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Contents:
- WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
- 20 YEARS AGO, LGBT MEDIA SWOONED OVER DONALD TMP’S SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS
- TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
The print's LGBTQ supporters say that the Tmp admistratn has ma gay rights a "non-issue, " cg his iendships wh gay men and his appotment of at least two openly gay feral judg. Tmp pick and former Actg Director of Natnal Intelligence Richard Grennell claimed Tmp is the "most pro-gay print history" a mpaign ad released on Twter Augt.
In the ad, he c Tmp's efforts to help the gay muny, cludg fight agast the "homophobic regime" of Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah.
Patrick Bumatay, an openly gay Filipo-Amerin judge also selected by Tmp, was nfirmed to the US Court of Appeals for the Nth Circu December 2019. 19He said he wouldn't challenge the Supreme Court's cisn to legalize gay marriage bee 's already wrten to lawCred: Getty - Contributor. Appotg a small handful of gay people out of thoands of nomatns and makg a very few -- and unfullfilled -- pledg n hardly qualify as acplishments.
20 YEARS AGO, LGBT MEDIA SWOONED OVER DONALD TMP’S SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS
Joked about Pence’s sire to hang LGBTQ people: In 2017, Tmp joked about Vice Print Pence’s anti-gay agenda sayg “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all! One month after the June 2016 shootg at the gay nightclub Pulse, Tmp promised durg his lengthy speech at the Republin Natnal Conventn to protect the targeted LGBTQ muny om Islamic Terrorism. Jt months earlier, March, Tmp told PEOPLE that he “would have liked to have seen [gay marriage laws be] a state thg, but the urts have led.
), torturo efforts to pronounce the ials the muny go by, and a high-rankg gay appotee (now out of ernment) who was not exactly beloved by LGBTQ+ people. In the discrimatn s brought by gay men Gerald Bostock and Donald Zarda, and transgenr woman Aimee Stephens, to the Supreme Court, the Tmp Jtice Department filed briefs argug that Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans sex discrimatn, don't apply to discrimatn based on sexual orientatn or genr inty. And Noel Francis, then Tmp's solicor general, argued the 2017 Masterpiece Cakhop Supreme Court se that the bakery owner's relig beliefs gave him the right to refe service to a gay uple who wanted a weddg ke.
TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
Jeff Ssns, Tmp's first attorney general, had a long rerd of homophobia and transphobia as a senator and add to as AG, willgly revokg the trans stunt guidance and settg up a "relig liberty" task force. And the vice print -- a heartbeat away om the princy -- is big-time homophobe Mike Pence, he of "license to discrimate" laws and more. The Jtice Department ma an unexpected move last July when stepped to a major feral lawsu to argue the Civil Rights Act of 1964 don’t protect gay workers om discrimatn.