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   On Sunday, 13 February 2022 at 06:55:03 UTC+6, All Things Black & Beautiful At   
   NBC wrote:   
   > Political Hay   
   > Nancy Pelosi Ducks   
   > By Jeffrey Lord   
   > Published 10/13/2006 12:09:03 AM   
   > Nancy Pelosi's office decided not to respond.   
   >   
   > After three phone calls to the office of the San Francisco Democrat   
   > who will be the Speaker of the U.S. House if her party wins the   
   > November elections, she ducked.   
   >   
   > When Pelosi spokeswoman Jennifer Crider was told that the subject of   
   > the call was Pelosi's participation in the San Francisco Lesbian,   
   > Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade -- the welcoming tone on the   
   > other end turned frosty. Having written the original column in this   
   > space that revealed Pelosi had marched in the parade that honored   
   > man/boy love advocate Harry Hay ("When Nancy Met Harry"), I have to   
   > say I was not all that surprised. After all, if you're busy charging   
   > the House Republican leadership with a "cover-up of Foley's internet   
   > stalking" (Crider's words as reported in the San Francisco   
   > Chronicle) of teenage boys, the last thing you would want anybody to   
   > notice is that your boss found it just ducky to lend her support to   
   > the honoring of a man who was famous for talking about men having   
   > relationships with "the nine-year-old, the eleven-year- old, the   
   > twelve-year-old, the fourteen-year-old...."   
   >   
   > This is embarrassing stuff when elections outside the moral   
   > cloudiness of San Francisco hang in the balance. If you're a   
   > Democrat in Pennsylvania or Montana or Indiana -- actually a   
   > Democrat just about anywhere outside of the City by the Bay -- this   
   > will not help you win points. To confess that your first vote as a   
   > freshman Democrat in Congress will be to put someone in the   
   > Speaker's chair who is apparently afraid to condemn Harry Hay's   
   > philosophy even after the man is dead for fear of angering his   
   > supporters -- this is a tough sell to all those Soccer Moms and Dads   
   > with boys.   
   >   
   > BUT THERE IS A SECOND QUESTION that this incident with Nancy and   
   > Harry brings to the fore. A question that goes far, far beyond   
   > Pelosi's double standard.   
   >   
   > Remember Bill Clinton's November Surprise?   
   >   
   > After spending the 1992 presidential campaign relentlessly   
   > campaigning on the idea that, in the memorable words of Clinton   
   > campaign manager James Carville, "it's the economy, stupid," a newly   
   > elected Clinton, not even settled into the White House, suddenly   
   > came forth with something else entirely as his first legislative   
   > issue.   
   >   
   > Gays in the military.   
   >   
   > Writing in his memoirs, ex-Clinton aide and now ABC-TV Sunday   
   > morning anchor George Stephanopoulos labeled gays in the military   
   > "the stealth issue of the 1992 campaign." Clinton had religiously   
   > ignored the issue in large public settings. There was no mention of   
   > it in his convention acceptance speech, the candidate never said a   
   > word about it in his debates with then-President George H.W. Bush,   
   > and no Clinton campaign commercials ever touched the subject. What   
   > he did say, Stephanopoulos writes, was said at quiet "fundraisers   
   > before gay groups and in a questionnaire for the Human Rights   
   > Campaign Fund." And that was it.   
   >   
   >   
   > Sworn into office a little over two months later, the issue   
   > instantly became Clinton's first legislative fight, astounding those   
   > who had bought into Carville's "it's the economy, stupid" line. It   
   > set off a battle royal between Clinton and military traditionalists,   
   > led by the unlikely combination of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of   
   > Staff Colin Powell, Senate Armed Services Chairman Sam Nunn (D-GA),   
   > and Senate President Pro Tem Robert Byrd of West Virginia. The   
   > last-named, according to Stephanopoulos, confronted Clinton   
   > personally at the White House, insisting that such a move "will lead   
   > to same-sex marriages and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts."   
   >   
   > Byrd was nothing if not prescient. Fourteen years later the issue of   
   > same-sex marriages is the court-ordered law in Massachusetts,   
   > quickly forcing the Bush White House to endorse a constitutional   
   > amendment banning them. A number of individual states haven't   
   > bothered to wait, frantically putting the issue on statewide ballots   
   > and amending their own constitutions to thwart court decisions that   
   > would undermine the centuries old tradition of marriage between a   
   > man and a woman. As to the Boy Scouts, their insistence on   
   > maintaining a policy of heterosexuals-only as scoutmasters spent the   
   > Clinton-era being taken all the way to the Supreme Court. In a   
   > narrow, 5-4 decision written by then Chief Justice William H.   
   > Rehnquist, the Court decided in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale that   
   > the Scouts had a right to set their own standards for scoutmasters.   
   > Still, in a number of localities the venerable organization has been   
   > pilloried as a gathering of bigots, its commercial or religious   
   > sponsors withdrawing from sponsorship. Little noticed at the time,   
   > when there was a move in the House to revoke the Boy Scouts' charter   
   > over the issue of admitting gay scoutmasters Pelosi ducked that one   
   > too by voting "present."   
   >   
   > SO HOW DOES ALL OF THIS relate to Pelosi's refusal to condemn San   
   > Francisco's favorite advocate of man/boy love?   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > Homosexual activists have long sought to distance themselves from   
   > pedophiles, however Canada's most prominent homosexual activist   
   > group has now demanded the lowering (of) the age of consent for anal   
   > sex to 16 from 18. Surprisingly, Canada's National Post, regarded by   
   > some as a 'conservative' paper, has come out in favor of the   
   > proposal.   
   >   
   > The article goes on to quote a Canadian gay activist as saying,   
   > "There's no reason to treat anal sex differently than other sexual   
   > acts except to stigmatize gay and bisexual men."   
   >   
   > In other words, lowering the age of consent to allow young boys to   
   > be the sexual partners of older men -- men like Mark Foley - is   
   > being presented not, as it now is with the vast majority of   
   > Americans, as an issue of sexual predators and child molesting. The   
   > objective is to transform it into an issue of discrimination -- a   
   > civil right.   
   >   
   > Which brings us back to when Nancy met Harry -- and her refusal to   
   > take the opportunity I offered her office, three times -- to   
   > distance both Pelosi and the Democratic Party from Harry Hay's   
   > agenda for America, an agenda that we now know is being actively   
   > pushed on the Canadian government by the powerful Canadian gay   
   > rights movement.   
   >   
      
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