Thread by @Peoples_Pundit

1. Bill Kristol is one of the worst examples of an unprincipled hack in the Trump Era, I have to tweet this out.

In a 1993 interview with Larry King, Bill Kristol said homosexuality was "a choice" and it was "perfectly reasonable" to discriminate against it.

There's more...

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1272654766498295813

2. Bill Kristol also said during a debate with Tom Stoddard, who was then coordinator for an organization working to get gays into the military, that it was "perfectly reasonable" to discriminate against them.

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3. In June 1997, Bill Kristol attended a conference dedicated to exposing homosexuality as ''the disease that it is", during which he "shared the podium with a variety of clergy members and therapists who advocated a spiritual and psychoanalytic 'cure' for homosexuals."

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4. H/T Andrew Sullivan for reporting on that conference.

In 1998, Bill Kristol told Sam Donaldson and Cokie Robers on ABC News that his evidence for claiming homosexuality was a choice and disease were the existence of people who once claimed to be gay, but no longer.

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5. "I don't think this is political. These people exist, Sam. You may not want them to exist. There are people who say 'I was gay once. I didn't like it. I sought counseling and I now am happily heterosexual.'"

— Bill Kristol to Sam Donaldson and Cokie Robers on ABC News, 1998

6. Are we really to believe — as @brithume argued — that *that* Bill Kristol wouldn't have agreed with @JCNSeverino re: the rewriting of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to cover homosexuals, whom he said were sick and gay by choice?

The Trump Era is ugly with unprincipled hypocrisy.

7. One of the least virtuous characteristics of our politics in the Trump Era, is a willful blindness to hypocrisy and even forgiveness of egregious wrongs for ALL who oppose and criticize Donald Trump.

Bill Kristol, warmonger and more, among the worst examples of the forgiven.