Twenty years ago the Republican National Convention was running on a conservative platform, but was also working hard to win independents and more moderate members of their own party. This was all far too liberal for ultraconservative Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence.
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Pence wrote that the 1996 GOP convention had become “an endless line of pro-choice women, AIDS activists, and proponents of Affirmative Action,” in the Indiana Policy Review, the publication of a think tank with the same name that he once ran.
Mary Fisher, an HIV positive Republican who worked in the Ford administration, spoke at the convention, as she had in 1992. She appeared at the 1996 convention on stage with Hydeia Broadbent, then just six-years-old. Broadbent was born HIV positive and was abandoned as an infant.
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“Like it or not,” Pence wrote, “traditional Pro-Family conservatives make up the bedrock of modern Republican electoral success.”
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During his time as president of the Indiana Policy Review, the journal published a number of antigay pieces, Right Wing Watch reports.
This includes an article criticizing The Wall Street Journal for taking part in a job fair for gay journalists, claiming editors and journalists should keep their sexual orientation secret so as not to slant their coverage, as well as calling “gaydom” a “pathological condition.” (As opposed to bigotry?)
Another objected to the idea of gay people serving in the military, claiming “homosexuals are not as a group able bodied. They are known to carry extremely high rates of disease brought on because of the nature of their sexual practices and the promiscuity which is a hallmark of their lifestyle.”
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guntotinghomo
“They are known to carry extremely high rates of disease brought on because of the nature of their sexual practices and the promiscuity which is a hallmark of their lifestyle.”
Is anyone really going to argue with that? It’s true. It’s a statement based in reality.
Read a craigslist ad lately? Titles like “Anonymous bareback cumdump” or “Looking for multiple anonymous raw cum loads-bareback only” are all over the place.
The gay community needs to take out the trash and stop defending these weird man-whores that let any old, sweaty, herpes ridden trucker bust inside them. I refused to be lumped with those irresponsible buffoons.
robho3
@guntotinghomo: Read a straight ad on Craigslist lately? They have the same slutty shit there too. There are plenty of slutty heterosexuals too buddy.
dwes09
@guntotinghomo: Pence was referring to all of us buddy, YOU TOO. He means that ALL homosexuals are disease ridden sinners, repugnant to Jesus. Perhaps you are not aware of who he is and what he believes; I’ll make the assumption that you have been living under a rock (with your gun to keep you warm). Maybe you are eager to lick the ass of those who want to force you back into the closet, who knows. People with brains are not falling for the right wing bull Trump/Pence is peddling. There can be no capitulation to those who want to recriminalize our lives and nature, regardless of how scared of mythic “imported” Muslims they have made you.
ugenegod
Pence is a dickhead but not in the pleasurable sense; he’s a mean and stupid prick. Let’s hope that there’s a sex video out there of him with his favorite goat. Of course, even that wouldn’t stop the Trump-dumb-as-a-stump followers.
Alistair Wiseman
@robho3:
And yet we were constantly and repeatedly told by gay and AIDS activist groups that AIDS “doesn’t discriminate,” meaning that heterosexuals in America were as likely to contract the HIV virus as homosexuals.
It didn’t happen.
dwes09
@Alistair Wiseman:
Actually it did. Try reading mortality and morbidity reports, understand that the US is not the entire world, and above all realize your imagination is not a peer reviewed journal. For a time the group with the greatest increase of cases was young heterosexual women of color and drub users. Of course i guess to you being homosexual is a greater sin than being an IV drug user.
And for the record, “AIDS does not discriminate”, referred not to the %age of people infected, but to the prevalent view (internalized by folks like you among others) that homosexuality is “dirtier” or “more sinful” than heterosexuality. HIV infects whoever porrible, not just “fags” or “man-whores”.
dwes09
@dwes09: Possible, not porrible.
ChrisK
@dwes09: Very well thought out and rational responses.
Alistair Wiseman
@dwes09:
Of course, common sense and facts don’t bear out your ridiculous assertions.
Unless, of course, you consider the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention a right-wing conspiracy:
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics.html
Heywood Jablowme
@Alistair Wiseman: Try reading the article again (move your lips if you must, nobody is watching you).
Pence was oddly, and rather cruelly I think, objecting to the convention speeches of Mary Fisher who was infected with HIV in a monogamous (on her part) heterosexual marriage. She was just about as prim and proper an HIV patient as one could find in the ’90s.
Heywood Jablowme
Btw, Mary Fisher is still alive in her late 60s and in good health. No doubt that will upset a lot of the ignorant sex-phobic hysterics here in Queerty comments.
Kangol
@Alistair Wiseman: You’re actually defending Pence? Girl, wake up! GOPers like Pence hate your guts! Yes, you twirled with another guy at George W. Bush’s inaugural. Great, that’s good for you two. But the Republican Party wants to strip away equality for LGBTQ. I know you’re special, but look beyond your own crystal mirror and house!
