California Dems Trash America’s Gay Hero Senate Dems walk out on Ric Grenell, America’s first openly gay presidential cabinet member. by Lloyd Billingsley
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“As Pride month nears an end,” Katy Grimes of the California Globe reports, “Republican lawmakers announced they were honoring Ambassador Grenell, the first openly gay presidential cabinet member, for his accomplishments and stellar career in service to the country.”
As Bruce Bawer noted in 2020, Grenell is “America’s gay hero,” with distinguished service as US ambassador to Germany and director of national intelligence. It was acting DNI Grenell who “declassified the list of Obama Administration officials who, in the interval between the 2016 election and the Trump inaugural, requested the ‘unmasking’ of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s choice for National Security Advisor, so they could listen in on his phone calls.” That service cut no slack with California Democrats.
Cheers rang out in the California Senate, Grimes explains, “until five Senators walked out during Republican Senator Brian Jones’ introduction of Grenell.” The walkout followed a “nasty Tweet” on June 26 from San Francisco Democrat Sen. Scott Wiener:
“This is their way of celebrating Pride, by bringing in a guy who is truly a self-hating gay man, who takes tons of anti-LGBTQ positions There are plenty of gay Republicans who don’t do the unhinged things that [Grenell] does. I’m not lumping all gay Republicans together – he is a particularly vile person.”
According to Weiner, “Grenell is a self-hating gay man. He’s a scam artist pink-washer for Trump & spreads anti-LGBTQ, anti-vax, election-denier conspiracy theories.” The former ambassador and director of national intelligence wasn’t going to take it.
“It’s an honor to be your enemy,” Grenell responded. “You are a radical voice against common sense, decency and parental rights. You are an apologist for pedophilia [and] child abuse – and you undermine American values.”
Sen. Weiner is the author of California Senate Bill 145, which would “exempt from mandatory registration under the [Sex Offender Registration] Act a person convicted of certain offenses involving minors if the person is not more than 10 years older than the minor and if that offense is the only one requiring the person to register.” Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Weiner’s bill in September 2020.
California Senate Resolution 33 proclaims June 2023 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride Month. Earlier in June the state senate held an LGBTQ recognition ceremony with Sister Roma of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Sen. Weiner blamed “right-wing extremists” and “bigoted extremists” for tearing down Target displays.
Berkeley Democrat Nancy Skinner used the occasion to proclaim that right-wing extremists were “trying to undo LGBTQ rights.” Menlo Park Democrat Josh Becker charged that “rising homophobia and transphobia coincides with antisemitism and white supremacy.” And so on.
As Grimes noted, Democrats recognized the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for their identity. By contrast, the June 26 event recognized actual accomplishment. Honorees included rugby athletes from Cal State Sacramento, but when it came to Ric Grenell “decorum fell to the wayside” and tolerance was nowhere in evidence.
“I’ve made it clear that I am not asking for special treatment or special rights — just equal access and consideration,” said Grenell in a 2020 interview. “It is important to me that I not be defined by my sexual orientation — I want to be defined by my experience and skills. It undercuts all that I want to do in my career when I’m narrowly defined as a gay ambassador. I’d rather be known as the ambassador who got Germany to ban Hezbollah and finally take back the Nazi prison guard living in the US for over a decade.”
Grenell “negates the leftist obsession with group identity,” Bruce Bawer explains, “and by serving his country, his president, and the cause of justice so spectacularly well, he provides a stellar role model for other gay Americans who don’t want to be defined by their sexual orientation but by the content of their character and the value of their contribution to the common good.”
The former ambassador and DNI also refutes the stereotype that “all gays are pedophile socialist drag queens.” And the fact that a gay man played a key role in the Trump Administration, “drives the left absolutely nuts.” That helps explain the walkout, and joining Sen. Weiner were Democrats Caroline Menjivar, Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, Henry Stern, and Toni Atkins.
“Today they walked out when I walked in,” Grenell said. “And I wasn’t even speaking.”
“We are everywhere – we are Christians and tolerant,” he added. “Fifty percent of gays and lesbians are voting Republican now. . . it’s common sense. The left has lost the narrative.”
Grenell also expressed concern that minor children are being coerced into gender transitioning. “It’s child abuse,” the former DNI said, “and a parental rights issue.”
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