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Contents:
- AS RICHARD GRENELL ADDRS RNC, GOP PLATFORM STILL OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
- RNC DOUBL DOWN ON GAY MARRIAGE STANCE AMID CONSERVATIVE PRSURE
- DANA LOCH AND GOPROUD CHAIRMAN RPOND TO MEDIAE’S RNC DEBATE ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE STORY
- RNC PASS UNANIMO ROLUTN AFFIRMG GOP IS STILL AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
AS RICHARD GRENELL ADDRS RNC, GOP PLATFORM STILL OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
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There were openly gay officials workg at the hight levels of the Tmp admistratn.
RNC DOUBL DOWN ON GAY MARRIAGE STANCE AMID CONSERVATIVE PRSURE
Social nservative groups air grievanc to Rece Prieb and RNC on hot button social issu, cludg gay marriage. * rnc gay marriage *
And Congrs, the gay rights movement has found alli up and g Republin stars like Rep. 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.
DANA LOCH AND GOPROUD CHAIRMAN RPOND TO MEDIAE’S RNC DEBATE ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE STORY
Monday, the 5 ndidat for RNC Chair supported NOM's posn on gay marriage. Story drew rpons om GOProud's Chris Barron, and Dana Loch. * rnc gay marriage *
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.
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.
RNC PASS UNANIMO ROLUTN AFFIRMG GOP IS STILL AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
GOP Reaffirms: We Still Thk Gay Marriage Is Wrong * rnc 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.
“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.