This GOP Presidential Hopeful Thinks LGBT and Women’s Rights Are a “Distraction”
Let’s make a deal. I’ll tell you which presidential candidate I’m talking about if you promise to keep reading after you see his name. I swear, there’s a point to all this. Promise? No crossing your fingers.
Ready? OK, it’s George Pataki.
Remember, you promised.
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Then he calls abortion and gay rights “a distraction.” That’s the line I want you think about for a moment.
Pataki2I want you to imagine a gay couple in love, together for years, who want to get married but whose state still has a law on the books telling them they can’t, because they’re still second-class citizens. Now picture George Pataki telling them if they try to fight for their right to marry, they’re distracting the nation in our fight against terror.
I want you to imagine a pregnant, scared teenager worried her life is essentially over. Her dreams of college and a career might be gone forever, because her state passed a law saying she can’t end her pregnancy unless her conservative parents agree to let her. Now imagine George Pataki telling that young woman her right to decide her own fate is a distraction keeping us from growing the economy.
The fight for a woman’s right to decide when and how she has kids isn’t a distraction. The fight for LGBT people to have full inclusion in our rights as citizens isn’t a distraction. These are critical battles about the fundamental values that define us as a nation.
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A distraction? WTF!
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Open season, oh Bill~
until that day, the fight goes on!
and it's not anyone that I would choose to align with even if I had no other choice in this world.
I also think it's precious and adorable that the same ones calling social issues "distractions" here are also the same ones crowing about how they are finding so much common ground with Republicans on Discussionist.
You'd think the 
would have happened by now, that the penny would have dropped and they'd wake up and realize exactly what this all means, but that would be ascribing way too much intelligence (not to mention progressive beliefs and behavior) to those who have made it abundantly clear that they are not blessed with even the tiniest most miniscule trace of awareness.
Are they the same ones that took the President to task for reaching across the aisle? Apparently the only time one should reach out to Republicans is when you are minimizing the rights of about 60% of your population.
Kill it! Kill it with FIRE!!! AAAAAH!
Jayzus. Human rights are a "distraction." Obviously they are members of the same club as war criminal Henry Kissinger. 
I love when posters feel the need to weigh in on a thread about equality with "what about the TPP?"
Thanks.