Southern Florida Gay News endorses Hillary Clinton (Hill group)

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511467421

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Norm Kent

03/09/2016 11:24 am


In 2011, this newspaper made Hillary Clinton its ‘Person of the Year,” in no small part due to her groundbreaking speech on behalf of international gay and lesbian human rights.

Today, that speech is reprinted in our newspaper. It is a visionary talk, and a compelling reason for us to embrace the Clinton candidacy.

On another page, a guest columnist shares with you his reasons for supporting Hillary Clinton, addressing her past flaws and current positives. We do so for a few other simple reasons as well.

First and foremost, it is time our nation had a female president, and Clinton is eminently qualified to fulfill that role. To have a candidate speaking about building bridges and breaking down barriers is better than a candidate who talks about his erections on one hand, and erecting walls with the other.

Second, as Clinton says, America does not need to be made ‘great again.’ We have been doing pretty well the last eight years under a progressive Obama presidency. Within a country that has seen the economy grow, the LGBT community has grown exponentially too. We have had leaders appointed and elected to positions of influence and stature at every level.

In the past eight years, our national spokespersons have advocated to enhance human rights everywhere. Our nation has been on the right side of history for the rights of the LGBT community. With same sex marriage winning in the Supreme Court by only a 5-4 vote, how important it is that we further the advancement of human rights with progressive nominees.

Simultaneously, we have seen health care expanded, minority outreach improved, and the least of us protected, regardless of class or standing in the community.

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[Her Sister]

1. Fidel Castro takes blame for 1960s gay persecution

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-castro-idUSTRE67U4JE20100831
"Fidel Castro took the blame for a wave of homophobia launched by his revolutionary government in the 1960s, but said it happened because he was distracted by other problems, in an interview published on Tuesday in a Mexican newspaper.

The former Cuban president told La Jornada the persecution of gays, who were rounded up at the time as supposed counterrevolutionaries and placed in forced labor camps, was a "great injustice" that arose from the island's history of discrimination against homosexuals."

[Cha]

2. Thank you for posting that in Hill's group, rivers!

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3. K&R