So, HRH wants to hold up Ryan White re-authorization to help her in states she needs to carry to win the White House? She's playing politics with AIDS funding? Not possible!
And still she gets the unabshed support of the community...the Clintons can DO anything but still get blank check gay community support. Bill Clinton gave us Don't Ask Don't Tell and DOMA but because he says the right things and is a Democrat he is okay.
Same phenom with John Kerry -- Someone explain to me the moral difference between George W. Bush and John Kerry on gay marriage. There isn't one...both think marraige is solely for a man and woman, and both would support a constitutional prohibition against people of the same sex getting married. The only difference is jurisdiction -- Bush would ban it federally and Kerry would ban it at the state level. That's a difference only in tactics, not a difference in morality or policy.
And yet Bush is the biggest demon the gay community while Kerry got a pass. Kerry's position is excused because of "politics," that is, "he has to support anti-gay amendments to win." (which, incidentally, he didn't do).
Isn't that the same rationale Karl Rove used? Shouldn't we expect more from the politicians the gay community finances, votes for and fawns over?
Oh, but wait -- they show up at the HRC Annual Dinner. So they're okay.
So HRH's latest move is just par for the course. And so, sadly, is the community's shrug of the shoulders and turning a blind eye.
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