deserve trump wrote i m a conservative on this one but liberal on this one. we must have universal health care. trump quit the gop just a few weeks before the 2012 republican primaries and threatened to run as an independent against both parties in the general. he did not. in 2000 trump joined the reform party founded by ross perot whose candidacy in 1992 many republicans think cost them president george h.w. bush his re-election. trump got 15,000 votes in california s 2000 reform party primary. and that year he told the advocate sexual orientation would be quote meaningless in a trump administration. he has never backed gay marriage but told the gay rights magazine he d back a law that quote guarantees gay people the same legal protection and rights as married people. and trump supported ending the military s don t ask don t tell policy more than a decade before president obama did end it. trump calls his gop rivals weak do nothing losers and insists the feedback from sounding the
deserve trump wrote i m a conservative on this one but liberal on this one. we must have universal health care. trump quit the gop just a few weeks before the 2012 republican primaries and threatened to run as an independent against both parties in the general. he did not. in 2000 trump joined the reform party founded by ross perot whose candidacy in 1992 many republicans think cost them president george h.w. bush his re-election. trump got 15,000 votes in california s 2000 reform party primary. and that year he told the advocate sexual orientation would be quote meaningless in a trump administration. he has never backed gay marriage but told the gay rights magazine he d back a law that quote guarantees gay people the same legal protection and rights as married people. and trump supported ending the military s don t ask don t tell policy more than a decade before president obama did end it. trump calls his gop rivals weak do nothing losers and insists the feedback from sounding the
going to have an impact on the same-sex marriage debate here in the u.s.? it s interesting that you mention that line because of course pope francis, named time m magazine s person of the year and he also received it from a gay rights magazine. it s interesting to see the new tone he s brought to this issue and other issues. so the advocate magazine is giving him that designate noted he s not making my big pronouncements in terms of shifting church dock trip, but he s calling for a more inclusive tone. it s not like he s saying we should do this, this or this. he s not demonizing them any more. he is talking about them in a more welcoming way. and, you know, when you talk about his comments on capitalism, i want to talk about that for a second, because it sort of makes you change your perspective on how we view this politically. you have on one side, you know, rush limbaugh calling it poor
smiling. francis has already begun his assent to calvary. when time magazine named him person of the year the world shook off its indifference. when commenting on homosexual priests he said who am i to judge? editorial writers were besides themselves. when a gay rights magazine chose him as person of the year, the of vocal mess sen yes, sirs of the hard right could hardly bear it. cue the critics. the staged rage is actually a form of self-promotion. what better way to attract media attention than tearing down a man of god? tbh this case the leader of the world s 1.5 billion catholics. in doing so they commit the sins that francis has warned against. false pride and errogance. particularly for those pundits who with scant knowledge of church history seek to analyze
just last week, we talked about it on the show. gay rights magazine the advocate has named pope francis person of the year. he said, who am i to judge. keep in mind, when not taping duck dynasty, they tour the country, they host bible studies. they say they re christianed before they re reality tv stars, but can they really be both? phil robertson, if you read this whole article in gq. he told the writer, we re bible thumpers who just happened to end up on television. let me open up this discussion here to we have wilson cruz, the national spokesperson for glaad, and al molar. both of you, welcome. i m glad to have both perspectives. al, i would love to begin with you. i presume you have read the articles and the comments that s phil made to gq. do you agree that this is crude, this is hateful stuff?