I'm glad former President Reagan saw fit to do the right thing in an appalling way, but saying his record on homosexuality was "mixed" strains credulity to the breaking point. We're taking about an administration that fight tooth and nail to avoid even acknowledging AIDS, even as some of his wife's best friends were dying of it. And even…
I'm glad former President Reagan saw fit to do the right thing in an appalling way, but saying his record on homosexuality was "mixed" strains credulity to the breaking point. We're taking about an administration that fight tooth and nail to avoid even acknowledging AIDS, even as some of his wife's best friends were dying of it. And even in your story, Reagan was not defending gay people. He was defending a number of principles, some of them worthy, but the right of gay people to live as they saw fit was explicitly not one of them.
One can argue that Reagan was a man of his time, or any number of other mitigating factors. But to say his record on LGBT issues was "mixed" is fundamentally unsupported by events. His record was bad.
I'm glad former President Reagan saw fit to do the right thing in an appalling way, but saying his record on homosexuality was "mixed" strains credulity to the breaking point. We're taking about an administration that fight tooth and nail to avoid even acknowledging AIDS, even as some of his wife's best friends were dying of it. And even in your story, Reagan was not defending gay people. He was defending a number of principles, some of them worthy, but the right of gay people to live as they saw fit was explicitly not one of them.
One can argue that Reagan was a man of his time, or any number of other mitigating factors. But to say his record on LGBT issues was "mixed" is fundamentally unsupported by events. His record was bad.