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by Republins and Democrats, then <a href=" target=_blank>issued an amendment</a> strikg precisely three of them — all programs providg hog and related assistance for those need the LGBTQ+ muny. To add sult to jury, the amendment also banned the display of “extraneo flags” (read: Pri flags) at fund facili and forba discrimatn “agast a person who speaks or acts acrdance wh a scerely held relig belief or moral nvictn of what nstut tradnal marriage.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But discrimatg agast LGBTQ+ people is apparently a-okay.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-VkPmP hi-for-prt"><div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Rep. 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Mike Quigley (Ill.) lled .</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Rep. Mark Pon (D-Wis.), who is gay, ma <a href=" target="_blank">a powerful, personal appeal</a>. “If you were to take away earmarks bee they went to the NAACP or the Urban League, you would, rightfully so, be lled racist bigots!” he shouted. “But when you do to the LGBT muny, ’s another ick’ day Congrs.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Pon spoke of when he received a piece of mail wh the words “Dead Faggot” over his photo, and when he was once beaten bloody and unnsc wh a baseball bat after leavg a gay bar. “This is what you guys do by troducg amendments like this,” he said, addg that the actn was “sptg on every sgle person who is LGBTQ+.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Repeatedly, Harris rose to mand that Democrats’ words be “taken down” for impugng his motiv. His hysterics forced Appropriatns Commtee Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-Tex.) to ll a seri of recs, g the hearg to drag on for hours.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But Harris’s own words impugned his character more than any Democrat’s uld. The 30 other Republins on the mtee, wns to this ugly spectacle, had not one but two chanc to distance themselv om such flagrant discrimatn. But a pair of party-le vot on the amendment, they stead planted themselv firmly on the si of prejudice.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="O4SF6T24CBHUTH5DRHHDGS723A"><div>But he’s our bigot</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Wh irony short supply, Republins went om the scene of Harris’s bigotry to the Hoe floor — where they nounced bigotry. This particular type of bigotry was different, however, bee me om a Democrat.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Rep. Praa Jayapal (Wash.) had lled Israel a “racist state” over the weekend. After dozens of her Democratic lleagu and Hoe Democratic lears <a href=" target=_blank>nounced her statement</a>, she <a href=" target=_blank>issued an apology</a> and clarified that “I do not believe the ia of Israel as a natn is racist.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Still, Hoe Republins, sensg a polil opportuny, shed to the floor wh a rolutn affirmg that “the State of Israel is not a racist or apartheid state” and that “Congrs rejects all forms of antisemism and xenophobia.” Noble sentiments both (’s one thg to ll the Netanyahu regime racist but entirely different to so brand the entire Jewish state), and the rolutn <a href=" target=_blank>passed by an overwhelmg 412-9 vote</a>. Jayapal herself was among the ay.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-VkPmP hi-for-prt"><div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Only one lawmaker spoke on the floor agast the rolutn: Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). Unlike Jayapal and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mn.), who showed ntrn and sought nciliatn after g offense, Tlaib, <a href=" target="_blank">as I have </a><a href=" target="_blank">tailed</a>, has been an unrepentant antiseme. She ntued that dishonorable tradn on the Hoe floor this week, absurdly claimg as an example of Israel’s racism that Israel’s print “has long advoted agast terracial marriage.” (His actual ncern is about the loss of Jewish inty <a href=" target="_blank">ter<i>fah</i> marriag</a>.)</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Tlaib’s bigotry is no more acceptable than Andy Harris’s. Happily, Democrats ma clear that they won’t fend the haters their party jt bee they have the letter D after their nam. Would that Harris’s lleagu had the same urage.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Frh om s p nunciatns of antisemism, the Hoe Judiciary Commtee proceed wh a hearg two days later featurg <a href=" target="_blank" class="ntextual_lk">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a>, now a proment antiseme. Days before his Hoe appearance, <a href=" target=_blank>Kennedy had alleged</a> that vid-19 uld be a “bweapon” that was “ethnilly targeted” to spare “Ashkenazi Jews and Che.” But this is a bigot Republins are happy to tolerate — bee he’s mountg a primary challenge to <a href=" target="_blank" class="ntextual_lk">Print Bin</a>.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Kennedy, at the hearg of the “weaponizatn” submtee, labeled the charg of bigotry “famatns and malignanci that are ed to censor me.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But they are his own words. He prevly suggted that public health rtrictns durg the panmic were worse than life for Jews Nazi Germany, bee “you uld hi an attic, like Anne Frank did.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) tried to fend Kennedy’s vile ments, enterg to the rerd a medil study that Kennedy said supported his claims. But the study said nothg about ethnic targetg or bweapons.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Kennedy’s crackpot ias go well beyond vid to the bunked claim that childhood vacc e tism, that WiFi “leaky bra,” that chemils the water supply might turn children transgenr, that AIDS might not be ed by HIV, that Republins stole the 2004 electn and that 5G works are ed for mass surveillance.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-VkPmP hi-for-prt"><div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But Republins on the panel accepted at face value Kennedy’s claims that he’s a victim of ernment censorship — claims he ngoly has ma his many media appearanc, <a href=" target=_blank>tweets</a> to his 2 ln followers and, of urse, this week’s televised ngrsnal hearg, rried live on Fox News. (Unhelpfully to the Republins, Kennedy also ttified that he was censored by the Tmp admistratn.)</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The weaponizatn panel’s Republin chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (Oh), opened the hearg wh an example of the “censorship” of RFK Jr.: a 2021 tweet which Kennedy said baseball great Hank Aaron’s ath was “part of a wave of spic aths among elrly closely followg admistratn of vid vacc.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><a href=" target="_blank">Jordan said Kennedy</a> was “jt potg out facts” the tweet, yet the Bin admistratn was “tryg to censor the guy who’s actually their Democratic primary opponent.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In realy, Aaron’s ath, om natural , wasn’t spic. And Kennedy wasn’t Bin’s primary opponent 2021. More to the pot, mtee Democrats noted that Twter never took down the tweet, which remas onle to this day.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Apparently, Jordan and Kennedy have both lost their mds as well as their cency. Mt be somethg the water.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="LLCG2DAKMJG6VBZR4ZRJOPWUJY"><div>The Commtee to Invtigate Hunter Bin’s Genals</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Hoe Republins would like you to know that they are not — repeat, <i>not </i>— obssed wh the print’s son, Hunter Bin. No sirree.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“We don’t re about Hunter Bin,” Rep. William Timmons (R-S.C.) said <a href=" target="_blank">at this week’s </a><a href=" target="_blank">hearg</a> on — you gused — Hunter Bin, held by the Hoe Oversight Commtee. “We re about our untry’s natnal secury cisns and whether our print is promised. That’s why we’re here.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Timmons’s disavowal of an fatuatn wh Hunter Bin, the latt of many such rual nials by Hoe Republins, might have been more persuasive if had not been followed, a mere 46 mut later, by a public display the mtee room of nu photos of Bin engagg sex acts.