Chelsea Clinton at the Women Deliver conference in Kuala Lumpur.
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Speaking to the The Associated Press during a visit to Malaysia, Chelsea Clinton, who's already known to be a LGBT equality advocate, said she plans to speak out for gay rights and to become more involved in the international health projects of her father's foundation.
Clinton was speaking on the sidelines of the Women Deliver conference in Kuala Lumpur after visiting Burma earlier this week. Her father's Clinton Foundation will be working with authorities in Burma to distribute medicine and health products, including HIV drugs and child vaccines, at cheaper prices.
She was quoted in the AP interview that besides the Clinton Foundation's initiatives, she was committed to supporting gay rights, including marriage equality.
"It just seems so fundamental to me. I'm able to marry the person I wanted to marry," Clinton said. "That's the fundamental human imperative. Those of us who have been lucky enough should expand these rights to others." She is married to investment banker Marc Mezvinsky.
The report further noted that the younger Clinton often tweets messages supportive of gay rights. Earlier this month, she called it "progress" when France's new gay marriage law came into force and urged her followers to help build "an equitable world for all" while marking International Day Against Homophobia.
Last year, Clinton, as an NBC News special correspondent and supporter of LGBT equality, challenged anti-gay pastor Rick Warren on his opposition to marriage equality.
When Warren suggested that Clinton’s (and other journalists') questions are part of a “hidden agenda,” she responded saying: "It’s not a hidden agenda. But in a year in which we had equal marriage in different ways on the ballot, and now after those votes, there’s equal marriage rights in nine out of our 50 states, and a majority of Americans now said in 2012 that we as a country support equal marriage largely, I think that’s why people keep asking you."
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the Monica Lewinski scandal. To see his daughter becoming
an advocate for LGBT issues is a great thing. However, I do not
really think she understands the Malaysian governments
draconian laws regarding gays. I find it hilarious how the
Malaysian and Indonesian government fear "Lady Gaga" more
than Chelsea Clinton. She would probably enjoy being
arrested under the Sedition Act because it would create a
diplomatic nightmare for Malaysia. I have been to Malaysia
the gay people are wonderful but still have to live with a
repressive government.
May the ripple for the rights to love whom we choose reverberate into waves of tsunami. Asian souls are supposed to be peace loving and all embracing. Let live and love. Peace.
I've heard LGBT rights compared to the Civil Rights movement in the US. Yet, only the lightest-skinned persons of African descent could purposely avoid their natural and reasonable trait of skin color. By "blending in", a gay man or woman implicitly supports bigotry and denial of natural rights to other LGBTs. So, I guess I am saddened that many of us rely on and even expect the openness and fair-mindedness of people like Ms. Clinton to stand up for us when many among us choose to hide even from those we love and who love us (or at least the "us" we pretend to be).
remember; her mother ignored the requests from, what she claimed, was her friend when the lybians killed her "friend" and gay state department worker.
you all are kidding yourselves, and empowering white trash.
wake up
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