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.
"I will go to a gay pride parade if you can explain THIS:"
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424865/hillary-clinton-email-blasted-gay-rights-passports
It’s easy - simply say “No thank you”.
Oh, really? They were her views until just a couple of years ago, and Obama’s...their views changed with the polling data, indicating they are not genuine.
So she wants to go to a “Gay Pride” parade with men running around in nothing but their underwear? She finds that appropriate conduct?
Silence.
He is not going to get their votes any way and he will alienate more conservative voters.
Not mention, he will need a lot of eye-wash afterwards: “What has been seen cannot be unseen.”
Simply, just accept her offer as long he can make a speech about how damaging the homosexual lifestyle is and how Christ can redeem their lives...
With all due respect to you, SeekAndFind, I would never presume to advise Sen. Cruz. He is far more intelligent, far better educated and far better informed than I am and in spite of those handicaps he almost always handles a situation to my liking better than I could have hoped or imagined he would. Or could.
That is one of many reasons I want Ted Cruz to be the next POTUS!
It would take some serious cojones, but a good answer would be, “What’s there to celebrate about men screwing other men in the ass?”
That would be “Trump Style”, and then when all the hyenas of the press and eunuchs of the GOPe would come after him and he would double down, he would suck the oxygen even out of Trump for weeks.
Hmmmmm ..?? Hillary invited Cruz ..????
THAT TELLS YOU WHO SHE IS AFRAID OF. Did she invite any of the other GOP candidates ..????
She ridiculed a few of the others .. but I didn’t see anybody else getting invited.
Ted should invite her to a Baptist Revival.
He could tell her he has a hair appointment scheduled.
No thanks, I have never been very interested in Freak Shows!
Hillary is late for everything lately , she’ll probably miss it herself
Oh, that’s good.
“I avoid association with queers and deviants when ever possible”
Tell the old hag he wouldn’t want to upstage her and her date Huma
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins.
Actually, Baptist revivals are few and far between now. Many churches haven’t had such service for decades, as the parishioners won’t take the time to come.
Cruz should respond with: “Hillary, thank you for inviting me to your rally. I know how much Gay pride means to you, to Donna Shalala, to Janet Reno, and to all the other has-been lesbians of a bygone era. But, no, I will not attend any event that celebrates a seriously disordered lifestyle.”
Ugly shoes.
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