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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary Clinton Calls Out Rick Perry For Anti-Gay Comments
<When asked about Perrys comments during a Wednesday talk to promote her book at San Franciscos Orpheum Theatre, Clinton suggested that he be held to a higher standard, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
"We're living in a time of real political angst," she said. "There's a lot of work to be done, and I believe it's going to come down to people demanding that those who hold public office start making evidence-based decisions again."
While also in San Francisco earlier this month, Perry caused a stir when asked if he considered homosexuality a disorder.>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/26/hillary-clinton-rick-perry_n_5534575.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Applying that rate of progress to past struggles, I guess she'd have come out against Jim Crow in 1974, then. Or called for a U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1982. Or opposed aid to the Contras in 1996 or so.
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(16,149 posts)associates with, helped author Uganda's genocide bill notoriously nicknamed the KILL THE GAYS bill, back in '09.