DCguy
@Alistair Wiseman:
I love it when the anti-lgbt Trolls expose themselves.
You hate gay people. You operate under the false narrative in your head that they are all bad, but it’s OK because you aren’t one if THOSE gays. And you prove it to yourself and your bigoted family and friends by attacking lgbts and supporting people who seek to do them harm.
It’s a VERY old storyou. The only difference is most gay, anti-gay bigots get over it when they are 13. You just weren’t bright enough or strong enough.
guntotinghomo
@ugenegod:
@DCguy:
It’s not bigotry it’s facts. Cold, hard, unbiased, facts.
Face it. AIDS is something that’s happens to YOU based on the choices YOU make. I myself will NEVER have AIDS because I don’t run around fucking strangers.
Alistair Wiseman
@DCguy:
I love your Miss Cleo impersonation.
Perhaps next time you could respond to something I have actually posted. After all, “it’s a VERY old storyou [sic].”
guntotinghomo
@Heywood Jablowme:
Why would anyone be mad she’s still alive?
I don’t wish death upon her. I’m just saying most people contract AIDS through their own poor decision making.
Realitycheck
“Like it or not,” Pence wrote, “traditional Pro-Family conservatives make up the bedrock of modern Republican electoral success.”
Does Pence know the once 33% of americans that identified themselves as Republicans is now a low 23%, while democrats are still at 32%?
I think that bedrock is made up of religious extremists, uneducated low IQ and easily scared people, and white supremacists.
Sorry S-pence your boat is sinking fast.
Realitycheck
@guntotinghomo:
Grow up, it is way more complicated then that….. sight.
Realitycheck
@guntotinghomo:
guntotinghomo
@ugenegod:
@DCguy:
It’s not bigotry it’s facts. Cold, hard, unbiased, facts.
Face it. AIDS is something that’s happens to YOU based on the choices YOU make. I myself will NEVER have AIDS because I don’t run around fucking strangers.
LOL I just realized this Troll is probably the ugliest guy or woman on earth and will never have sex with anyone period LOL Who wants that?
BRYANinSF
Uh, guntotinghomo, I’m not so sure you understand how exposure to the HIV retrovirus “works.” You wrote “I myself will NEVER have AIDS because I I don’t run around fucking strangers.” I hate to be the one who breaks this to you, but you can contract HIV from a FRIEND who is infected, knowingly or not, and with whom you have unprotected sex (usually anal) or share a needle while injecting drugs just as easily as you can from someone you don’t know. The disease doesn’t discriminate, so you should always take precautions.
AND, dependent upon the degree of intimacy, you can also get herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, the common cold, crabs, scabies, etc., etc. and etc., so, perhaps you should take that rampant paranoia and and judgmental attitude of yours and become a bit more compassionate.
zmannz
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I Can NOT believe Trump had the Balls, to Fly into Mexico and Say what he Said, Talk about talking out of his A– it gives it a whole New meaning to the word BIGOT. Where was a Drug Cartel Gunman when needed one. lol Now that was just like something Donald would come up with, The way he believes everyone is out to Stop him, Get him, or Rig the Election against him. Just so you all know that was a Joke, almost as most of Trumps lol.
Before U say A Men,
We are NOT just looking a the Seven (7) Deadly Sins, You could call this election the Beginning of what the Bible would call Armageddon, and Trump thinks he is the Man to lead, Not just the U.S.A. but the World. I think someplace we lost the Horsemen some place in this Political circus that we have seen played out in Prime Time.
If I were U I would read Your Bible, Revelations concerning a man who wants to Rule and Your Man (if that is what you want to call him) to Me is a Very Evil person (maybe even Satan) leading you like Lambs to the slaughter.
Its written of this Evil person, who will seek the Powers of the world and destroy us in the end. Look at him and see him as he really is Pure Evil. Just look at all of the lies and garbage that spouts from his mouth everyday, Not against Clinton,but nearly everyone in the world but him and his family. Do you really believe he will Help the common man.
Then you are as much of a fool as the rest of the people, ready to bow down and Worship “The Presidential King” of the USA. Mr Trump has a God Complex and
feeds off people like a Blood sucker. He is your Best Bet to Drive this Country into Bankruptcy as He has done with most of his defunct Businesses he once ran.
Also the biggest reason he will NOT release his Tax filings is it will show that He is NOT worth what he Brags to be worth and that, He has Paid little or NO taxes and has given the least of Anyone ever to anyone else but to himself or into off-shore accounts in his kids names to hid what assets that he does have, after Robbing thousands of Hard Working People, that He enticed to Buy into Trump University another Sham and way to Steal money to shore up his lavish
Life style.
If just a few of these Truths are looked at by intelligent people they will See him as the real King of Darkness and as Evil as the Devil or even worse, The real thing, its said “He will come as a thief in the night, (that fits Trump to a T” Still some where we missed The Horsemen, lol
The Devil Himself.
jag4313
Once I read “Mary Fisher” I couldn’t stop thinking of Meryl Streep in She-Devil.