue off the
agenda as long as she can.

    The human rights of gay people are not a
"wedge issue", as anti-gay bigots in the
Democratic Party frequently claim. And every time
they use such phrases to demean and degrade gay
people, they confirm their bigotry. Some of these
"progressives" will claim some of their best
friends are queer, and who cares?  They have
hipster reflexes where brains should be. They get
their political opinions from Jon Stewart, who
never deigns to invite queers on his show unless
they are certifiable clowns such as McGreevey.

    If civil unions are to set the standard of
civil debate on this issue, we have to be serious
about social democracy.  That means breaking from
the Democratic Party and putting the bipartisan
club of multi-millionaire career politicians out
of business.  We might begin by launching Bill
and Hillary to the moon.

    Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage
Act into federal law, one of the most vicious and
regressive pieces of legislation to mark his
sorry career.  Both Bill and Hillary have
defended marriage as a segregated institution:
only one man and one woman may enter that
exclusive club at one time.

    More recently-- as a defensive and evasive
maneuver-- Hillary has endorsed civil unions.
Coming from a social democrat, such a position
might have some logic and history and meaning.
Coming from the Clintons and their bemused
followers, such a position means little except
the next round of dodge ball.

    Not one cent and not one vote to the parties
of war and empire!  Launch career politicians to
the moon!

    To hell with the Bush and Clinton mafias in
2006 and in 2008 and forever!


February 22, 2006
Gay Group Slams Hillary Clinton
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/02/gay_group_slams.html

The New York Observer's Ben Smith obtained a memo
from the chief of New York state's leading gay
rights group, Empire Pride Pride Agenda, where
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's refusal to support
gay marriage is labeled a "disappointment" and
one reason why, in the view of Alan Van Capelle,
the group's board should not help raise money for
Clinton.

>From the letter: "Supporting an LGBT fundraiser
for Hillary Clinton will actually hurt our
community. It will send a message to other
elected officials that you can be working against
us during this critical time and not suffer a
negative pushback from the gay community. We have
become a community that throws money at
politicians and we demand nothing in return. And
that's what we get -- nothing. It's the wrong
message to send."

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Hillary Firmly Opposes Gay Marriage
  Back to the HRC Page

  Reprinted from NewsMax.com

  Monday, March 8, 2004 10:49 a.m. EST

  Hillary Clinton firmly opposes gay marriage,
the New York Post's Fred Dicker reported Monday.

  "Despite growing support for the controversial
proposal and their party's platform plank
endorsing it," the Post said, both New York
senators, Democrats Charles Schumer and Hillary
Rodham Clinton, "oppose granting marriage rights
to gays."

  The position is no surprise for those tracking
Sen. Clinton's record. Her husband signed the
Defense of Marriage Act as federal law in 1996.
The act defined marriage as being between a man
and a woman.

  Mrs. Clinton's marriage stance also positions
herself in the more moderate wing of the party
and close to the Democratic Leadership Council, a
group her husband used as a springboard for the
White House.

  Sen. Clinton has staked out a number of
positions that have put her at variance with her
party's presumptive nominee, John Kerry. For
example, Sen. Clinton voted for President Bush's
Iraqi reconstruction aid request. Kerry voted
against the plan.

  The Post also noted that "Schumer's position
could be the most significant because he's eyeing
a race for governor in 2006 - possibly starting
with a primary against Attorney General Eliot
Spitzer, now the state's strongest voice in favor
of gay marriages."

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Owen R. Broadhurst
Candidate for State Representative
Third Hampden District
http://www.owenbroadhurst.org