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I would like to let the mtee and everyone watchg at home that parental discretn is advised,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said cheerily before displayg, for a live televisn dience, three posters featurg blown-up imag, apparently taken om Bin’s laptop, of a nu woman Greene lled a prostute servicg the print’s son a variety of ways. The private parts were blacked out, but not Bin’s face.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font--article-body font-py gray-darkt ma-0 pb-md" dir="null">“Hunter rerd multiple sex tap wh a prostute he had paid for out of his law firm’s bank acunt,” announced one of the posters.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">So this is how Republins show that they “don’t re about Hunter Bin.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The panel’s rankg Democrat, Rep. Jamie Rask (Md.), protted. “Should we be displayg this, Mr. Chairman?”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Evintly, Chairman Jam Comer (R-Ky.) thought they should, bee he let Greene exceed her allotted time by 50 percent and did not terpt nor reprimand her for the pornographic display.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">It was yet another low for Hoe Republin “vtigators.” They ntue to e up empty their hop of provg Print Bin rpt. So why not display photos of his son, at the height of his dg addictn, havg sex?</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Today’s hearg is like most of the majory’s vtigatns and heargs,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said after Greene’s vulgary. “A lot of allegatns, zero proof, no receipts, but apparently some dick pics.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Last month, the print’s troubled son reached a al wh feral prosecutors which he will plead guilty to two mor tax crim and adm to a gun charge. Comer clared a “sweetheart al” — and said he had two “whistleblowers” who uld prove that Hunter Bin got favorable treatment bee of his father.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">Jim Geraghty: Bin liv nial about fay problems. But that’s no way to ern.</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Wh great fanfare, he brought them before the mtee Wednday: two IRS agents (one dramatilly advertised as “Whistleblower X”). The pair did ttify that they believed prosecutors had gone easy on Bin for polil reasons. But once aga, Comer’s wns didn’t have the goods.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Their plats about how prosecutors were handlg the Bin se began 2019 and ntued 2020, durg the Tmp admistratn. That’s when, the whistleblowers alleged, “junr varsy” prosecutors the Jtice Department were engaged “electn meddlg” to benef the elr Bin.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">So Tmp’s DOJ tried to throw the 2020 electn to Bin by givg his son kid-glove treatment? Mak total sense.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">There was also the nvenient matter of the prosecutor who stck the al wh Hunter Bin beg a Tmp appotee — and that Tmp-appoted <a href=" target=_blank>prosecutor’s </a><a href=" target=_blank>ntradictn</a> of the whistleblowers’ claims.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The whistleblowers wanted to charge Bin wh multiple feloni, but the prosecutor disagreed — and that’s a rather mon occurrence. The lead whistleblower, Gary Shapley (Whistleblower X, Joseph Ziegler, works for him), admted that ernment lawyers have disagreed wh his prosecutn remendatns 90 percent of the time.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">And what do all this have to do wh the bribery, money-lnrg and fluence-peddlg that Comer acc Print Bin of? Not much. Once aga, Comer’s mtee was left wh nothg but s own wild allegatns.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“The Amerin people n see pla as day the rptn, bribery and crimal actns of the Bin fay,” Timmons alleged (though even he admted there was no “direct evince” implitg the print). “We are here to do the jobs that the DOJ, the FBI and the IRS refed to do.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">And that job is to show a lot of photos of Hunter Bin flagrante licto.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="BRSYP6D2RRFZ5P7KKNJP6CY7VU"><div>A textbook se of an Anti-Edutn Commtee</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Earlier this year, 161 Hoe Republins, or nearly three-quarters of the uc, <a href=" target=_blank>voted </a>to <a href=" target=_blank>elimate </a>the Edutn Department. Those votg to remove the feral ernment entirely om tn clud a supermajory of Republins on the Hoe Edutn and Workforce Commtee.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">It’s the equivalent of havg a supermajory of Republins on the Armed Servic Commtee support of abolishg the ary.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">This might expla why the Edutn and Workforce Commtee has been nspicuoly unproductive this year. Though has had numero heargs on culture-war issu, has held only five markups seven months, producg jt six bills that are remotely tn-related: assertg “parents’ rights,” blockg transgenr athlet and Print Bin’s stunt bt relief, protectg <a href=" target=_blank>sugar-add whole k</a> schools — and two bills opposg the e of school facili to shelter “aliens.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">That last one appears to be a solutn search of a problem. Yet this week, the Hoe took up s send bill as many months batg the supposed surge of schools shelterg migrants.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“In May, New York Cy ntemplated an unthkable actn: They planned on g public elementary and sendary schools to hoe migrants seekg asylum,” Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), chairman of the Rul Commtee, said as the latt bill (blockg feral funds for schools that shelter migrants) <a href=" target="_blank">me through his panel</a> this week.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Planned? Has any school <i>actually</i> hoed migrants? Rep. Virgia Foxx (R-N.C.), chair of the Edutn and Workforce Commtee, had apparently not bothered to fd this out. She blhely claimed was happeng “ blue-state strongholds across the natn” (where, she imaged, the “adult mal” endanger schoolchildren).</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Rep. Tera Leger Fernanz (D-N.M.) told Foxx there is only “one state that we do know of that has hoed migrants” schools. “Do you know what state that is, Madam Chairwoman?”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“No ia,” replied Foxx.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“It was actually a red state,” Leger Fernanz rmed her. “Texas.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Had not heard that,” the cur Foxx said.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Rep. Joe Nege (D-Colo.) prsed the chairwoman on the woeful rerd of her anti-tn mtee. He asked whether her panel had moved any bills related to teacher pay, gun vlence schools, panmic learng loss, or school meals and hunger.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Foxx admted she had not. But she had time to mark up two bills persecutg migrants — over which the mtee has no jurisdictn — cludg those legally seekg asylum.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Could we expect otherwise om a woman who voted, as Foxx did, to elimate the entire Edutn Department?</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Foxx claimed not to remember the legislatn abolishg the Edutn Department. But, “if the Lord put me charge, I would get the feral ernment out of tn a heartbeat,” she told Nege.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Thankfully, the Lord has ma no such nomatn.</p></div><div class="wpds-c-ipATMk wpds-c-ipATMk-hCiGAB-removeMobileStyl-te"><div class="wpds-c-dhzjXW wpds-c-dhzjXW-iPJLV-css overriStyl mt-md tt"><div id="gift-share-end" data-ttid="gift-share-end" class="PJLV PJLV-idiqKOk-css hi-for-prt"><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="gift-share-drawer" role="button" tabx="0" aria-label="Share this article" id="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-end" data-ttid="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-end" class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-gsmDXe wpds-c-gsmDXe-iIVoLq-placement-Shortcut foc-highlight"><div class="wpds-c-UazGY" id="gift-share-shortcut" data-ttid="gift-share-shortcut"><svg xmlns=" fill="var(--wpds-lors-primary)" 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A week after U.S. Print Donald Tmp was sworn to office, the absence of gay rights issu om the Whe Hoe webse was a worryg sign, mpaigners said on Friday.

