Strom Thurmond was a racist and a segregationist. He lived to age 90 and served many years in the United States Senate.
During the course of his long life, I'm sure that Thurmond did many good things -- so much so that, when he died, many members of the Senate were able to make speeches praising him for his positive accomplishments.
Does that make those Senators racists and segregationists? Does that mean that they endorsed Thurmond's segregationist positions?
If that were so, then most of the U. S Senate would have had to resign. Most of those senators found good things to say about Strom, not because of, but in spite of, his racist views.
The same thing applies here. Kevin Jennings had good things to say about Harry Hay -- that Hay "inspired him" -- because Hay did do good things. Hay founded the Mattachine Society in 1948, which was the first major gay civil rights organization in America.
Do those words of praise mean that Jennings supports Hay's other organization, NAMBLA, or that Jennings is in favor of pedophilia? Nonsense. No more so than a senator praising Strom Thurmond is thereby showing his support of segregation.
Only a charlatan would try to make that connection, and only a fool would believe him.
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How many pedophiles have inspired you CJP?
None that I know of.
How many segregationists have inspired you?
I think we just have to step back and rationally think if someone is racist or not. Not based on their political views, on their human views
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If your over 60 your a pedifile? give me a break. lol.
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"How many segregationists have inspired you?"
None at all. I never defended Thurmond or Lott. You on the other hand have open several threads defending Jennings who was inspired by a pedophile.
"If your over 60 your a pedifile? give me a break. lol."
I don't even know what this means.
"If your over 60 your a pedifile? give me a break. lol."
Anonymous, is the 60 year old banging children?
CJP their are some sins that are so evil that they taint everything they touch and are associated with. When all people everywhere agree that this is a line not to be crossed. That sort of says it all. Did you know NAMBLA spends a lot of money to legally remove the fences of school playgrounds. I wonder how many child Murders Harry Hay has rubbed shoulders with in this distinguished group of gentlemen.
Datadog:
No one here is saying anything good about NAMBLA. Neither did Kevin Jennings.
We are talking about a baseless, groundless smear of Kevin Jennings, trying to tarnish his good name by connecting him to NAMBLA when he has never had anything to do with them. My posts are in response to this vicious, dirty smear campaign.
Jenning said he was inspired by Harry Hay. Would it be OK to be inspired by Hitler. No I don't think so. This is a case of shameless justification, maybe if your life was touched in some way by these evil predators of children you could understand.
Fortunately, I have not had such an experience. I'm very sorry if you have.
Datadog:
Harry Hay was not a pedophile. He died at 90, and for over 40 years he had a very committed relationship with a gay man roughly his age.
I have found nothing about Harry Hay which suggests that he was ever a pedophile or was ever accused of child molesting or anything of the sort.
On the contrary, Harry Hay was the opposite of a pedophile -- a 180 degree polar extreme opposite.
Harry Hay said that when he was 13 he started working to help support his family, and when he was 14 he started looking for sex with older men. He was sexually active at 14 and he wanted sex with an older man. He was not interested in having sex with someone younger than himself. He was not a pedophile or a child molester.
His point was that, if he could work as an adult at 13, he should be able to start having sex with older people at 14. He did not want the statutory rape laws to apply to him because that would mean what he was doing was wrong, and he did not believe he was doing anything wrong. He called himself a child who was molesting adults, not the other way around.
In no way was Harry Hay ever an adult who molested children. He was interested sexually in adults, not in children. There are people today who are calling Harry Hay a pedophile, but I have not found one single fact anywhere to support such an accusation.
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