Homophobia Is Still A Problem-- And Not Exclusively In The GOP... Meet Status Quo Joe, Who's No Harvey Milk

Biden's never passin' that torch voluntarily
-by Nancy Ohanian

Unlike most Americans, I didn’t first hear of Status Quo Joe when Obama used him to balance his ticket— one black guy + one racist guy; one anti-war guy + one warmonger; one moderate + one conservative— in 2008. Nope I had been carefully following Biden’s ugly and always-repulsive political career since he was just some lowlife racist piece of dog crap in Delaware trying to kickstart a political career by campaigning against busing— exactly as Louise Day Hicks was doing in Boston and Bobbi Fiedler was doing in L.A., both of whom were elected to Congress, same as Joe Biden was. Hicks and Fiedler are still remembered, if at all, as vicious, destructive racists to this day. And even though they were reading and singing from the exact same hymnal as Biden, he was allowed to slide on the issue. I wonder why.

Biden was generally wrong about every important issue while he was in Congress— a dyed-in-the-wool conservative from head to toe, always one of the worst Democraps in the Senate, largely why Obama chose him. One of the way I also recall Biden was as a homophobic asshole. He made me cringe watching the debate last week when he tried claiming— as he always does— that he was the father of the gay civil rights movement. He disrespected gays and always voted against the LGBTQ while he was in the Senate. Example: in 1966 the Delaware asshole, who wants us to think of him as another Harvey Milk, voted for the Defense of Marriage Act. You remember that one, right? It not only defined marriage as exclusively between a man and woman, Joe “States’ Rights” Biden backed a toxic provision that forbade states from recognizing same sex marriages. So then, just a little over a decade later, when Obama needed a trial balloon to see if a more pro-gay sentiment was acceptable, the administration sent Biden out to say he was for marriage equality. So was the public and soon after, Obama came out and said it too. But giving Biden credit? How is that different for giving Trump credit for putting out any of the fires he started?




On Saturday, Biden— still a reflexive homophobe at heart— was caught at a fundraiser in Seattle, hosted by a foolish wealthy gay man, making a clueless homophobic remark. I hope McKinsey Pete does a Kamala on him in the next debate! Joseph Simonson caught him in the act. “Biden,” he wrote, “drew jeers from a group of his wealthy donors Saturday evening after he asserted that public displays of homophobia were acceptable as recently as 2014. Addressing 50 guests at the Seattle home of public relations executive Roger Nyhus, the former vice president claimed businessmen making ‘fun of a gay waiter’ was routinely acceptable. Those remarks sparked outcries from the audience, who yelled ‘Not in Seattle!’ Others disputed that casual acts of bigotry such as the kind Biden described would not be met with objections.”

“Today, that person would not be invited back," Biden, 76, added.

Much of Biden's speech thereafter, according to his presidential campaign's pool report, were indecipherable due to the fact that he spoke so softly.

One can imagine what circles Biden was running in in 2014 where it was perfectly acceptable to make homophobic cracks. Not mine, that’s for sure. Yesterday, Axios reported on how Trumpanzee plans to re-energize evangelicals. Pretending Aaron Schock is a Democrat? Reenacting one of Biden’s 2014 dinner parties where everyone sits around making fun of gay people?

The RNC is also planning to host voter registration drives at churches in battleground states such as Ohio, Nevada and Florida, where they'll promote Trump's record on socially conservative issues.

"Getting this right and making sure we're maximizing their energy is huge," said Ralph Reed, a longtime Trump ally and head of the Faith & Freedom Coalition. Reed's group pledged this week to spend $50 million on get-out-the-vote efforts and register approximately 1 million new evangelical voters in battleground states.

And it's not like Aaron Schock was the only closeted self-loathing gay man in Congress-- let's not forget, for example, Patrick McHenry (NC) and Jason Smith (MO), who are still putting one over on their hapless rural constituents