Behd the succs of the Rpect for Marriage Act was a group of proment Republins, some of them gay, who worked to persua G.O.P. senators that embracg was a polil wner.
Contents:
- HOE PASS BILL PROTECTG GAY MARRIAGE—47 REPUBLINS VOTE ‘Y’
- 47 HOE REPUBLINS VOTED FOR GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS. YOUR TURN, SENATE GOP.
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
- GOP DEBATE: TED CZ SAYS GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN BT LEFT TO STAT
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE
HOE PASS BILL PROTECTG GAY MARRIAGE—47 REPUBLINS VOTE ‘Y’
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Clarence Thomas: Court Should Rensir Gay Marriage, Birth Control Decisns Next After Overturng Roe (Forb). There were openly gay officials workg at the hight levels of the Tmp admistratn. And Congrs, the gay rights movement has found alli up and g Republin stars like Rep.
47 HOE REPUBLINS VOTED FOR GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS. YOUR TURN, SENATE GOP.
Proponents ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, opponents ague that marriage is primarily for procreatn. * republican debate gay marriage *
There is more energy the GOP for help for gay and transgenr issu than a lot of issu Bin r about, ” said Tyler Deaton, a Republin nsultant and senr adviser to the Amerin Uny Fund, which works to advance LGBTQ rights. Bh’s 2004 printial n, apologized for the anti-same-sex marriage rhetoric of that mpaign and for his role fightg marriage equaly, while announcg that he was gay. Hedge fund billnaire and Republin donor Pl Sger quietly donated to pro-gay rights and formed the Amerin Uny PAC and Amerin Uny Fund, which fights for LGBTQ and relig eedom.
The real breakthrough, gay Republin operativ say, me wh the nomatn of Donald Tmp.
Though evangelils flocked to his ndidacy, nservative gay rights activists also saw an opportuny.
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
The Hoe of Reprentativ on Tuday passed a bill to dify the right to gay marriage the wake of the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wa * republican debate gay marriage *
A smopolan md bs person, Tmp did not prrize LGBTQ issu durg his mpaign and, fact, ma overt appeals to gay voters, though not by pledgg support for laws to protect them. “For the first time we got to walk to the race wh a ndidate we didn’t have to apologize for or expla away his reluctance to embrace the gay muny.
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
Democratic printial hopefuls strsed their mon ground wh the gay and lbian muny a televised fom, but one signifint exceptn loomed -- same-sex marriage. * republican debate gay marriage *
Probably Reagan was the last ndidate where we were like ‘this ndidate has gay iends, ’” said Charl Moran, spokperson for Log Cab Republins, a LGBTQ GOP group. Gay rights activists and Republins acknowledge there is still much work to be done wh the GOP.
Gay rights advot the party said Republins missed an opportuny to change the platform’s text 2020. His admistratn mted to endg the HIV/AIDS epimic wh 10 years and phed to crimalize homosexualy abroad.
GOP DEBATE: TED CZ SAYS GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN BT LEFT TO STAT
“Donald Tmp’s embrace of people who are LGBT tly did help make OK to be an out, gay Republin, ” said former Whe Hoe puty prs secretary Judd Deere. “As print, he hired and promoted LGBT Amerins to the hight levels of ernment, cludg posns at the Whe Hoe, of which I was honored to be one of those people, Cabet agenci, cludg the first openly gay Cabet member, and ambassadorships. “I thk even wh Christians the gay [marriage] issue, that ship has sailed.
That's bee the polics around gay marriage are a ltle weird. As recently as 2004, Republins ma opposn to gay marriage a top-tier e (some nservativ believe saved Gee W.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
But as public opn began to turn, Democrats reached a new nsens support of gay marriage and started gog on offense. The natnal GOP platform still oppos gay marriage. As the Hoe GOP's still-strong opposn to marriage equaly nfirms, there's legimate reason to qutn the assumptn that gay marriage is a settled issue.
While there are legimate policy challeng at play, the spir of the bat has taken a turn, wh anti-gay "groomer" slurs om the 1970s makg a eback.
It's not hard to see how policians lookg to distguish themselv this arena might turn to gay marriage, perhaps wh the goal of gettg a new ban ont of the urt. Take Texas, where the state GOP reaffirmed s opposn to gay marriage their party platform jt last month. Only one Texas Republin the Hoe, Tony Gonzal, voted "y" on protectns for gay marriage yterday.
GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE
Weber said public views of gay and lbian rights and same-sex marriage have “transformed radilly” across the natn sce Congrs passed the Defense of Marriage Act 1996. Erickson spearhead the anizatn’s efforts to mobilize morate Amerins to support marriage for gay upl by changg the nversatn om legal rights and benefs to the importance of makg a lifetime mment ont of fay and iends. ”Of urse, wasn’t so long ago when same-sex marriage was a non-starter for elected Democrats, the 2004 printial electn, the issue prented a polil quagmire for former senator and secretary of state John Kerry, a Massachetts Democrat who at the time opposed gay marriage but also opposed legislatn that would amend the nstutn to fe marriage as beg between a man and a woman.
”Support for gay marriage among the Amerin public and both parti has ntued to rise.
“The gay marriage change is unlike almost anythg else terms of how much public opn has changed a short number of years, ” he says. Ron DeSantis and his “Don’t Say Gay” law to the newly adopted Texas Republin platform, which refers to homosexualy as “an abnormal liftyle choice.