Dems 'grovel before hard-core homosexual activists' in GLBT forum
Jim Brown OneNewsNow.comAugust 10, 2007 barack_obama_gay_debate.jpg
Six of the Democratic White House hopefuls threw plenty of red meat to the 'gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender' (GLBT) community last night at the first-ever presidential forum on homosexual issues.
The candidates all expressed support for homosexual civil unions and their desire to get rid of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell” policy.
Barack Obama (D-Illinois) boasted he has the best "track record of working with the GLBT community," noting as a state senator, he was the chief sponsor of Illinois' version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Former Senator John Edwards said, "Americans owe gays and lesbians a debt of gratitude," and predicted their activism is "going to change the country." Senator Hillary Clinton (D-New York) declared she wants to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and section three of DOMA.
Conservative activist Peter LaBarbera is an expert on the homosexual agenda.
"To see these candidates groveling before hard-core homosexual activists is one of the sorriest spectacles the American political scene has ever witnessed," says LaBarbera.
He says the Democrats were pandering to a "sin-based” movement.
"Whether they would admit it or not, they all took giant strides towards moving our political system towards embracing and ratifying a sinful lifestyle as a civil right," he explains.
Clinton, Edwards and Obama all came short of endorsing same-sex marriage, which drew criticism from long shot candidate Mike Gravel. He said the three frontrunners "can't get their arms around the marriage issue."
LaBarbera claims that a lot of anti-Christian bigotry was being expressed in that debate.
"When you call people who are trying to protect the sacred definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, when you cast dispersions on their motives and say they're mean spirited and all that, it really amounts to anti-Christian bigotry or anti-religious bigotry because a lot of people who aren't Christians, who are of other faiths, still support marriage," says the conservative activist.
Last night, former Senator John Edwards renounced a statement he made recently at a CNN forum. Edwards says that it was a "mistake" for him to claim that his Baptist faith precluded him from supporting homosexuality.
Dems 'grovel before hard-core homosexual activists' in GLBT forum
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