The ugliness of Bill Clinton...

I blogged last week about the marriage of a gay republican, Arthur Finkelstein, who had been with partner for 40 years. Now, Bill Clinton has come out and has called him 'self-loathing' because he's a republican. Here's a nice opinion piece at the Gay Independent Forum.

Clinton's comments are disgusting but hardly shocking. He was never a consistent proponent of husbandly virtue. He also hasn't been a consistent supporter of gay and lesbian Americans. Sure, he says he feels our pain, and he did appoint a handful of A-gays to prestigious positions. But he also signed into law the most explicitly anti-gay legislation in the history of our federal government: the military's “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy in 1993 and the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. Did President Clinton sell gays down the river because he was “totally Machiavellian” or because he was filled with “some sort” of loathing?

I feel somewhat the same towards Paul Martin. Last week, Martin made a deal with an MP who was threatening to defect to the Conservative Party, promising more public hearings on Gay Marriage before it is voted on in parliament. I never really felt that Martin cared about gay marriage at all.