There’s a new Hillary Clinton ad from the Human Rights Campaign, and it’s quite sweet.
“Equality is about of course passing laws, but it also is changing hearts and minds,” she says. “We need to build an America where nobody has to worry that they can get married on Saturday and get fired on Monday. Where kids aren’t bullied just because of who they are and where every American has the chance to live up to his or her God-given potential no matter who they are or who they love.”
It concludes with a reminder to vote, which is of course crucially important if you live in a swing state. If not, you can still have a say in the election by quitting your job to volunteer, or by donating thousands of dollars.
Hillary’s relationship with LGBT people is occasionally a bit rocky — she’s endured some justifiable criticism for not supporting marriage sooner. But most of the criticisms against her either aren’t true, or don’t tell the full story.
The good news is that queer people overwhelmingly support Clinton, by a margin of 80% for her and 20% for Trump. Is she perfect? Hahaha, no, but neither is John F. Kennedy or Cher or Abraham Lincoln or Walt Whitman or Helen Mirren or whatever other idols you have. Nobody is perfect, but in this bonkers country we only get two choices for president. One is pretty good and the other isn’t even worth discussing, so all things considered, it could be worse. Hey, there’s a great national slogan — “America: It could be worse.”
James
Funny that Hillary supports gay rights, which is great, but so phony for her to coddle up at the recent alf smith catholic fund raiser in New York City to archbishop timothy dolan, one of the most vicious anti-gay anti-women people haters around. I can see now why so many people hate Hillary. Basically Hillary, the archbishop, Trump and their Alf Smith catholic hate dinner are all phonies.
joeyty
@James: You know she’s lying when her lips are moving.
joeyty
@James: That dinner might be attended by LOTS of people who deserve to be taken to the guillotine, but it does raise money for Catholic Charities which does do an awful lot of good (including helping out gay friends of mine immeasurably).
wmca_goodguys
What a hypocrite! The woman takes millions of dollars from entities that throw gays off buildings and burn them in cages. She “champions LGBT rights?” Nice pandering, old lady. What about my right simply to “live”, my safety and that of my family? (Clinton wants no borders, unvetted refugees, an emasculated military, abolition of the second amendment, horrific curtailing of the first amendment and has a price for anything nefarious or treasonous to the country. The woman is pure evil.
scotshot
Did you get lost on your way to the Daily Stormer website Trump Troll?
The long debunked lie about Secretary Clinton has been debunked numerous times, you should be embarrassed to use it.
As far as the other claims you make of her actions: Prove it.
The terorrists we fear in America are radical fundamentalist christians who would be more than happy to throw us off buildings. They already advocate to imprison us, deport us, and execute us. They’ve been murdering and physically assaulting LGBTQs for decades, no centuries, they have the President and administration already behind them.
I’m afraid of you and others of your ilk.
MikeColling83
@wmca_goodguys: …wow…
Stenar
@wmca_goodguys: She does not want unvetted refugees. You do know that refugees currently have to undergo nearly 2 years of vetting, right?
Stenar
@wmca_goodguys: She does not want to abolish the 2nd amendment, even though I wish she did. She does not want to curtail the first amendment. You need to take your meds.
BriBri
I don’t believe anything that wench has to say. She hates us, don’t be naive. It’s simply a dog and pony show.
scotshot
Funny we’ve found out it’s Trump and his buddies are thew haters.
Talk about dog whistlers.
Herman75
She’ll continue the great national conversation started by Nancy Reagan. 😉
That will help me forget how a record number of gay soldiers were kicked out of the military last time Billary was in the White House. They did not care.
On the other hand, her three opponents are unqualified.
scotshot
Again, funny it’s since the election it’s actually Trump and his radical fundamentalist christians who intend to wreak more damage to us.
Brian
HRC is so out of touch with ordinary gay-identifying citizens. Where is this ad airing, by the way? On the networks or on some segregated, closed portal where nobody is going to see it?
scotshot
She’s actually more in touch with gays than the Trump team is considering they don’t consider us as human and have referred to us as “it”. There’s also Robby Look who was her campaign manager.
There you go again spreading lies for the opposition.
