Forum: Sanders is right — don’t trust Clinton on gay rights

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Interesting article from a Log Cabin Republican (I seriously can't believe they still exist given how destructive Republican economic policies are to everyone, but, apparently they do).

It took Clinton nearly a decade to catch up with the rest of her own party: Her 2013 declaration of personal support for marriage equality came after a majority of Americans had already indicated their approval — and even then she qualified that she supported it as “a matter left to the states” to decide.

The reaction from the gay left was an exasperated deep-dive to find proof that Clinton has privately long-supported LGBT rights even if her professional resume indicates otherwise.

The U.S. State Department in July, for example, released emails in which Clinton expressed concern for gross human rights violations abroad, including the sexually-based violence committed against gay men in Iraq, incidents she called “sad and terrible.”

Headlines in liberal media outlets seized the exchange as “Proof Hillary Clinton Is (and Has Been) Pro-LGBT.” But an empathetic response to egregious abuse is proportionate and appropriate, not exceptional.

Clinton was, by contrast, much less concerned when her Clinton Health Initiative, an affiliate of her foundation, received millions of dollars from a Baptist Church in Cameroon that equates gay people with “devils.”

http://www.nhregister.com/article/NH/20151105/NEWS/151109682