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A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021

US print to lbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgenr Amerins at Pri event: ‘My entire admistratn has your back’   * white house lgbt page *

Today, Print Bin issued a proclamatn affirmg June 2021 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pri Month, markg a time a time of hope, progrs, and promise for LGBTQ+ Amerins across the untry. Signg and Leadg Implementatn of a Printial Memorandum on Advancg the Human Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World.

” As prevly highlighted by the Whe Hoe, Departments and Agenci are already makg progrs areas towards the goals outled the Printial Memorandum, cludg: strengthen existg efforts to bat the crimalizatn by foreign ernments of LGBTQ+ people and expand efforts to bat discrimatn, homophobia, transphobia, and tolerance on the basis of LGBTQ+ stat or nduct; protect vulnerable LGBTQ+ refuge and asylum seekers; help ensure the Feral Government has a swift and meangful rponse to ser cints that threaten the human rights of LGBTQ+ persons abroad; and build alns wh like-md natns to unter discrimatn agast LGBTQ+ people around the world. The Bin-Harris Admistratn clus barrier-breakg LGBTQ+ lears, cludg Secretary of Transportatn Pete Buttigieg, who is the first openly gay Cabet Secretary nfirmed by the U. Print Bin has assembled the most diverse Admistratn our Natn’s history, and is proud to serve alongsi the 14 percent of all appote who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer.

Pri is a time to rell the trials the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny has endured and to rejoice the triumphs of trailblazg dividuals who have bravely fought — and ntue to fight — for full equaly. BIDEN JR., Print of the Uned Stat of Ameri, by virtue of the thory vted me by the Constutn and the laws of the Uned Stat, do hereby proclaim June 2021 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month. This memorandum reaffirms and supplements the prcipl tablished the Printial Memorandum of December 6, 2011 (Internatnal Iniativ to Advance the Human Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Persons).

MEMORANDUM ON ADVANCG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD

That memorandum, for the first time, directed executive partments and agenci (agenci) engaged abroad to ensure that Uned Stat diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr persons everywhere. Around the globe, cludg here at home, brave lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI+) activists are fightg for equal protectn unr the law, eedom om vlence, and regnn of their fundamental human rights. Agenci engaged abroad are directed to strengthen existg efforts to bat the crimalizatn by foreign ernments of LGBTQI+ stat or nduct and expand efforts to bat discrimatn, homophobia, transphobia, and tolerance on the basis of LGBTQI+ stat or nduct.

