Hillary Tries to Undo Damage With Gays

There seems to be an inordinate amount of "gay" news today. In an earlier post I had the following info:

Hillary Clinton was asked whether she thought homosexuality is immoral (in response to General Pace's comments the other day) and her response was "I'll leave that to others to conclude". A copout, of course.

That was a classic example of politics trumping principle. If a person is more concerned about political fallout than by abiding with their core principles, they'll give a "non-answer" answer like the one above hoping that neither side will get too angry with them. People who value core principles will answer the question "yes" or "no" and let the politics shake out as it will.

Well, if Hillary was hoping to get away with that political answer, it didn't happen because she was immediately besieged by the gay rights crowd to proclaim that homosexuality is not immoral, which, of course, she did:

"Well I've heard from a number of my friends and I've certainly clarified with them any misunderstanding that anyone had, because I disagree with General Pace completely. I do not think homosexuality is immoral. But the point I was trying to make is that this policy of Don't Ask, Don't Tell is not working. I have been against it for many years because I think it does a grave injustice to patriotic Americans who want to serve their country. And so I have called for its repeal and I'd like to follow the lead of our allies like, Great Britain and Israel and let people who wish to serve their country be able to join and do so. And then let the uniform code of military justice determine if conduct is inappropriate or unbecoming. That's fine. That's what we do with everybody. But let's not be eliminating people because of who they are or who they love."

It's not a core principle or she would have said that the first time. She's playing to a particular political group.