Ms. Gabbard once highlighted her work wh her father, an anti-gay activist and polician Hawaii, but on Thursday she said her views had changed.
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- TULSI GABBARD ONCE TOUTED WORKG FOR ANTI-GAY GROUP THAT BACKED NVERSN THERAPY
- GABBARD TAKG HEAT OVER PAST ANTI-GAY MENTS
- TULSI GABBARD’S TEAM IS TALKG TO LGBT GROUPS ABOUT HER PAST ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
- TULSI GABBARD, DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL CANDIDATE, APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY PAST
TULSI GABBARD ONCE TOUTED WORKG FOR ANTI-GAY GROUP THAT BACKED NVERSN THERAPY
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard the early 2000s touted workg for her father’s anti-gay anizatn, which mobilized to pass a measure agast same-sex marriage Hawaii and promoted ntroversial nversn therapy. * tulsi gabbard lgbt *
Gabbard takg heat over past anti-gay ments. Tulsi Gabbard the early 2000s touted workg for her father’s anti-gay anizatn, which mobilized to pass a measure agast same-sex marriage Hawaii and promoted ntroversial nversn therapy.
Although Gabbard’s posns on LGBT rights have shifted dramatilly more recent years (she signed a 2013 amic brief supportg Edh Wdsor’s challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act), the extent of Gabbard’s past anti-gay activism has already drawn cricism om proment Democrats and will likely be a major issue for her as she seeks the party’s nomatn. Gabbard’s father ran The Alliance for Tradnal Marriage, a polil actn mtee aimed at opposg pro-gay lawmakers and legislatn that anized and spent more than $100, 000 to pass an amendment 1998 that gave the Hawaii state legislature power to “rerve marriage to oppose-sex upl.
Gabbard’s father Mike was a proment anti-gay activist Hawaii.
GABBARD TAKG HEAT OVER PAST ANTI-GAY MENTS
Printial hopeful Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard sought to expla her shift away om advotg anti-gay polici the early 2000s on Sunday, sayg her time the ary ed her to “go through some soul-searchg.” * tulsi gabbard lgbt *
He was also the director of Stop Promotg Homosexualy and also served on the steerg mte of the Natnal Campaign to Protect Marriage and the Hawaii-based aln, Save Tradnal Marriage. He also once hosted an anti-gay rad show, Let’s Talk Straight Hawaii. The Alliance for Tradnal Marriage lled homosexualy “unhealthy, abnormal behavr that should not be promoted or accepted society.
A CNN KFile review of the anizatn’s webse, which is archived on the Inter Archive’s Wayback Mache, unvers the anizatn supported ntroversial gay nversn therapy, which treats homosexualy as a mental illns that n be fixed. “Our w Hawaii, along wh Alaska’s victory, sends a very clear msage to the homosexual movement-we do not want homosexual marriage advot forcg their valu on our muni, ” Tulsi’s father Mike wrote a msage on the webse of the group shortly after the passage of the nstutnal amendment 1998. “While we mt ntue to monor and rpond to homosexual activists whose ultimate goal is societal acceptance of homosexualy on an equal basis as heterosexualy, we mt also renew our efforts to reach out wh love and passn to those who are addicted to homosexual behavr, and enurage them to seek help through the Natnal Associatn of Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy (NARTH), ‘ex-gay’ mistri such as Exod Internatnal, Courage, Homosexuals Anonymo and Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (P-FOX).
TULSI GABBARD’S TEAM IS TALKG TO LGBT GROUPS ABOUT HER PAST ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
The Hawaii Democrat and 2020 printial hopeful released a vio on Thursday sayg her “past posns” on gay rights are “at odds” wh her current valu. * tulsi gabbard lgbt *
In , she attacks gay rights activists who were opposed to her mother Carol’s bid for the state’s board of tn. “This war of ceptn and hatred agast my mom is beg waged by homosexual activists bee they know, that if elected, she will not allow them to force their valu down the throats of the children our schools, ” Gabbard is quoted as sayg.
Tulsi Gabbard’s anti-gay efforts ntued after she beme a state reprentative. “As Democrats we should be reprentg the views of the people, not a small number of homosexual extremists. In the 2020 electn, every ndidate’s rerd on LGBTQ rights will be cril — and that clus both statements their past and how they’re prentg themselv the media right two years, we’ve lived unr a print who has btally asslted LGBTQ rights at every opportuny, after havg sced a placent media to thkg that he’d evolved too and that he was actually “more acceptg on gay issu, ” as The New York Tim famoly put .
TULSI GABBARD, DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL CANDIDATE, APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY PAST
CNN’s KFile disvered Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), who announced she is nng for print 2020, touted workg for her father’s anti-gay anizatn the early 2000s, which mobilized to pass a measure agast same-sex marriage Hawaii and promoted ntroversial nversn therapy. * tulsi gabbard lgbt *
Mike Gabbard, a Hawaii legislator who helped drive the fight agast marriage equaly the state, head up the Alliance for Tradnal Marriage and Stop Promotg Homosexualy, which promoted harmful nversn younger Gabbard, elected to the Hawaii legislature herself 2002 at the age of 21, railed agast “homosexual extremists” 2004, g out agast same-sex civil unns her state. That same year she opposed anti-bullyg legislatn meant to protect gay stunts, argug that would teach young people that homosexualy is “normal and natural. Tulsi Gabbard has recently signaled that her transformatn on LGBTQ rights don't go very Segar / RtersHowever, a 2016 terview wh the publitn Ozy, Gabbard suggted that her personal beliefs on homosexualy actually haven’t changed:It was, she says, the days the Middle East that tght her the dangers of a theocratic ernment “imposg s will” on the people.
)It’s not exactly fortg as a gay man to know that a polician cid you should be afford civil rights as a matter of policy while she still personally thks you’re immoral. Bucher plaly said durg his unsuccsful n for Nebraska attorney general, “I do not believe homosexualy should be nsired the same way race or ethnicy is nsired wh regard to anti-discrimatn laws which currently apply to race or ethnicy. "But wh days of her cisn, Gabbard is now facg qutns over her work the early 2000's for an anti-gay anizatn n by her father, Mike Gabbard.