The memoratn as a rampage of discrimatory legislatn gog through Republin-led stateho directed explicly at transgenr than 1, 000 guts attend a piic and ncert by popstar Betty Who on the South Lawn, cludg Send Gentleman Doug Emhoff, Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who is the first out LGBTQ+ member of the Cabet, his hband Chasten, and Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Servic Admiral Rachel Leve, the first out transgenr person to be nfirmed by the among the atten were survivors of last November’s mass shootg at the LGTBQ+ Club Q nightclub Colorado Sprgs and the 2016 mass shootg at Pulse, an Orlando gay the event schled for Thursday, the admistratn lled the biggt Pri event ever held at the Whe Hoe. “When a person n be married the morng but thrown out of a rtrant for beg gay the afternoon, somethg is still very wrong Ameri, ” said the also said that Congrs should pass the Equaly Act, which amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act to clu sexual orientatn alongsi race, relign, sex, and natnal orig. “When a person n be married the morng but thrown out of a rtrant for beg gay the afternoon, somethg is still very wrong Ameri, ” the print said.

At the event Saturday, Bin discsed nontg the HIV epimic, endg limatns placed on gay and bisexual Amerins donatg blood, and batg nversn therapy, which he addrsed through an executive orr durg last year’s Pri Month celebratns. Print Joe Bin on Saturday hosted what he scribed as the largt-ever Whe Hoe event celebratg members of the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny, durg a month dited to celebratg gay pri. Ron DeSantis has signed several bills ncerng LGBTQ+ rights, cludg the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law, which Bin scribed as “hateful.

