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Posted on 10/03/2015 11:42:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hillary Clinton ridiculed her Republican opponents during a Saturday speech before America’s preeminent gay-rights organization, poking fun at Ben Carson’s views on gay marriage and inviting Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) to a gay-pride parade.
“Ted Cruz slammed a political opponent for marching in a pride parade. He clearly has no idea what he’s missing,” she told board members and staff of the D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign. “Pride parades are so much fun! I was marching in them when I was First Lady. You should join us sometimes, senator. Come on!”
Clinton spoke in a crowded ballroom at D.C.’s ritzy Mayflower hotel, where gay-rights activists hooted and hollered as she ran through the laundry list of this year’s victories. “It felt like all of America was dancing in the streets this June,” she said, referencing the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down state laws forbidding gay marriage. “And that’s because of you . . . you helped change a lot of minds, including mine. And I personally am very grateful for that.”
Like President Obama, Hillary Clinton’s position on gay marriage “evolved” over the years. She opposed it as First Lady, during her time in the Senate, and as secretary of state. But with public opinion shifting rapidly, she came out in favor of the policy in 2013.
Despite the Supreme Court win, Clinton warned the delegates that “marriage equality” remained under threat. “The next president could get three Supreme Court appointments,” she said. “We could lose the Supreme Court.”
Clinton singled out a couple of other GOP candidates for criticism in addition to Cruz. Though not mentioning Mike Huckabee by name, she excoriated the former Arkansas governor for “celebrating a county clerk who is breaking the law” — a reference to Rowan County, Ky., clerk Kim Davis’s refusal to provide marriage licenses for gay couples — drawing hisses from the audience.
She also made fun of Ben Carson’s views on homosexuality. “Ben Carson says marriage equality caused the fall of the Roman Empire,” she deadpanned, shrugging as the audience laughed and applauded.
Clinton’s Saturday morning speech before gay-rights activists checks an important box for her campaign. The Democratic presidential front-runner had been asked to give the keynote address at the group’s annual dinner later this evening, but refused the invite in order to appear on Saturday Night Live.
#share#That speech will now be delivered by Vice President Joe Biden, who has flirted with challenging Clinton for the Democratic nomination for months. Biden came out for gay marriage in 2012 — one year before Hillary Clinton, and before even President Obama announced his support. Biden’s public endorsement of gay marriage is widely thought to have pushed President Obama to also back the policy a few weeks later.
— Brendan Bordelon is a political reporter for National Review.
On Oct 26, 2007, I invited her to the debut of HILLARY! UNCENSORED at Harvard. But she turned me down. It was fun. Some girls even showed up from her Alma Mater.
Ask her if she will join him in a Straight Pride Parade.
I would tend to think that while there were homosexual roles played in the demises of both Greece and Rome, they were never brought to the extent of the American experience. Rather I suspect they knew that by institutionalizing them at the societal level would wreck their bodies politic.
Invite her to a Prayer meeting at a local church
“Are you sure Huma won’t mind? I’d hate to be a third wheel.”
LMAO...you win FR for today!
Ask Hillary to watch the The Folsom Street Fair video filmed by Zombietime.
A Mazola party?
(Don’t tell me if it needs to be described with vulgar words.)
Invite her to debate....anything.
She can bring the questions.
This IS Ted Cruz were talking about.
I am sure Cruz has more important things to do than attend a gay parade with Hillary.
Or the “Up Your Alley Fair”.
He should say, “Thanks Hills,. . but I would feel out of place being the only straight person there!”
The “wife” in that picture needs to iron that pride flag.
“The Democrats have 1.8% of the vote sewed up. No need to go chasing after what you won’t get.”
It’s not the 1.8%, but the 70% that support their agenda. That’s the audience he must address if we’re ever to win the White House back.
I say call her bluff. Take the conservative message to them - they’re the ones who so desperately need to hear it.
Let’s just say that vegetable oil is a common lubricant.
Sorry booked for an Anti Planned Parenthood speech.
Went to do groceries today, we all know there are those slander rags hanging up at the check out. This one showed a deathly ill Shillary and it said she had cancer and 6 months to live. What a Hoot.
I think Hillary had or has some kind of illness. For some time she looked really bad. She looks better now, but that could be makeup or lighting tricks.
Anyway, she is not fit for the presidency in any way.
Hillary’s just baiting Cruz to take the attention away from Trump. ...Cruz should ignore the witch.
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