Robert Siegel talks wh Washgton Post polil rrponnt, Karen Tumulty, about the role gay marriage is playg as an issue the 2014 electns — pecially for Republins.
Contents:
- THE MOST ANTI-GAY US POLICIANS
- OPN GOP NDIDAT SWIM AGAST THE TI ON GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE AND THE GOVERNOR'S RACE
- MANY GOP CANDIDAT NOT COMMENTG ON GAY MARRIAGE WAVE
- HERE'S WHERE 16 POTENTIAL PRINTIAL CANDIDAT STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
- VAST MAJORY OF RSIANS OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE AND GAY PRI EVENTS – POLL
- ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
THE MOST ANTI-GAY US POLICIANS
Who are the most anti-gay US policians? The list is a long one, cludg policians om both parti (though a majory are Republin). The ... * candidates against gay marriage *
You might also be terted the lists of Republin and Democratic sex sndals over the Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY "Congrs should oppose any effort to regnize homosexuals as a 'discrete and sular mory' entled to the protectn of anti-discrimatn laws siar to those extend to women and ethnic mori. I may have the geic dg that I'm cled to be an alholic, but I have the sire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way. Birthplace: Wchter, Virgia, USANatnaly: Uned Stat of AmeriParty (if partisan): Republin PartyAcrdg to a Spartanburg Herald-Journal report on a Jim DeMt church rally 2010: "DeMt said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn’t be teachg the classroom and he holds the same posn on an unmarried woman who’s sleepg wh her boyiend - she shouldn’t be the classroom.
OPN GOP NDIDAT SWIM AGAST THE TI ON GAY MARRIAGE
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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.
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. 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 MARRIAGE AND THE GOVERNOR'S RACE
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“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. 3, The Philalphia Gay News reached out to all four ndidat for Senate and Governor: Fetterman, Oz, Mastriano, and Shapiro, to ask their stanc on marriage equaly and LGBTQ rights issu.
The Philalphia Gay News submted seven requts to Oz’s team, as well as a half-dozen requts via Twter which we ced Fetterman’s swift reply, but received no rponse. Fetterman’s mpaign told the Philalphia Gay News that the Democratic pol recently had celebrated the 9-year anniversary sce he officiated the first same-sex marriage Allegheny County fiance of Pennsylvania’s then-ban on same-sex marriage. “[On Augt 5, 2013], I beme the first and ONLY elected official wtern PA willg to officiate a gay marriage when was illegal, ” Fetterman said a statement.
MANY GOP CANDIDAT NOT COMMENTG ON GAY MARRIAGE WAVE
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Oz gave advot of so-lled ‘nversn therapy’ a natnal platform on his televisn show, praised ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills, and nied of suici risk to trans youth. Shapiro told the Philalphia Gay News that “if your child is LGBTQ+, Doug Mastriano supports sendg them to nversn therapy bee he believ they’re ‘nfed. Shapiro’s mpaign told the Philalphia Gay News that the Democratic gubernatorial nomee “has been a strong supporter of LGBT Civil Rights and Civil Liberti, unlike his opponent, who is adamantly opposed to same-sex marriage and any legal support for LGBTQ people.
“I have suggted to others that not only would I like to see Roe, Casey, and Griswold on ntraceptn dified but I’ve also ma clear my support for, for gay marriage years ago, ” she said. Pence was cril of the Obama admistratn's directive on transgenr bathroom accs and supported Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the policy that prohibed soldiers om openly intifyg as gay until was end 2011.
HERE'S WHERE 16 POTENTIAL PRINTIAL CANDIDAT STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
Brady, no stranger to the semantics of Sprgfield, obvly ey an amendment banng gay marriage as a means of galvanizg nservative support for his ndidacy. * candidates against gay marriage *
Gary Johnson supported legalizg same-sex marriage and advoted for endg the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy which prohibed openly gay service members om servg the ary. The vio clud scen om a 2011 speech where she said “gay rights and human one and the same” played over clips of same-sex upl. Clton said, "This morng, they all cried the Supreme Court's lg upholdg marriage equaly—we even heard them ll for a nstutnal amendment to strip away the right to equaly om our gay brothers and sisters.
On the issue of gay marriage, Donald Tmp said durg a November 2013 terview on MSNBC, "I thk I’m evolvg, and I thk I’m a very fair person, but I have been for tradnal marriage.
VAST MAJORY OF RSIANS OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE AND GAY PRI EVENTS – POLL
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In a March 2011 terview wh The D Mo Register, Tmp said gay upl should not be allowed to marry or receive the same benefs as married heterosexual upl. Tapper said he wasn't askg for an explanatn for Tmp's divorc, but rather what he would say to a gay person on this qutn. ” Pence also said that beg gay is a choice and that preventg gay upl om marryg was not discrimatn, but a means of enforcg "God's ia.
The Green Party regniz the equal rights of persons who intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, tersex, trans-sexual, queer, or transgenr to hog, jobs, civil marriage, medil benefs, child ctody, and all areas of life cludg equal tax treatment. We will pursue legislatn agast all forms of hate crim, cludg those directed agast people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgenr, and ter-sex. Johnson released a statement on December 1, 2011, to announce that he supported gay marriage after "a great al of liberatn, discsn wh the gay muny, and a ncln that ernment has no bs choosg who should be allowed the benefs of marriage and who should not.
ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
Wh the number of stat where gay marriage is legal now up to 36, where do the 2016 printial hopefuls stand on the issue? * candidates against gay marriage *
However, when to the rights of dividuals and upl unr the law, ernment’s promise should be to sure equal accs to those rights to all Amerins, gay or straight. Johnson wrote an op-ed The Huffgton Post December 2010 to advote for the end of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ary policy which prohibed openly gay servicemembers om servg.
"While virtually all other signifint ary powers the world have long ago lifted their bans on gays servg openly the ary -- wh no adverse effects -- the U.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
As the Rsian parliament prepar for s send readg of a natnwi ban on ‘gay propaganda’ to mors, polls show that an overwhelmg majory of Rsians oppose both same-sex marriage and gay pri events. * candidates against gay marriage *
" Weld replied, "In office, my se, even though I was then a Republin and not a Libertarian, I was way out there by myself on gay and lbian rights, startg my first month office, January 1991. “She wound up wrg the opn holdg that the equaly of marriage rights for gays and lbians is nstutnally pelled unr both the equal protectn clse and the due procs clse, ” Weld said.