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OR ARE YOU NEW TO THIS FIELD? CURAT LEARNG OPPORTUNI FOR YOU, AND THE PEOPLE YOU SERVE AND LLABORATE WH.STAY UP TO DATE WH THE WEBARS, TWTER CHATS, NFERENC AND MORE THIS SECTN.MORE LEARNG OPPORTUNIBLOGGET TTED. FD SERVIC + PREPSEARCHGOESPAñOL ESPAñOL ES GET TTED. FD SERVIC + PREPSEARCHOPEN LOTOR SEARCHHIV SERVICES LOCATORSEARCH⨯CLOSEHOMEBLOGFACT SHEET: PRINT BIN TO SIGN HISTORIC EXECUTIVE ORR ADVANCG LGBTQI+ EQUALY DURG PRI MONTHFACT SHEET: PRINT BIN TO SIGN HISTORIC EXECUTIVE ORR ADVANCG LGBTQI+ EQUALY DURG PRI MONTHCONTENT FROM: THE WHE HOE•PUBLISHED: JUNE 27, 2022•11 M READTOPICSDISCRIMATNHIV-RELATED DISCRIMATNLGBTLBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENRNHAS<P>NATNAL HIV AIDS STRATEGY</P>TRANSGENRTRANSGENR PEOPLEWHE HOETHE WHE HOESHARESHARE ON FACEBOOKSHARE ON TWTERSHARE ON LKEDINSHARE ON EMAILCROSS-POSTED OM THE WHE HOE BRIEFG ROOM. ORIGALLY POSTED JUNE 15, 2022.PRINT BIN BELIEV THAT NO ONE SHOULD FACE DISCRIMATN BEE OF WHO THEY ARE OR WHOM THEY LOVE. SCE PRINT BIN TOOK OFFICE, HE HAS CHAMPNED THE RIGHTS OF LGBTQI+ AMERINS AND PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, ACCELERATG THE MARCH TOWARDS FULL EQUALY.AS PRINT BIN SAID DURG HIS FIRST JOT ADDRS TO CONGRS, THE PRINT HAS THE BACK OF LGBTQI+ PEOPLE ACROSS THE UNTRY. THAT IS WHY HE TAKG THE BOLD ACTNS AND NTUG TO FIGHT FOR FULL EQUALY FOR EVERY AMERIN – CLUDG URGG CONGRS PASS THE EQUALY ACT AND PROVI OVERDUE CIVIL RIGHTS PROTECTNS FOR LGBTQI+ PEOPLE.TODAY, TO MARK PRI MONTH, PRINT BIN WILL SIGN AN EXECUTIVE ORR ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LGBTQI+ INDIVIDUALS, AND HE WILL WELE LGBTQI+ FAI, ADVOT, ELECTED OFFICIALS, AND LEARS TO THE WHE HOE FOR A RECEPTN.PRINT BIN’S EXECUTIVE ORR BUILDS ON THE HISTORIC PROGRS HE HAS MA FOR LGBTQI+ PEOPLE BY:ADDRSG DISCRIMATORY LEGISLATIVE ATTACKS AGAST LGBTQI+ CHILDREN AND FAI, DIRECTG KEY AGENCI TO PROTECT FAI AND CHILDREN;PREVENTG SO-LLED “NVERSN THERAPY” WH A HISTORIC IATIVE TO PROTECT CHILDREN OM THE HARMFUL PRACTICE;SAFEGUARDG HEALTH RE, AND PROGRAMS SIGNED TO PREVENT YOUTH SUICI;SUPPORTG LGBTQI+ CHILDREN AND FAI BY LNCHG A NEW IATIVE TO PROTECT FOSTER YOUTH, PREVENT HOMELSNS, AND IMPROVE ACCS TO FERAL PROGRAMS; ANDTAKG NEW, ADDNAL STEPS TO ADVANCE LGBTQI+ EQUALY.ADDRESSING DISCRIMINATORY LEGISLATIVE ATTACKSOVER 300 ANTI-LGBTQI+ LAWS HAVE BEEN TRODUCED STATE LEGISLATUR OVER THE PAST YEAR, AND MANY OF THEM SPECIFILLY TARGET TRANSGENR CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS BY BANNG ACCS TO MEDIL RE AND SUPPORT AT SCHOOL. PRINT BIN IS ADDRSG THE HARMFUL, HATEFUL, AND DISCRIMATORY ATTACKS HEAD-ON – NOT ONLY BY SPEAKG UP FOR AMERI’S FAI, BUT TAKG ACTN TO STAND UP TO THE BULLI TARGETG LGBTQI+ PEOPLE.TO HELP SUPPORT IMPACTED FAI, PRINT BIN IS CHARGG THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVIC (HHS) WH PROTECTG LGBTQI+ CHILDREN AND FAI OM ATTACKS ON THEIR ACCS TO HEALTH RE, AND HAS STCTED HHS TO RELEASE NEW SAMPLE POLICI FOR STAT ON HOW TO EXPAND ACCS TO PREHENSIVE HEALTH RE FOR LGBTQI+ PATIENTS. THE PRINT IS ALSO DIRECTG THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUTN WH ADDRSG THE IMPACTS OF STATE LAWS THAT TARGET LGBTQI+ STUNTS, AND HAS CHARGED THE PARTMENT WH RELEASG A SAMPLE SCHOOL POLICY FOR ACHIEVG FULL CLN FOR LGBTQI+ STUNTS.ADDRESSING “CONVERSION THERAPY”AS A NDIDATE, PRINT BIN PLEDGED TO HELP END SO-LLED “NVERSN THERAPY” – A DISCREDED AND DANGERO PRACTICE THAT SEEKS TO SUPPRS OR CHANGE THE SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY OF LGBTQI+ PEOPLE. TODAY, PRINT BIN IS G HIS EXECUTIVE THORY TO LNCH AN IATIVE TO PROTECT CHILDREN ACROSS AMERI AND CRACK DOWN ON THIS HARMFUL PRACTICE, WHICH EVERY MAJOR MEDIL ASSOCIATN THE UNED STAT HAS NMNED.CHILDREN WHO ARE EXPOSED TO SO-LLED “NVERSN THERAPY” FACE HIGHER RAT OF ATTEMPTED SUICI AND TRMA. NUMERO STAT ACROSS THE UNTRY HAVE ALREADY PASSED BIPARTISAN LAWS TO PREVENT EXPOSURE TO SO-LLED “NVERSN THERAPY,” WH REPUBLIN AND DEMOCRATIC ERNORS SIGNG STATE BANS ON NVERSN THERAPY TO LAW. YET SPE THE EFFORTS, MANY PEOPLE THE UNED STAT AND AROUND THE WORLD ARE STILL SUBJECTED TO THIS PRACTICE.PRINT BIN IS CHARGG HHS WH LEADG AN IATIVE TO RCE THE RISK OF YOUTH EXPOSURE TO THIS DANGERO PRACTICE. HHS WILL EXPLORE GUIDANCE TO CLARIFY THAT FERALLY-FUND PROGRAMS NNOT OFFER SO-LLED “NVERSN THERAPY.” HHS WILL ALSO CREASE PUBLIC AWARENS ABOUT S HARMS, PROVI TRAG AND TECHNIL ASSISTANCE TO HEALTH RE PROVIRS, AND EXPAND SUPPORT FOR SERVIC TO HELP SURVIVORS.PRINT BIN IS ALSO ENURAGG THE FERAL TRA COMMISSN TO NSIR WHETHER THE PRACTICE NSTUT AN UNFAIR OR CEPTIVE ACT OR PRACTICE, AND WHETHER TO ISSUE NSUMER WARNGS OR NOTIC. AND, HE IS DIRECTG THE SECRETARI OF STATE, TREASURY, AND HHS TO VELOP AN ACTN PLAN TO PROMOTE AN END TO SO-LLED “NVERSN THERAPY” AROUND THE WORLD AND ENSURE THAT U.S. FOREIGN ASSISTANCE DOLLARS DO NOT FUND THE PRACTICE.SAFEGUARDING HEALTH CARE AND PREVENTING LGBTQI+ YOUTH SUICIDEBEE OF DISCRIMATN AND BULLYG, NEARLY HALF OF LGBTQI+ YOUTH SERLY NSIRED SUICI LAST YEAR. LGBTQI+ PEOPLE OF ALL