Don't Blame The Gays

[Brian_Expat]

Another excellent Signorile article:

http://www.signorile.com/articles/nyp130.html

A FEW WEEKS AGO Howard Dean told me that, oddly, I was the only interviewer to ask him about a passage in his new book, You Have the Power, in which he recounts how Bill Clinton told one of Dean's supporters that Dean "had forfeited his right to run for president." The reason for Clinton's alleged claim? Because Dean had signed civil unions into law in Vermont, something Clinton believed would prevent him from ever getting elected. The fact that few in the media asked Dean about this glaring account in his book—in a year in which one presidential candidate has used the issue of same-sex marriage against the other one—says a lot about our clueless media, which is suddenly telling us that the presidential election turned on "moral values."

It also obviously says a lot about Bill Clinton, though not much we didn't know already. The gay issue has always been complicated for Clinton, traumatized as he was on the gays-in-the-military issue and often operating from then on in an irrational manner. Newsweek claimed last week that Clinton had advised John Kerry during the campaign that he should come out in support of the various antigay state ballot initiatives banning same-sex marriage, to which Kerry supposedly replied, "I'm not going to ever do that."

Well worth a full read. Kerry's response was heartening.