I want to make a point about Clinton's reaction to Obama's remarks that I have not seen others make. Specifically as a gay man, I want to explain why his comments rang true for me, and why her reaction to them exemplifies why I will never support Clinton.
In her attacks on Obama's comments, Clinton is implicitly saying it is an acceptable, defensible part of people's belief system for them to be bigots towards gay people.
As a gay man, I watched as Bill Clinton signed away my federal marriage rights. I watched as President Clinton signed away my right to be honest about who I am and still keep my job in our armed services.
I have watched 8 years of media-wide and country-wide gay bashing by a huge majority of the population of this country.
I have watched as state after state have passed, for the first time ever, constitutional amendments limiting a group of citizens rights rather than expanding them.
I have watched as an entire religious movement has coalesced and flourished around the idea that I am a second class citizen, that the best thing you can say about me is "to hate the sin but love the sinner."
Having seen all of this, I would very much like to know a good reason why my fellow citizens feel it has been excusable to treat gay people this way.
I once again found that Obama had the only understandable (and frankly the most generous) explanation of this countries attitudes regarding human rights as they relate to gay people.
Everyone, including Hillary Clinton, knows Obama was right. People close down and look for scapegoats as their own prosperities grind to a halt. This is an understandable reaction. But it does not make it right.
And it certainly does not excuse Clinton's attempt to capitalize on Obama's accurate and honest assessment of why people have the attitudes towards gay people that they have displayed during the Bush and Clinton presidencies.
And this is precisely the reason I could never support Clinton. Nothing is beyond reproach for her or her political machine.