ErikO
@wmca_goodguys: Very true. She DOES NOT support LGBT People or our rights. She and her “husband” (she’s closeted and lesbian), take tons of money from countries that want all bisexual and gay men dead, and kill us, and then Hillary wants to bring 500,000 of these people over here. No thanks. I am voting for Jill Stein as are most intelligent people I know.
scotshot
Voting for Stein sure did a fat lot of good for the country didn’t it?
Great job of spreading lies that have been debunked thousands of times.
Your vote elected Trump and set up the most extreme anti-gay administration ever,
joeyty
@ErikO: (And it’s still too irksome to imagine that sexual predator hillbilly as the first First Husband, chasing those pudgy bubbly types he likes all around the White House while Hillary pretends she doesn’t know and thinks we’ll buy that).
scotshot
So instead you helped elect a bigger sexual predator.
You’re a winner.
jag4313
You don’t like Hillary? Don’t vote for her.
Stilinski26
Champion of gay rights but accepts millions of dollar from countries where being gay is illegal and gays are prosecuted and thrown off the building makes sense not!
scotshot
Trump Troll.
Stilinski26
@Stenar: Yeah right shes going to open borders like what Merkel has done in Germany ans these refugees will be allowed to enter without conducting any background and security checks.
scotshot
Another false statement Trump Troll.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@wmca_goodguys: Hillary takes money from ISIS?
BigWill
@joeyty: “Catholic Charities which does do an awful lot of good”
Not sure it balances out the thousands of cases of child molestation by priests over millenia, but I guess it’s…a start?
BigWill
@joeyty: Another Catholic program that does a lot of good is Courage. You know, the one that says it’s OK to be gay—as long as you don’t ever act on it. Catholics are amazing!
He BGB
She’s a politician. They all lie or wait until a cause is safe and won’t ruin their political careers.
Dr. Arthur Frederick Ide
@wmca_goodguys: Your comment is straight from the talking points of Donald Trump. And his were boldfaced lies. Those who throw gays off roofs and burn alive in cages are Daesh (ISIS). They do not give to the Bill Clinton Foundation nor directly or indirectly to Hillary. Each line you have written can be prove to be false with a simple use of Google. For you I would wish that your hero Trump would be elected for he has promised evangelical groups to overturn same-sex marriage, reinstitute sodomy laws, etc. They you can live a heterosexual life and be in an inferno for what remains on your existence. I will vote for the lady who was brave enough to change her mind (like most people her epiphany was slow but it did come) and champion gays and lesbians — and transgenders, etc. You should research before publish–but thanks, I will use your rant in my next article with your name as author. Be proud of what you write, and use your real name (I use my name) because it can be discovered.
joeyty
@BigWill: I don’t know anything about Courage. They don’t sound as good as Catholic Charities, though (or, at least NYC Catholic Charities), if they take that position before assisting.
joeyty
@BigWill: Well, BigWill, I don’t think people who have mental breakdowns and need AIDS medication and other social services are thinking about that in the midst of the crisis. But if it makes you Protestants feel WASPy-superior to hate anything re. Papists….have a field day…….
Brian
Hillary is not serious about homosexual men’s rights. She sees homosexual rights as a binder on her book shelf. In another section of her book shelf she has a binder that could almost be called “my friendly relations with countries that execute gays”.
scotshot
Brian, always the liar.
Captain Obvious
She never supported our rights and she hates minorities especially blacks. She’s just lucky(or planned it) that the chump she’s up against is Donald Trump. He’s such a child and a complete imbecile that we literally have no choice but to vote for her and hope 4 years from now that we have better options.
scotshot
Well, people like you spread the lies helped get Trump elected.
Ronbo
In the 1980’s her core values were Republican… support for DOMA, Support for DADT and trickle-down economics. In the 1990’s, Hillary supported NAFTA and outsourcing of American Jobs for corporate profits, in the 2000’s Hillary voted to enrich the rich with TARP and do nothing for those who lost their homes and their jobs. She is even opposed to Social Security style healthcare: Medicare for all.
And now, she is a Democrat? Gosh, how the world has changed… and not for the better. Kids, this person is not a Democrat. Hope for the best; in reality, plan for the worst.
ErikO
@Captain Obvious: Very true, Hillary does not support LGBT rights, and she does hate blacks, Latinos, women, and other people who are not rich wealthy members of the 1% who have the last name Clinton.
@Ronbo: Agreed, she’s actually very Conservative Politically.
scotshot
You’ve just described President Donald Trump.