AG ALSO FACE SIGNIFINT BARRIERS TO ACCSG HEALTH RE, AND LGBTQI+ PATIENTS FACE SIGNIFINT HEALTH DISPARI. TO SAFEGUARD ACCS TO HEALTH RE FOR LGBTQI+ PATIENTS AND ADDRS THE LGBTQI+ YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS, PRINT BIN IS CHARGG HHS WH TAKG STEPS TO ADDRS THE BARRIERS AND EXCLNARY POLICI THAT LGBTQI+ DIVIDUALS AND FAI FACE ACCSG QUALY, AFFORDABLE, PREHENSIVE HEALTH RE, CLUDG MENTAL HEALTH RE, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RE, AND HIV PREVENTN AND TREATMENT. THE PRINT’S ORR CHARG HHS TO WORK WH STAT TO PROMOTE EXPAND ACCS TO GENR-AFFIRMG RE. IT ALSO CHARG HHS TO HELP PREVENT LGBTQI+ SUICI BY EXPANDG YOUTH ACCS TO SUICI PREVENTN ROURC, AND TO ISSUE NEW GUIDANCE THROUGH THE SUBSTANCE ABE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVIC ADMISTRATN ON PROVIDG EVINCE-RMED MENTAL HEALTH RE FOR LGBTQI+ YOUTH.SUPPORTING LGBTQI+ CHILDREN AND FAMILIESLGBTQI+ CHILDREN AND FAI SERVE THE SAME DIGNY AND RPECT AS ALL AMERIN FAI. BUT LGBTQI+ CHILDREN AND FAI NTUE TO FACE SIGNIFINT BARRIERS AND DISCRIMATN. FOR LGBTQI+ YOUNG PEOPLE, FAY REJECTN N LEAD TO DISPROPORTNATELY HIGH RAT OF HOMELSNS AND OVER-REPRENTATN FOSTER RE. AND FOR LGBTQI+ PARENTS AND HOEHOLDS, SIGNIFINT BARRIERS REMA ACCSG VAL ERNMENT BENEFS AND SERVIC, AND ACHIEVG HOG SECURY. PROVIDG THE YOUNG AMERINS AND FAI WH THE ROURC AND SUPPORT THEY NEED WILL HELP ENSURE MORE CHILDREN AND FAI HAVE ACCS TO LOVG HOM THAT CREASE THE RISK OF ABE AND SUICI. PRINT BIN’S EXECUTIVE ORR WILL: ADDRS DISCRIMATN AND BARRIERS FACED BY LGBTQI+ YOUTH, PARENTS, RETAKERS, AND FAI FOSTER RE. ALTHOUGH LGBTQI+ PARENTS PLAY A VAL ROLE ENSURG THAT EVERY CHILD AMERI HAS A LOVG HOME, AND ARE SEVEN TIM MORE LIKELY TO ADOPT A CHILD OM FOSTER RE, THE PARENTS NTUE TO FACE BARRIERS AND BIAS THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM. TO ADDRS THE DISPARI, PRINT BIN IS CHARGG HHS WH STRENGTHENG LGBTQI+ NON-DISCRIMATN PROTECTNS THE FOSTER RE SYSTEM. HIS EXECUTIVE ORR ALSO CHARG HHS WH LNCHG A NEW IATIVE TO PARTNER WH STATE CHILD WELFARE AGENCI TO IMPROVE OUT FOR LGBTQI+ YOUTH RE; CREASE TRAG FOR CHILD WELFARE PERSONNEL ON BT PRACTIC FOR SUPPORTG LGBTQI+ YOUTH; PROMOTE PLACEMENTS OF CHILDREN TO ENVIRONMENTS THAT WILL SUPPORT THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY; AND STUDY AND ADDRS THE DISPROPORTNATE RAT OF CHILD REMOVALS THAT LGBTQI+ PARENTS FACE, PECIALLY WOMEN OF LOR.SUPPORT FAI WH LGBTQI+ YOUTH. WHEN YOUTH E OUT AS LGBTQI+, PARENTS AND FAY MEMBERS OFTEN SEEK HELP TO LEARN HOW TO BT SUPPORT THEIR CHILD. WHEN CHILDREN FACE REJECTN BY THEIR FAI, THEY RISK HIGHER RAT OF HOMELSNS AND ATTEMPTED SUICI. TO SUPPORT FAI WH LGBTQI+ YOUTH, PRINT BIN IS DIRECTG HHS TO EXPAND ACCS TO VOLUNTARY FAY UNSELG AND SUPPORT PROGRAMS TO HELP SUPPORT YOUTH AND FAI. THE PRINT’S EXECUTIVE ORR ALSO CHARG THE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTN WH REARCHG THE IMPACTS OF FAY REJECTN ON THE MENTAL HEALTH AND LONG-TERM WELLBEG OF LGBTQI+ DIVIDUALS.REVIEW ACCS, AND BARRIERS, FOR FAI TO FERAL PROGRAMS AND BENEFS. IN SPE OF IMPORTANT PROGRS ENSURG THAT SAME-SEX MARRIED UPL N ACCS FERAL PROGRAMS, MANY LGBTQI+ FAI NTUE TO FACE BARRIERS ACCSG VAL BENEFS AND SERVIC. FOR LGBTQI+ PEOPLE WHO HAVE FACED FAY REJECTN AND RELY ON FAY STCTUR WHOUT LEGAL OR BLOOD TI, THE BARRIERS N BE PARTICULARLY PRONOUNCED. TO STRENGTHEN SUPPORTS FOR ALL FAI, THE PRINT’S EXECUTIVE ORR DIRECTS HHS TO NDUCT A STUDY OF HOW CURRENT ELIGIBILY STANDARDS FOR FERAL PROGRAMS IMPACT LGBTQI+ AND OTHER HOEHOLDS, AND ISSUE REMENDATNS FOR MORE CLIVE STANDARDS. THE EXECUTIVE ORR ALSO DIRECTS THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET TO ORDATE WH AGENCI AS THEY SEEK OPPORTUNI TO IMPLEMENT THOSE REMENDATNS THEIR PROGRAMS AND SERVIC.ADDRS LGBTQI+ HOMELSNS AND HOG STABILY. PRINT BIN IS DIRECTG THE DEPARTMENT OF HOG AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT WH LNCHG A NEW WORKG GROUP ON LGBTQI+ HOMELSNS AND HOG EQUY. THAT WORKG GROUP WILL LEAD NEW EFFORTS TO INTY AND ADDRS THE BARRIERS TO HOG FACED BY LGBTQI+ PEOPLE, PROVI GUIDANCE AND TECHNIL ASSISTANCE TO HOG PROVIRS ON SERVG LGBTQI+ DIVIDUALS, AND SEEK NEW FUNDG OPPORTUNI FOR CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE SERVIC THAT ADDRS BARRIERS TO HOG FOR LGBTQI+ DIVIDUALS.SUPPORT LGBTQI+ STUNTS OUR NATN’S SCHOOLS AND TNAL STUTNS. THE PRINT’S EXECUTIVE ORR DIRECTS THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUTN TO TABLISH A NEW WORKG GROUP ON LGBTQI+ STUNTS AND FAI, WHICH WILL ADVANCE POLICI FOR STAT, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AND OTHER TNAL STUTNS TO PROMOTE SAFE AND CLIVE LEARNG ENVIRONMENTS WHICH ALL STUNTS THRIVE.SUPPORT LGBTQI+ YOUTH JUVENILE JTICE SYSTEMS. THE EXECUTIVE ORR CHARG THE ATTORNEY GENERAL WH TABLISHG A NEW CLEARGHOE WH THE OFFICE OF JUVENILE JTICE AND DELQUENCY PREVENTN TO PROVI EFFECTIVE TRAG, TECHNIL ASSISTANCE, AND OTHER ROURC FOR JURISDICTNS TO BETTER SERVE LGBTQI+ YOUTH VOLVED THE JUVENILE JTICE SYSTEM.ADDITIONAL STEPS TO ADVANCE LGBTQI+ EQUALITY
