Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., pauses as the crowds applaud at University of Dubuque, Sunday, March 4, 2007, in Dubuque, Iowa. (AP Photo/Matthew Putney)
Posted on 03/05/2007 10:14:27 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton told the nation's leading gay rights group in an unpublicized speech that she wants a partnership with gays if elected president.
Clinton also said she opposes the "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gays in the military that was instituted during her husband's presidency.
"I am proud to stand by your side," Clinton said in a keynote speech Friday to the Human Rights Campaign. Neither Clinton's campaign nor her Senate office made any announcement that she would be making the Friday address.
In the speech, Clinton joked that she shares the same initials as the group, and pledged to maintain the same close working relationship that last year helped defeat the federal amendment which would have banned same-sex marriage.
"I want you to know that this is exactly the kind of partnership we will have when I am president," Clinton told the group. "I want you to know that just as you always have an open door to my senate office, you will always have an open door to the White House and together we can continue this journey."
Clinton's husband Bill Clinton was president when the Pentagon instituted the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which says gays may serve in the military only if they keep their sexual orientation private. In 1999, as she prepared to run for the Senate from New York, Clinton publicly opposed that policy.
Previous to Bill Clinton's administration, gays were flatly forbidden from serving in the military.
Sen. Clinton said it would be safer for the nation if openly gay soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen could wear the uniform.
"This policy doesn't just hurt gays and lesbians, it hurts all our troops and this to me is a matter of national security and we're going to fix it," Clinton said.
Her chief rivals for the Democratic nomination, John Edwards and Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record), also favor repealing the policy.
She also attacked the Bush administration for making political appeals based on gay rights issues, vowing that her presidency would mark "the end of leadership that has politicized the most personal and intimate issues."
Human Rights Campaign vice president David Smith said Clinton's comments were "very well received," though he added the group is not endorsing any candidate and does not anticipate making an endorsement "anytime soon."
Clinton spokesman Blake Zeff said Tuesday the candidate "affirmed her desire to have a strong partnership with the community as president," adding they were "delighted" the speech was available on the Internet.
Clinton aides said no announcement was made because the group's gathering is traditionally closed to the press. Video of the speech was posted on the group's Web site.
Smith said such annual board meetings have always been closed to the press, but it was the first time he could remember that a speech at such a meeting had been made public afterward.
"There's no contradiction," he said. "The event is always closed to the press and we wanted to make (the remarks) available for people to see."
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., pauses as the crowds applaud at University of Dubuque, Sunday, March 4, 2007, in Dubuque, Iowa. (AP Photo/Matthew Putney)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., points to the crowd before speaking at the Myers Teaching and Administrative Center on the University of Dubuque campus during a campaign visit in Dubuque, Iowa Sunday, March 4, 2007. (AP Photo/Matthew Putney)
perhaps this should read:
Clinton opens "back"door to gay activists
The back door.
With Hillary
You get Bill again.
U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-NY) walks with her husband former U.S. President Bill Clinton during a march commemorating the 1965 Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March in Selma, Alabama, March 4, 2007. REUTERS/Tami Chappell (UNITED STATES)
Must...control...sarcastic...keyboard...of...death....
U.S. presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (3rd L) and her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton (C), pause along the Edmund Pettus Bridge during a march commemorating the 1965 Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March in Selma, Alabama, March 4, 2007. REUTERS/Lee Celano (UNITED STATES)
Sounds like she's planning to keep politicizing homosexual issues. Will she bring back the condom tree?
Hillary stole Rudy's campaign strategy/platform.
"I am proud to stand by your side," Clinton said in a keynote speech Friday to the Human Rights Campaign. "Just watch your hands."
Heard this old joke a few weeks into the first clintoonian administration back in '93: Bill has his bedroom on one side of the White House for him and his girl friends, and Hillary has her bedroom on the other side for hers (girl friends).
The joke appears to have some facts.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794584/posts
Brief history of the modern childlove movement
Read Post 12:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794584/posts?page=12#12
Is it me? Or does this SAY NAMBLA or SOS [Spirit of Stonewall], as in they are synonyms?
So, what does the member's and supporter's list of Stonewall mean?
Clinton listed as a supporter:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687307/posts?page=9#9
Hillary Clinton has marched in the annual New York Gay Pride Parade. For years, that parade had a float carrying members of NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association, whose monomania is the elimination of the age of consent for sex between men and boys.
She realizes this as both a sacred and secular mechanism to destroy the Republic. Nothing more. Nothing less.
In line with her Selma performance, did she fake a lisp...
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