NOBODY on DU is pro-Putin...nobody here ever has been.

[Ken Burch]

67. Not a strawman...the logical surmise from your post.

And I didn't call you a "liar", I said that the assertion that some here are conditional in their support of LGBTQ rights is a lie...and a collective smear.

You have no call to imply that any significant number of posters on DU are throwing LGBTQ people under the bus.

The claim that some are(and I'm not putting this on you, for the record)goes back to the claim by Hillary Clinton supporters(when she was generally running sharply to the right of all other Democratic candidates in the 2008 primaries, and when she herself was throwing African-Americans under the bus in states like West Virginia by running as the candidate of bitter white people who still hate the civil rights movement)that LGBTQ supporters should back her(even though she'd never defended gays when Bill was president and never tried to get him to veto DOMA)because of the guy Obama had offering prayers at a few rallies(as if a candidate who wanted to launch a missile strike against Iran could ever do anything pro-LGBTQ or otherwise progressive as president).

It was bogus then...it's bogus now.

It's only Republicans and DLC Dems who aren't backing LGBTQ rights.