WASHINGTON -- Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the natn’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights anizatn released our 2020 Printial Qutnnaire and rpons om the…
Contents:
- IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
- ROMNEY'S VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE: ALSO EVOLVG?
- FACTBOX: PRINTIAL NDIDAT' VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE
IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
* presidential candidates views on gay rights *
WHAT IS THE LEGACY OF PETE BUTTIGIEG’S HISTORIC RUN AS AMERICA’S FIRST GAY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE? He's challenged Vice Print Mike Pence's anti-LGBTQ posns and, if elected, he would be the natn's first openly gay his mpaign, Buttigieg has vowed to pass the Equaly Act, reverse the Tmp admistratn's ban on transgenr people servg the ary, and enforce the Affordable Care Act's non-discrimatn provisns to protect LGBTQ patients.
" When Buttigieg was heckled by anti-gay protters earlier this year, the former Maryland ngrsman spoke out about the cint, urgg people to "stand together" and "nmn disgtg attacks on our iends the LGBTQ muny" a statement on part of his 2020 mpaign, Delaney has vowed to support the Equaly Act, the Stunt Non-Discrimatn Act, and the Votg Rights Advancement Act. As a state reprentative Hawaii, Gabbard once ttified agast a marriage equaly bill and referred to gay people as "homosexual extremists, " acrdg to HuffPost.
ROMNEY'S VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE: ALSO EVOLVG?
Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay Democratic ndidate for print of the Uned Stat to mount a major mpaign, emerged as one of the lears the Democratic Party’s early nomatn ntts * presidential candidates views on gay rights *
"In a statement released May, Gravel also claimed he was "the first major Democrat to endorse gay marriage as a civil right. Acrdg to GLAAD, Inslee also publicly nmned the Boy Suts of Ameri 2014 for revokg an openly gay sutmaster's tle and troop charter.
Bernie Sanrs has a lengthy rerd of LGBTQ advocy, havg advoted for the abolishment of anti-gay laws sce the 1970s. In his reer as a lawmaker, he's signed a Gay Pri Day proclamatn, opposed "don't ask, don't tell, " supported legislative efforts to legalize same-sex marriage Vermont, and passed an anti-discrimatn hog ordance, acrdg to Splter News. "I was way out there by myself on gay and lbian rights, startg my first month office, January 1991.
FACTBOX: PRINTIAL NDIDAT' VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE
Print Obama said his posn on gay marriage "evolved" over time, and a se n be ma that GOP printial ndidate Mt Romney's views on gay rights have changed as well. Though Romney says his posn has been nsistent; activists don't see that way. * presidential candidates views on gay rights *
While servg as the ernor of Massachetts, Weld tablished the Governor's Commissn on Gay and Lbian Youth and appoted Margaret H.
Marianne WilliamsonAraya Diaz/Getty Imag Entertament/Getty ImagWhile spirual thor and speaker Marianne Williamson has no votg rerd to reflect upon, LGBTQ Natn has scribed her as havg "-pth ti to the gay muny" due to the lectur she's given on the ia of love whout nmnatn. He even boytted Chic-Fil-A bee of the pany's homophobic Blas said he will ntue his support of the muny if he is elected to the Oval Office.
"In this state, wh 30, 000 kids the foster re system — a foster re system so unr-rourced that recently kids were sleepg on top of or unrneath the sks CPS [Child Protective Servic] offic — this state, they say that unr the guise of relig liberty that you n be too gay to adopt one of those children who needs a lovg home. "(Polifact has sce lved more -pth to O'Rourke's statement that one n be "too gay to adopt" Texas, illtratg the nuance behd the law.
The first openly gay printial ndidate to mount a major mpaign has attracted an equally pneerg prs rps. * presidential candidates views on gay rights *
HRC's unprecented grassroots mobilizatn reprented an vtment of approximately $26 ln to rec volunteers, mobilize nstuents, register voters and grow the anizatn's grassroots army an all-out effort to pull the emergency brake on the hateful anti-LGBTQ agenda of the Tmp-Pence admistratn and elect a Congrs that would hold them Human Rights Campaign is Ameri’s largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. Asked if he meant to nvey support for same-sex marriage, he replied: “No, ’ before sayg that gay marriage is ‘legally acceptable’ Virgia and that “I, as ernor, will support that. History, Ron DeSantis has ma the missn of his ernorship to attack queer and trans people, whether ’s children or fai, or addn to his dranian “don’t say gay” law that forbids the discsn of the existence of LGBTQ+ people or their experienc the world schools through high school graduatn, he has stripped parents of the right to accs life-savg, medilly proven, and endorsed re for their children.
A noted homophobe, former vice print Mike Pence is known for his anti-LGBTQ+ remarks and actns. Clayton County se, his admistratn argued that gay and trans workers were not protected by feral civil rights law.