Ron Pl And Gay Rights - The Liberty Papers

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WASHINGTON - Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the natn’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) civil rights anizatn, rpond to offensive ments by Sen. Today, at Drake Universy D Mo, Iowa, Pl was asked whether employe should be able to be fired for beg LBGT and rpond that “if you are gay, there are plenty of plac that will hire you” and “the thgs you do your hoe, if you leave them your hoe, they wouldn’t have to be part of the workplace.

Introduced July wh a rerd number of origal sponsors, the Equaly Act would extend existg non-discrimatn protectns to LGBT the Senate, Rand Pl joed Mar Rub, Ted Cz and Ldsey Graham votg agast the Employment Non-Discrimatn Act (ENDA), which would have protected LGBT people om discrimatn the Human Rights Campaign is Ameri’s largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equaly. There’s one area that bothers me, though, and that’s when to his views on the right of homosexuals to live their liv as they choose.

Libertarians do not voke history — pecially the history of relign — as a jtifitn for anti-gay bigotry or unfair and unequal treatment unr law. As more evince surfac that Ron Pl knew about the racist and homophobic msag of the 1980s and 90s newsletters he published, a former senr ai to the ngrsman has e forward wh a lengthy statement attemptg to absolve Pl of racism while tailg shockg cints volvg Pl and gay supporters. Eric Donro wr on Right Wg News that his former boss "is not all bigoted towards homosexuals" and supports their rights to do whatever they want private.

He is, however, "personally unfortable around homosexuals, " as the followg story shows: In 1988, Ron had a hardre Libertarian supporter, Jim Peron, Owner of Laissez Faire Books San Francis. Jim was what you would ll very openly Gay. For 3 days we had a great time trouncg om one mpaign event to another wh Jim's Gay lover.

"Donro go on to relay another display of Pl's "disfort" wh gays, years later at a Surfsi Beach party: "Bobby, " a well-known and rather flamboyant and well-liked gay man Freeport me to the BBQ. The ntroversial newsletters, which are filled wh slurs agast gays and Ain-Amerins, have recently ma their way back to the news cycle to hnt Pl's printial mpaign. A fact is somethg that is empirilly te and n be supported by evince, while an opn is a belief that may or may not be backed up wh some type of evince, ually takg the form of a subjective statement that n be emotnally based or rult om a person's dividual terpretatn of a Ron Pl's printial mpaign issued a flyer that boasted about the ndidate's efforts to troduce legislatn that would remove challeng to the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act om the feral urt Ron Pl's Iowa state director is Mike Heath, a long-term Christian-right activist who formerly served as the board chairman of an SPLC-certified anti-gay hate group known as "Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy.