Joe Biden: ‘There’s homophobes still left – most of them are running for president’
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Vice President Joe Biden equated gender ideology with civil
rights in a recent speech, at the same time calling marriage supporters
homophobic.
Gays and lesbians should not fear "those shrill
voices" working to oppose homosexual "marriage," Biden said,
because Americans "have moved so far beyond them and their appeals to
prejudice and fear and homophobia."
The potential Democrat presidential contender also took the
occasion to attack the character of candidates from across the political aisle,
stating, "There's homophobes still left – most of them are running for
president."
Biden used his remarks before the annual dinner for the
homosexual activist group the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) to advance his
support for allowing those suffering from gender dysphoria to serve openly in
the military.
"No longer is there any question transgender people are
able to serve in the United States military," Biden said, according to a
Huffington Post report.
The White House began to
take steps to remove the ban on "transgender"
soldiers in the military over the summer, the first stage being a several-month
study assessing potential impact on the military's readiness to fight. The
change, among other things, would include forcing taxpayers to fund hormone
replacement therapy for "transgender" troops.
The administration's push for
acceptance of gender
ideology in the military has
mirrored Obama's
policies throughout his time in office.
Biden also told the homosexual activist audience
Saturday night that "transgender rights" are "the civil rights
issue of our time."
The vice
president and self-identified
Catholic has long been
a supporter of thehomosexual
movement, beating fellow Democrats Obama and potential presidential rival Hillary
Clinton to the punch in 2012 as the first high-ranking official to endorse
homosexual "marriage."
His
outspoken support for both homosexual "marriage" and abortion has drawncriticism from
Catholics and others.
Biden was not the homosexual activist group's first choice as keynote
speaker for the dinner, according to the report.
Instead, it was Clinton who turned it down once she was booked
to appear on "Saturday Night Live" that night. The group also asked
Obama to appear, and then invited Biden when Obama was unavailable.