Vice President Joe Biden appeared as the keynote speaker at the Human Right Campaign's National Gala last night and in his speech
reiterated and explained his support for full LGBT equality. This excerpt is today's Queer Quote:
“I strongly support the equality act and it will pass. The American people think the law already prevents an employer from firing someone because they are LGBT The American people already think it’s illegal to deny you housing. the American people already think what the act calls for. The problem is, they don’t know that it’s still legal in so many places, so the one way, if you could change this overnight, would be to infuse in every mind in America that there are still 31 states that can deny you employment, and housing, etcetera….Let them know! The American people are already with you.”
“There are still homophobes left. Most of them are running for president I think.”
Interestingly, a few hours before Biden's speech, Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton made some news of her own in an address to staffers and volunteers at HRC
by obliquely calling out homophobes Kim Davis and
Mike Huckabee.
“We assure [gay youth] it gets better, but it can still be really hard to believe that especially when you turn on the TV and you see a Republican candidate for president literally standing in the courthouse door in Kentucky calling for people to join him in resisting a Supreme Court ruling, celebrating a Kentucky clerk who’s breaking the law by denying other Americans their constitutional rights.”
Hat/tip to
TowleRoad
