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.
Invite her to a pro-life rally! They’re a lot of fun, too, and they celebrate something worth celebrating!
You had to say that, linked my mind to this video...
Not Hillary but the parallel is there
No Tequila for You Hillary!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj2700em-JQ
Please God Noooooooooo!
“I stand with the world’s major religions and especially with 2 millennia of Christians against the perversion of homosexuality and I will continue to stand for healthy monogamous sex inside the covenant marriage of one man and one woman. I realize that if I do not attend, I risk being sued by some uber-sensitve homosexual who might claim to suffer serious emotional trauma,because I attend some parades, but will not attend a homosexual one. One might argue that parades are to candidates what cakes are to bakers and pictures are to photographers. I would rather be sent to jail like Kim Davis than contribute to the sinful rebellion against the law of God. I will not endorse any celebration or spectacle of activities that are destroying freedom under God, robbing children of their innocence, and destroying the family as it has been defined since the beginning of history. Mrs. Clinton, I understand that there is no perversion to which you are averse, no sexual act that you deem unnatural or unhealthy. It is in my opinion that such a total lack of moral judgement should disqualify you from public office - you may not know shame, but America does every time they hear from you.”
Or an exorcism ... her own.
actually this is a great opportunity; if i’m Cruz i accept the invitation on the basis that clinton, obama and Cruz get together and watch all the planned parenthood videos...
this is a perfect opportunity to stick it back at them...
Perhaps Ted should invite Hillary to view the Planned Parenthood movies, and then see if even Hillary wants to attend the pride parade after watching all of them.
She sounds depraved to me, pretending that the Planned Parenthood movies are NOT real, and pretending the men and women are fully interchangeable.
RE: “I have nothing to celebrate, and I don’t believe in pandering.”
The choice we have for these GOP candidates are quite stark.
Notice that Hillary did not extend this invitation to John Kasich.
She know he’d say YES in a jiffy ( he already attended a gay wedding ).
Had Scott Walker still been in the race, he’d say yes too ( he also attended a gay wedding ).
MrT5 was stationed in SF for a couple of years, and the gay “pride” event we saw there was not anything to be proud of-homosexuals-male and female, drunk/stoned and sober-twerking, humping and just about any other behavior that belongs behind closed doors and privacy fences-totally vulgar, not to mention inappropriate for a public venue-even for normal heterosexual people .
Some “costumes” were strings of beads, bows of ribbon or just paint on nude bodies-something that belongs on a designated nude beach, not the middle of a public street.
Tell her no thanks, Ted-those events are nausea inducing, bigtime...
I think Cruz would respond in the following manner, this is if he responds at all, which wouldn’t hurt him if he doesn’t.
Okay Hillary here is what I will do, I will attend your parade if you first sit with me and watch every video of PP selling baby parts for profit.
Big mistake
Cruz has been given a chance to confront and debate Clinton on an issue that 70% of. american voters disagree with Clinton in
Gay Pride is especially deadly...like playing Aids roulette with only one empty chamber...Dung Puncher Pride!
Ignore her.
Cruz should respond by telling Hillary she should be Nancy Pelosi’s Grand Marshall for the Folsom Street Fair.
How should Ted Cruz respond?
Tell her he’ll attend that parade right after Hillary Clinton attends a triple-feature at a theater of Cruz’ choosing in which they will watch those Planned Parenthood videotapes of little babies being butchered and sold in that ‘parts-for-profit’ program.
And of course he’ll invite Hillary to return her Margaret Sanger Award to that genocidal-racist organization.
Invite her to the next National Rifle Assc conference.
Ted should offer to accept in return for Hillary accepting an invitation to join with him and the Mennonite community whose members have lost their wedding cake business.
Cruz should run a video showing the typical gay pride parade. Then show Hillary praising it.
I wouldn’t attend. It wouldn’t be appropriate for my toddler and infant who are my children.
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