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As a Massachetts state reprentative, current GOP Lt. Governor ndidate Karyn Polo led the charge for a statewi ballot qutn to ban gay marriage, voted agast the Transgenr Civil Rights bill, and supported Gov. Romney's attempt to dissolve the LGBT Youth Commissn.

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IN SUPPORT OF AND LGBTQ UPL AND GAY MARRIAGE AS A ‘FUNDAMENTAL EEDOM,’ GOV. CHARLIE BAKER, LT. GOV. KARYN POLO SEND LETTER TO CONGRS

Stt Lively, a notor anti-gay Sprgfield pastor, has earned enough vot om legat at the Massachetts Republin state nventn to n a primary agast Charlie Baker the 2018 ernor's race. * charlie baker lgbt *

Many at the rporate workg event for the lbian-gay-bisexual and transgenr muny Wednday night wanted Baker to voice support for a "public acmodatns" bill meant to fend transgenr rights that is currently stalled the state legislature.

When the Republin ernor, who is among a mory his party supportg gay marriage, did not do so, monstrators terpted his speech wh chants, culmatg Baker leavg the stage 20 mut to the speech amid a chos of boos.

Last week, he slammed party learship for beg out of touch wh the “vast majory” of Republins amid asndal over anti-gay remarks a GOP state mteewoman ma toward a gay ngrsnal ndidate.

11 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT STT LIVELY, THE ANTI-GAY PASTOR CHALLENGG CHARLIE BAKER

Charlie Baker 2010 tapped an openly gay state senator om Wakefield as his nng mate, and though they lost, Baker now says that mak him "so happy" to know that was his flt, and not prejudice agast Richard Tisei. Four years later and nng aga, Baker spoke publicly about his brother Alex g out to him the 1980s at the bar One Potato, Two Potato * charlie baker lgbt *

The notor homophobe has the blsg of the MassGOP to face Governor Baker a primary.

THE GAY-RIGHTS STATE THAT TOOK YEARS TO PROTECT TRANSGENR CIZENS

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And the legat at the MassGOP Conventn, who helped him move on to a primary battle wh Charlie Baker, likely know that hasn’t stopped the pastor and world-renowned homophobe om gog through the motns this year, givg him plenty of opportuni to rail agast the “gay agenda” on a major polil this you n thank the 2018 MassGOP Conventn, where nearly 28 percent of legat Worcter this weekend endorsed Lively, helpg him clear the 15 percent mimum need to tee up a primary challenge agast Charlie has pched himself as the pro-Tmp answer to Baker, who is cril of the print, argug over the weekend that “We need real nservative valu Massachetts.

So here are 11 thgs you should know about the pastor, who 626 people suggted should be ernor on spread anti-gay vrl  UgandaIf you know about Lively, probably has a lot to do wh his rise to famy 2009, when he traveled to Uganda to rail agast the “gay agenda” and promote the ia that the untry should crack down on s gay populatn, characterizg the LGBT muny as rapists and pedophil. He also pared gay men to animals and suggted to Ugandan lawmakers that gays were rponsible for rryg out the Holot and the Rwandan genoci.

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”And sparked a vlent crackdown the untryHis tour through the untry, LGBT advot say, provoked a panic  Uganda, spirg headl like “HANG THEM; THEY ARE AFTER OUR KIDS” and leadg papers to prt the nam and imag of gay long after his vis, Ugandan officials proposed the famo Anti-Homosexualy Act. Dubbed a “Kill the Gays” bill Wtern media,  clud ath sentenc for some LGBT cizens for crim that clud gay sex.

THE GAY-RIGHTS STATE THAT TOOK YEARS TO PROTECT TRANSGENR CIZENS

A newly fterg movement is unrway to brg said at the time he didn’t support the Ugandan law as was wrten, and phed back on suggtns that he supports the ath penalty for gay people.

“In my view, homosexualy (ed all sex outsi of marriage) should be actively disuraged by society — but only as aggrsively as necsary to prevent the mastreamg of alternative sexual liftyl, and wh ncern for the prervatn of the liberti of those who sire to keep their personal liftyl private, ” he wrote on his blog  2009.

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In support of and LGBTQ upl and gay marriage as a ‘fundamental eedom,’ Gov. Charlie Baker, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polo send letter to Congrs .

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