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Bluenorthwest

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20. Hillary's actions of late have been to lavish praise on Republicans who had genocidally anti gay
Wed May 11, 2016, 09:10 AM
May 2016

agendas while also claiming that the LGBT community failed to take any action until her heroes, Ronald and Nancy Reagan got the ball rolling for us. Of course in reality Reagan was entirely silent for seven long years while tens of thousands of Americans died. Hillary says Reagan did it all when in fact he did nothing.

Hillary has spent decades lauding her own faith and Church, directly crediting her religion for her strongly held opposition to LGBT equality. She herself said she was opposed to our rights because of that Church. Her current statements and actions suggest she holds ignorant false ideas about basic history and a person holding such ideas can't possibly be a trustworthy guardian of civil rights they don't really value, rights threatened by a Party that Hillary seems to think very highly of particularly in regard to AIDS and LGBT issues, she says Ronald Reagan started all things good.

I'm not into that. I'm neither a Reagan Democrat nor a historic revisionist.


And of course her supporters pattern after Reagan on this, mention what Hillary said and they fall silent. They have no response. They can't even manage to make a case for their own support of such horrible statements.

Ugh, it's already starting... vi5 May 2016 #1
It's disgusting. Betty Karlson May 2016 #16
vi5—A winning Democrat isn’t going to carry more conservatives than liberals. CobaltBlue May 2016 #22
I know, which is why it's a losing strategy.... vi5 May 2016 #24
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well said oldandhappy May 2016 #27
The Catholic Church is anti gay... Agschmid May 2016 #2
Funny how that works. JoePhilly May 2016 #8
This is her church and this is what she chooses to castigate it for. Comparing it to bernie cali May 2016 #9
Both support gay marriage. Agschmid May 2016 #10
Another red herring. She does not lead on progressive issues. She follows the polls. cali May 2016 #12
Continue to divide liberals. Agschmid May 2016 #13
That's it? Trying to silence people from criticizing Hillary? Sad. cali May 2016 #14
Engaging you in conversation = silencing liberals. Agschmid May 2016 #15
Uh no. This accusation is not attempting to engage in conversation cali May 2016 #17
Yes, my words. Based on your actions. Agschmid May 2016 #18
Hillary's actions of late have been to lavish praise on Republicans who had genocidally anti gay Bluenorthwest May 2016 #20
We've talked about this several times now, she made a ridiculous comment. Agschmid May 2016 #29
Well, you can't fault her for consistency (nt) Proud Public Servant May 2016 #3
Religion is for the most part anti gay. Agschmid May 2016 #4
But what does Reverend Wright have to say about it? JoePhilly May 2016 #5
Say what? Thanks for a perfect illustration of a non sequitur cali May 2016 #6
Attacking a candidate's church and minister ... wonder where you learned that. JoePhilly May 2016 #7
What the Fuck? First of all, I was an early supporter of Obama's. Hillfans cali May 2016 #11
Rev Wright's Trinity UCC congregation in Chicago was one of the earliest fully inclusive and Bluenorthwest May 2016 #21
He also said many extremely controversial things ... JoePhilly May 2016 #25
The UMC is challenged on both the I/P conflict and Gay rights for the same reason. Ash_F May 2016 #19
In reality it is LGBT people who get killed by religious people in those countries and thus Bluenorthwest May 2016 #23
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