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.
Contents:
- IN SUPPORT OF AND LGBTQ UPL AND GAY MARRIAGE AS A ‘FUNDAMENTAL EEDOM,’ GOV. CHARLIE BAKER, LT. GOV. KARYN POLO SEND LETTER TO CONGRS
- 11 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT STT LIVELY, THE ANTI-GAY PASTOR CHALLENGG CHARLIE BAKER
- THE GAY-RIGHTS STATE THAT TOOK YEARS TO PROTECT TRANSGENR CIZENS
- GOV. BAKER UNR FIRE OM LEADG GAY AND LBIAN GROUP
- THE GAY-RIGHTS STATE THAT TOOK YEARS TO PROTECT TRANSGENR CIZENS
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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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.
The notor homophobe has the blsg of the MassGOP to face Governor Baker a primary. 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. ”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.
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 *
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.
S District Court judge Michael Ponsor last year dismissed a se brought by a group lled Sexual Mori Uganda, which alleged that Lively’s mpaign the Ain untry had played a role the persecutn of gay Ugandans. Court of Appeals and oral arguments are schled for June 7, reports the Boston has phed ludicro theori about gay Nazis“While we nnot say that homosexuals ed the Holot, ” he and lleague Kev Abrams wrote a thoroughly bunked 1995 book lled The Pk Swastika, “we mt not ignore their central role Nazism. To the myth of the ‘pk triangle’—the notn that all homosexuals Nazi Germany were persecuted—we mt rpond wh the realy of the ‘pk swastika.
’”He lls the Rsian anti-gay law “one of the proust achievements of my reer“Lively has praised a Rsian law passed 2013 that bans “propaganda for non-tradnal sexual relatns among mors, ” which thori have ed to crack down on pri march and ta LGBT activists. ”He has LGBT siblgs“I have a brother and a sister who went to homosexualy, ” he said Uganda.
THE GAY-RIGHTS STATE THAT TOOK YEARS TO PROTECT TRANSGENR CIZENS
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. * charlie baker lgbt *
The Gay-Rights State That Took Years to Protect Transgenr CizensA new Massachetts law mak genr-inty discrimatn fully illegal. Gay marriage has been legal there for more than 12 years—much longer than most other plac. In 1989, beme the send state, after Wisns, to pass discrimatn protectns for lbian, gay, and bisexual yet, until this week, Massachetts law did not fully prohib discrimatn based on genr inty.
But ’s also surprisg that a liberal state wh strong Democratic majori both ho of s legislature has taken this long to pass the kds of protectns for transgenr people, particularly bee of s history on gay reason for the bill’s passage might be that Massachetts don’t want to bee the next North Carola.
This has already led to nflicts over LGBT discrimatn the state, and will probably ntue to do so: Last month, a Catholic high school, Fontbonne Amy, settled a discrimatn claim brought by gay man who was allegedly nied employment bee of his sexual orientatn.
GOV. BAKER UNR FIRE OM LEADG GAY AND LBIAN GROUP
Massachetts Governor Charlie Baker is unr fire om a leadg gay and lbian Natnal Gay and Lbian Chamber of Commerce was set to honor the Governor at a gala dner the natn’s pal later this month, but now they’re pullg the say they’re droppg Baker, unls he cis to not attend a GOP nference Las Vegas this ’re also phg the Governor to back a bill that would protect transgenr people Massachetts om discrimatn malls, rtrants and other public plac. The turbulent event a week after Baker, one of few proment Republins to support gay marriage, was unved om an LBGT event, at which he was origally slated to be honored, part bee of his refal to pledge support for the transgenr public acmodatns bill. 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.
THE GAY-RIGHTS STATE THAT TOOK YEARS TO PROTECT TRANSGENR CIZENS
Personally, I am thankful and grateful for the support he's provid on the LGBT bills that have reached his sk bee he has signed to law some very important measur, " said Arle Isaacson, a Bean Hill lobbyist and -chair of the Massachetts Gay and Lbian Polil Cc. "But for the vast majory of the electorate, the fact that he was gay didn't matter.
Baker was the only ernor the untry 2015 to lend his name to an amic brief to the Supreme Court argug favor of gay marriage across the untry.
Hundreds appld his rerd on gay rights before he took the stage at the Mayflower 2010, when Baker lnched his first bid for ernor, he chose Richard Tisei, a gay lawmaker, as his nng mate. “For the vast majory of the electorate, the fact that he was gay didn’t matter. ”Get Breakg News AlertsStay up-to-date wh important news velopments, livered right to your years later, when he aga ran for ernor, Baker did a mpaign vio featurg a nversatn wh his brother rellg how he told Baker that he is gay.