PRINT BIN’S EXECUTIVE ORR ALSO CLUS ADDNAL NEW STEPS TO ADVANCE LGBTQI+ EQUALY, CLUDG:STRENGTHEN SUPPORTS FOR LGBTQI+ OLR ADULTS. OLR LGBTQI+ PEOPLE FACE SIGNIFINT RAT OF DISCRIMATN, ISOLATN, AND POVERTY. THE PRINT’S EXECUTIVE ORR DIRECTS HHS TO PUBLISH A “BILL OF RIGHTS FOR LGBTQI+ OLR ADULTS” AND NEW GUIDANCE ON THE NON-DISCRIMATN PROTECTNS FOR OLR ADULTS LONG-TERM RE SETTGS. IT ALSO CHARG HHS WH EXPLORG NEW LE MAKG TO TABLISH THAT LGBTQI+ DIVIDUALS ARE CLUD THE FN OF POPULATNS OF “GREATT SOCIAL NEED” UNR THE OLR AMERINS ACT.PROMOTE EXPAND FERAL DATA LLECTN ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY. TO STRENGTHEN THE FERAL LLECTN OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY (“SOGI”) DATA, THE PRINT’S EXECUTIVE ORR TABLISH A NEW FERAL ORDATG MTEE ON SOGI DATA, WHICH WILL LEAD EFFORTS ACROSS AGENCI TO INTIFY OPPORTUNI TO STRENGTHEN SOGI DATA LLECTN, WHILE SAFEGUARDG PRIVACY PROTECTNS AND CIVIL RIGHTS FOR LGBTQI+ DIVIDUALS.BUILDING ON HISTORIC PROGRESSTODAY’S ANNOUNCEMENTS BUILD ON THE BIN-HARRIS ADMISTRATN’S HISTORIC PROGRS TO ADVANCE LGBTQI+ EQUALY SCE TAKG OFFICE, CLUDG:STRENGTHENG CIVIL RIGHTS PROTECTNS. ON HIS FIRST DAY OFFICE, PRINT BIN SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORR ON PREVENTG AND BATTG DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBTQI+ AMERINS.ENDG THE BAN ON TRANSGENR SERVICE MEMBERS, AND SUPPORTG LGBTQI+ SERVICE MEMBERS AND VETERANS. PRINT BIN RCD THE DISCRIMATORY BAN ON TRANSGENR SERVICE MEMBERS, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ANNOUNCED THAT HIV-POSIVE SERVICE MEMBERS WH AN UNTECTABLE VIRAL LOAD WILL NO LONGER BE TEGORILLY BARRED OM PLOYG WORLDWI OR MISSNG, NOR WILL THEY BE DISCHARGED OR SEPARATED, SOLELY ON THE BASIS OF THEIR HIV-POSIVE STAT. THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS ALSO STRENGTHENED SERVIC AND SUPPORTS FOR LGBTQI+ VETERANS, CLUDG BY REMOVG THE OUTDATED BAN ON PREHENSIVE GENR-AFFIRMG RE FOR TRANSGENR VETERANS.FIGHTG BACK AGAST STATE-LEVEL ATTACKS ON LGBTQI+ CHILDREN. THE DEPARTMENT OF JTICE HAS TERVENED AND FILED STATEMENTS OF TERT LAWSUS ACROSS THE UNTRY CHALLENGG STATE LAWS THAT SEEK TO BAN TRANSGENR CHILDREN OM ACCSG GENR-AFFIRMG HEALTH RE AND PARTICIPATG SCHOOL ACTIVI AS UNNSTUTNAL.ADVANCG HUMAN RIGHTS FOR LGBTQI+ PEOPLE AMERI’S FOREIGN POLICY. PRINT BIN SIGNED A PRINTIAL MEMORANDUM ON ADVANCG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LGBTQI+ PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD, AND APPOTED THE FIRST SPECIAL ENVOY TO ADVANCE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LGBTQI+ PERSONS AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT.STRENGTHENG SUPPORTS AND PROTECTNS FOR TRANSGENR AMERINS. THE STATE DEPARTMENT NOW OFFERS AN “X” GENR MARKER OPTN TO ENSURE NONBARY AMERINS N ACCS AN ACCURATE FERAL ID. THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURY ANNOUNCED REFORMS TO ADDRS BARRIERS AND HEIGHTENED SCREENG THAT TRANSGENR TRAVELERS OFTEN FACE U.S. AIRPORTS. THE DEPARTMENT OF HOG AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ALSO RTORED KEY PROTECTNS TO ENSURE THAT TRANSGENR PEOPLE EXPERIENCG HOMELSNS N ACCS EMERGENCY SHELTERS NSISTENT WH THEIR GENR INTY.FIGHTG FOR PASSAGE OF THE EQUALY ACT. PRINT BIN NTU TO LL ON THE SENATE TO SWIFTLY PASS THE EQUALY ACT, LEGISLATN, WHICH WILL PROVI LONG OVERDUE FERAL CIVIL RIGHTS PROTECTNS TO LGBTQI+ AMERINS AND THEIR FAI.RENEWG THE U.S. ERNMENT’S MMENT TO ENDG THE HIV EPIMIC AT HOME AND AROUND THE WORLD. PRINT BIN RELEASED A NEW NATNAL HIV/AIDS STRATEGY (PDF 1.8 MB) TO LEAD TOWARD ENDG THE HIV EPIMIC THE UNED STAT BY 2030. THE PRINT RETABLISHED THE WHE HOE OFFICE OF NATNAL AIDS POLICY, AND HAS MA HISTORIC VTMENTS ENDG THE HIV EPIMIC GLOBALLY.APPOTG LGBTQI+ LEARS TO THE HIGHT LEVELS OF OUR ERNMENT. PRINT BIN HAS APPOTED A HISTORILLY DIVERSE ADMISTRATN, CLUDG SECRETARY PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CABET SECRETARY; ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HEALTH ADMIRAL RACHEL LEVE, THE FIRST OPENLY TRANSGENR PERSON EVER NFIRMED BY THE U.S. SENATE; AMBASSADOR CHANTALE WONG, THE FIRST OPEN LBIAN TO ACHIEVE THE RANK OF AMBASSADOR; AND THE FIRST OPENLY GAY WHE HOE COUNSEL, STUART DELERY. FOURTEEN PERCENT OF THE PRINT’S APPOTE INTIFY AS LGBTQI+.ENSURG THE FERAL ERNMENT IS A MOL EMPLOYER FOR LGBTQI+ PUBLIC SERVANTS. PRINT BIN SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG DIVERSY, EQUY, INCLN, AND ACCSIBILY THE FERAL WORKFORCE, WH KEY PROVISNS FOR LGBTQI+ PUBLIC SERVANTS.CELEBRATG PRI AT HOME AND AROUND THE WORLD. PRI IS BACK AT THE WHE HOE AND FERAL BUILDGS THROUGHOUT THE UNTRY ARE PROUDLY FLYG PRI FLAGS THIS MONTH. 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The East Ain natn of Uganda recently passed the so-lled “kill the gays” law, promptg some Ugandans to flee for safety to neighborg Kenya. Whe Hoe prs secretary Kare Jean-Pierre told VOA that the trend of g the law to rtrict gay rights mak this year’s celebratn even more important. The fah muny has mixed views on gay rights and at tim members of the same relig ngregatn will have opposg views on the issue.

