2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dear Mrs Clinton: some well-meant advice from an irrevocably lost voter [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)thing. It's disturbing to the core.
She has to do a full and actual accounting of what Reagan and Nancy and the rest of them actually did. But she likes to excuse the straights for their brutal negligence and heartless treatment of people of LGBT and people with AIDS.
She spoke on World AIDS Day at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church. Yeah. She lavished praise on Rick and his people and she said 'gay' 4 times in an AIDS speech. She only said 'gay' in order to excuse herself and the faith community for their atrocious actions.
This is 2007, mind you: "Twenty-five years ago, when men - mostly young gay men - began dying from a disease that had no name, we could not have, and certainly did not, talk about it in church. It would not have been proper. It would not have been polite. It would have been discomforting for so many of us.
But the disease itself was not polite, and ignoring it did not make it go away. It only made the problem worse, because the disease fed on ignorance and fear and, let's be honest, on prejudice."
So self serving and all about the poor Christians asked to serve those in need. 'We could not. It would have been discomforting to so many of us'.
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