“The thg about Brebart and LGBT — and this was discsed — we don’t want to be mean to gays; we want to expose them when they’re beg bulli,” said one Brebart wrer.
Contents:
- STEVE BANNON'S GAY AGENDA
- TMP-BACKED HOE CANDIDATE TELLS STEVE BANNON BEG GAY IS A CHOICE: ‘THEY CAN ACTUALLY CHANGE’
STEVE BANNON'S GAY AGENDA
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WASHINGTON — Steve Bannon isn’t out to promote a socially nservative agenda on homosexualy, say wrers who worked for him at Brebart — but he do have an tert attackg LGBT-rights advot as a way of attackg the mak him an uncerta player fights over LGBT rights si the Whe last month, Print Tmp announced that he would prerve an Obama-era executive orr that bars feral ntractors om discrimatg agast LGBT people. “I don't thk [Bannon] has very strong views on the qutn at all … I mean gay rights broadly, ” said Williams, one of the major social nservative voic on the se.
Even then, say people volved those efforts, Bannon seemed more terted amplifyg nservative Catholic voic the service of what he scribed as a “global tea party movement” than bolsterg social nservativ fightg ternally to mata a hard le on homosexualy unr Pope Francis. ”“I don’t thk he wants to wa to” fights wh the Catholic church, Harnwell Re, a long-time Catholic nservative activist who heads the Center for Fay and Human Rights, and who started wrg for Brebart 2013, said he thks Bannon would feel strongly about s like "if a Catholic NGO was ma to" vlate their beliefs the name of honorg gay rights. But the edorial le at Brebart was to attack LGBT rights activists, but not weigh to fights over homosexualy self.
“The thg about Brebart and LGBT — and this was discsed — we don’t want to be mean to gays; we want to expose them when they’re beg bulli, ” said Re, who recently left the se to wre a may not have been the most natural f for Re, who has lamented that nservativ have stopped mpaigng agast sodomy as a social ill or allegg a nnectn between homosexualy and pedophilia. But unlike olr social nservative media, Re told BuzzFeed News, Brebart wasn’t so ncerned wh fightg over the moraly of homosexualy or even necsarily bolsterg efforts to reverse marriage equaly after the Supreme Court’s 2015 lg.
TMP-BACKED HOE CANDIDATE TELLS STEVE BANNON BEG GAY IS A CHOICE: ‘THEY CAN ACTUALLY CHANGE’
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Instead, was takg aim at what the se dubbed the “Big Gay Hate Mache” and LGBT rights anizatns the se believ is out to get Christians and silence ee speech. “The big missn at Brebart is to change the liberal narrative, ” Re said, not “gog after gays per se. It was about Matthew Shepard, the 19-year-old gay man who beme a natnal symbol of anti-LGBT vlence when he was murred 1998.
His story helped get a natnal hate crime law cludg protectns for LGBT people, passed 11 years proposed a story assertg Shepard wasn’t the victim gay rights groups ma him out to be. The story of Matthew Shepard was “haggraphy” fabrited by “the gay tablishment, ” evince that “the agenda of the sexual left liv on li. ”Many LGBT rights supporters may see ltle difference between attackg gay rights activists and gay people, pecially given Brebart’s bative tone.
But on issu affectg gay men and lbians, he said there’s a marked difference between the uniform Brebart posn opposn to somethg like Islam and the range of opns on the se about homosexualy.