Pope Francis this year said homosexualy is not a crime, but that any sexual act outsi of marriage is a s.

Print Bin has appoted a historilly diverse Admistratn, cludg Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay Cabet Secretary; Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Leve, the first openly transgenr person ever nfirmed by the U. Senate; Ambassador Chantale Wong, the first open lbian to achieve the rank of Ambassador; and the first openly gay Whe Hoe Counsel, Stuart Delery.

ABSENCE OF LGBT PAGE OM WHE HOE SE WORRYG SIGN, SAY GAY RIGHTS ADVOT

Flag at their embassy or ’s note:: On June 15, 2022, the Whe Hoe has also released an Executive Orr on Advancg Equaly for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Individuals, and a vio, Print Bin Delivers Remarks to Celebrate Pri Month.

And you belong, ” Bin Month is beg celebrated this year as state lawmakers have troduced at least 525 bills and enacted 78 bills that whtle away at LGBTQ+ rights, acrdg to the Human Rights Campaign, a group that advot for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer tally clus a recent flurry of bills that affect transgenr people, cludg legislatn recently passed by Republin ernors vyg for the 2024 printial Florida, Gov. Pri Month is beg celebrated this year as state lawmakers have troduced at least 525 bills and enacted 78 bills that whtle away at LGBTQ+ rights, acrdg to the Human Rights Campaign, a group that advot for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights. You belong, ” Bin Month is beg celebrated this year as state lawmakers have troduced at least 525 bills and enacted 78 bills that whtle away at LGBTQ+ rights, acrdg to the Human Rights Campaign, a group that advot for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer tally clus a recent flurry of bills affectg transgenr people, cludg legislatn recently passed by Republin ernors vyg for the 2024 printial Florida, Gov.

Print Donald Tmp was sworn to office, the absence of gay rights issu om the Whe Hoe webse was a worryg sign, mpaigners said on the day Tmp was sworn on Jan. 20, referenc to the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) muny were purged om the Whe Hoe webse. As a way that the Tmp admistratn is signalg to portns of s voters and supporters that ‘Hey, we’re not favor of this stuff’, ” he said by his mpaign Tmp held up an LGBTQ rabow flag durg a rally, but his vice print, Mike Pence, has exprsed stnch opposn to gay rights as have some of Tmp’s bet ’s promise to nomate a nservative jtice to fill a vancy on the Supreme Court uld tip the balance over a se volvg a transgenr boy who has sued to e the male rtroom at his public school Virgia, say mpaigners.

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