Hillary Clinton‘s official announcement supporting same-sex marriage this week has put the right-wing rumor machine back on full throttle, with American Family Association radio host Sandy Rios suggesting the former Secretary of State might be a lesbian. Pointing to failed GOP strategist, possible fraudster, and former Clinton White House adviser Dick Morris, Rios even claimed that in 1994, “under Hillary’s leadership there were even tents on lesbian lovemaking.” (We’re not even sure what that means.)
“If you think that her support of lesbian and gay rights is something new, I’m sorry, she has repackaged herself so successfully but if you just do a little research on Hillary Clinton you know that her love of homosexuality goes back a very long way,” Rios said on her American Family Association AFR radio show yesterday.
Hillary Clinton, there have long been rumors about her sexual persuasion; if you don’t know that you need to know that. I can’t confirm or deny anything; I just remember that Dick Morris was the first one to raise this publicly. He worked with Bill and Hillary Clinton for a number of years and he said on public television, I was shocked because I knew about the rumors, he actually alleged that Hillary was a — he was trying to make excuses for Bill Clinton when he was caught with Monica Lewinsky — and he basically said, I believe it was on Fox many years ago when that broke, basically hinted that Hillary was a lesbian.
All I can tell you there are rumors abound and I guess since it doesn’t matter anymore then it doesn’t matter anymore, does it? So if you think this is like a seismic shift for Hillary Clinton I can guarantee you this is not a seismic shift. She has always, as far as I know back to college, endorsed and embraced all things lesbian and gay, that is her history on this so that shouldn’t be too shocking. She has played the role of wife and cookie-making mother, I’m sorry but this is just the reality of things. We are being caught in this vortex of homosexual advocacy, it’s just amazing.
Rios is no stranger to the fear-mongering and hate-mongering that has become the DNA of the American Family Association. While a Fox News contributor, Rios last year said that America’s embrace of Ellen DeGeneres will bring “the complete eradication of the traditional family.â€
Right Wing Watch has the audio.