by Meteor Blades
GOP candidate Rick Perry's campaign team wasted no time getting its hate on after Tuesday's
historic speech in Geneva on gay rights by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The speech and a presidential
memorandum laid out a U.S. initiative to assist human rights organizations fighting for the rights of gays, lesbians and transgendered people around the world. The Perry team quickly released a
statement:
Just when you thought Barack Obama couldn’t get any more out of touch with America’s values, AP reports his administration wants to make foreign aid decisions based on gay rights.
“This administration’s war on traditional American values must stop.
“I have proposed a foreign aid budget that starts at zero. From that zero baseline, we will consider aid requests based solely on America’s national security interests. Promoting special rights for gays in foreign countries is not in America’s interests and not worth a dime of taxpayers’ money.
Perry's stance was not exactly a surprise given that he thinks anyone engaging in homosexual behavior should be in jail. He punctuated his statement with a new campaign
video that not only bashed gays but also turned the "war on Christmas" into an Obama initiative.
Not to be outdone, candidate Rick Santorum made a
statement of his own:
"I would suggest that we give out humanitarian aid based on humanitarian need, not based on whether people are promoting their particular agenda. Obviously the administration is promoting their particular agenda in this country, and now they feel its their obligation to promote those values not just in the military, not just in our society, but now around the world with taxpayer dollars...He said he's for traditional marriage, and now he's promoting gay lifestyles and gay rights, and he's fighting against traditional marriage within the courts, and I think he needs to be honest."
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There was, however, a little pushback from what must be one of the most self-destructive, self-deluded organizations on the planet, the Log Cabin Republicans. Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper
said:
With all due respect, Governor Perry is wrong. Speaking out for the basic human rights of LGBT people to life and liberty is anything but "at war with American values." Throughout his administration, President George W. Bush was strongly committed to supporting and protecting dissident and minority voices abroad. Our nation can be proud of its long, bipartisan legacy of promoting freedom for all. Around the globe today, gay and lesbian people are often subject to ‘corrective’ rape, state-sponsored torture, imprisonment and execution. Combatting these injustices is not advocating for any kind of "special rights," and it is shameful for Governor Perry to suggest that American people of faith do not support protecting vulnerable populations from brutality.
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