Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is fendg an anti-LGBTQ vio his mpaign shared onle that attacks rival Donald Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr people, spe some of his fellow Republins llg homophobic
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DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM
A proment group that reprents LGBT nservativ says a vio shared by Ron DeSantis ′ printial mpaign that slams rival Donald Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr people “ventured to homophobic terrory.” * anti gay trump *
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March 2019: Tmp refed to sign onto a statement by Uned Natns member natns llg for “a swift, thorough and impartial vtigatn to the alleged persecutn” of gays and lbians the Rsian republic of Chechnya. A proment group that reprents LGBTQ nservativ says a vio shared by Ron DeSantis ′ printial mpaign that slams rival Donald Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr people “ventured to homophobic terrory.
DeSantis' mpaign shared a vio that attacked Tmp for his support of LGBTQ rights, promptg wispread backlash. Both ndidat have rolled back protectns for trans and gay people office. * anti gay trump *
” Tmp had been pledgg protectn om terrorist attacks weeks after the shootgs at the Pulse Nightclub, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that was the adlit mass shootg U. Republins and other monsense nservativ know Ron Dantis has alienated swg-state and younger voters, ” the group said a tweet, addg that DeSantis’ “extreme rhetoric go has jt ventured to homophobic terrory.
Reprentativ of the DeSantis mpaign did not immediately rpond to requts for ment Christa Phaw, the mpaign’s rapid rponse director, said a tweet Friday night: “Opposg the feral regnn of ‘Pri Month’ isn’t ‘homophobic. “The rabow belongs to God, ” she such rhetoric appeals to the party’s nservative base, risks alienatg the more morate and swg voters who generally ci the out of general vio, origally posted by the pro-DeSantis “@ProudElephantUS” acunt, was shared hours after the Supreme Court’s nservative majory led that a Christian graphic artist who wants to sign weddg webs n refe to work wh same-sex cisn marked a major feat for gay rights, wh one of the urt’s liberal jtic wrg a dissent that the cisn’s effect would be to “mark gays and lbians for send-class stat. It was like a se study for a psychologists nventn wh a bizarre mix of both homophobia and homoeroticism.
But what I fd most tertg is the differg reactns to the overall theme of DeSantis’ gay-obssed mpaign.
Wh ls than two weeks left office, the admistratn of US Print Donald Tmp has falized yet another le rollg back nondiscrimatn protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people seekg the servic of health and welfare programs fund by the US Department of Health and Human Servic. * anti gay trump *
” But he said the csant “gay bashg” which DeSantis engag “is morally tolerable as well as polilly ept. The vio opens wh a clip of then-ndidate Tmp pledgg to "do everythg my power to protect our LGBTQ cizens" a speech at the 2016 Republin Natnal Conventn, jt weeks after a gunman killed 49 people at a gay club Orlando. What crics are sayg The Log Cab Republins, an anizatn that advot for LGBTQ nservativ, said a Twter thread that DeSantis' rhetoric had "ventured to homophobic terrory, " llg "divisive and sperate.
"I mean, the ad smacked of both homophobia and homoeroticism at the same time.
Richard Grenell, Tmp's former actg director of natnal telligence — and the first openly gay Cabet member — lled the vio "unniably homophobic. " Christa Phaw, the rapid rponse director for DeSantis' mpaign, rpond a tweet that opposg the feral regnn of Pri Month is not homophobic. Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg — the first openly gay Cabet member to be approved by the Senate — allud to DeSantis "tryg to prove his manhood, " and asked who he is aimg to help.
Democratic printial ndidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. * anti gay trump *
DeSantis — who said while mpaigng for ernor 2018 that "gettg to bathroom wars, I don't thk that's a good e of our time" — has taken a more hardle stance recent years, signg a slew of bills that roll back protectns for gay and transgenr dividuals. Last March he signed a bill that crics have brand "Don't Say Gay, " which bans public school teachers om holdg classroom stctn about sexual orientatn or genr inty. " (Those remarks were ma soon after the mass shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Florida, where 49 people were killed by a gunman.
"As the world go mad, Florida reprents a refuge of sany and a cal of normalcy, " he said earlier this new DeSantis vio quickly drew bipartisan cricism om the LGBTQ Tmp adviser and ambassador Richard Grenell, who is gay, wrote on Twter that the vio was "unniably homophobic. ""Conservativ unrstand that we need to protect our kids, prerve women's sports, safeguard women's spac and strengthen parental rights, but Ron DeSantis' extreme rhetoric go has jt ventured to homophobic terrory, " the group wrote on Twter. H., June 27, Reynolds/APTransportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a Democrat who is also gay, was asked on CNN to rpond to the vio.
"A spokperson for DeSantis' mpaign, Christa Phaw, rpond to Grennell's cricism on Twter, wrg on Friday: "Opposg the feral regnn of 'Pri Month' isn't 'homophobic.
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Ron DeSantis (R) has doubled down on an ad for his printial mpaign that cricized former Print Donald Tmp’s history of pro-LGBTQ ments, sayg Wednday the ad was “totally fair game” even as garnered wispread cricism om both sis of the aisle as beg homophobic.
The DeSantis mpaign ad garnered wispread cricism om the left, wh Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who is gay, sayg he “do[n’t]. DeSantis has garnered wispread ntroversy as ernor for his history of phg polici that crics cry as beg anti-LGBTQ, cludg rtrictns on drag shows and genr-affirmg re and the state’s Parental Rights Edutn bill, known by crics as “Don’t Say Gay.