Rand Pl breaks silence on gay-marriage lg - POLITICO

Contents:

• RAND PL SAID HE DON’T BELIEVE IN THE CONCEPT OF GAY RIGHTS
• RAND PL: THKS PRINT OBAMA COULDN’T “GET ANY GAYER”
• RAND PL ON GAY MARRIAGE: ‘PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE TREATED FAIRLY’
• PL ON GAY MARRIAGE ‘PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE TREATED FAIRLY’
• RAND PL PRINTIAL MPAIGN, 2016/GAY RIGHTS
• RAND PL’S SOLUTN FOR WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN AGAST GAYS? JT STAY THE CLOSET.
• RAND PL AND THE 'MORAL CRISIS' OF GAY MARRIAGE: A TIMELE

RAND PL SAID HE DON’T BELIEVE IN THE CONCEPT OF GAY RIGHTS

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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. Pl is the biggt proponent for protectg the Bill of Rights, which, as you know, protects the rights of all Amerins as stated our Constutn, ” May mpaign did not reply to BuzzFeed News’ qutn seekg clarifitn on gay people’s rights not associated wh their behavr.

RAND PL: THKS PRINT OBAMA COULDN’T “GET ANY GAYER”

Reports have shown gay people are the victims of persistent discrimatn — perhaps most notably, the workplace, as this Williams Instute report found — not bee of any behavr they have engaged , but for beg gay or beg perceived as gay.

8% were agast people for their their sexual orientatn, overwhelmgly public plac cludg streets, siwalks, stor, schools, and public trans where victims are unlikely to be engaged homosexual is not the only time Pl has mented on gay rights — not that he would ll them that. He later suggted that marriage should be left to the stat to ci, so that opponents of marriage equaly uld keep fightg the issue for “s, ” even if that means “New York State may have gay marriage, but Alabama not.

RAND PL ON GAY MARRIAGE: ‘PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE TREATED FAIRLY’

Harmful Rhetoric: Pl joked that Print Obama’s views on marriage uldn’t “get any gayer” and then suggted that marriage equaly would lead to people marryg non-human objects. Rand Pl Joked at Conservative Conference: “I Wasn’t Sure [Print Obama’s] Views On Marriage Could Get Any Gayer.

Rand Pl remarked on Print Obama's cisn to publicly support same-sex marriage by sayg, ‘Call me cynil, but I wasn’t sure his views on marriage uld get any gayer’… ‘It did kd of bother me though that he ed the jtifitn for a biblil reference, ’ he ntued to more lghter.

PL ON GAY MARRIAGE ‘PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE TREATED FAIRLY’

‘He said the biblil goln le ed him to be for gay marriage. Pl Said He Was “Fe wh Allowg the Stat to Determe” the Defn of Marriage, Even If That Meant “New York State May Well Have Gay Marriage and Alabama Not.

RAND PL PRINTIAL MPAIGN, 2016/GAY RIGHTS

If you do that, then New York [S]tate may well have gay marriage and Alabama may not. But when to the right for gays to marry, you said should be left up to the stat.

RAND PL’S SOLUTN FOR WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN AGAST GAYS? JT STAY THE CLOSET.

But orr [for the party to] work—and this is what a lot of people don’t realize this and they say “oh well we want the Republins to be the pro-choice, pro-gay marriage party— may not be that but may be that there are people the Republin party that have those posns and some who don’t, and that we all get along bee we believe limed ernment and we acknowledge that the feral ernment isn’t gog to be volved some of the issu anyways. ‘If you tell people om Alabama, Mississippi or Geia, 'You know what, guys, we've been wrong, and we're gonna be the pro-gay-marriage party, ' they're eher gonna stay home or — I mean, many of the people joed the Republin Party bee of the social issu. Rand Pl (R-KY) on Thursday told a group of pastors and relig lears that the bate over gay marriage was a symptom of a ‘moral crisis’ Ameri and said he hoped for ‘another Great Awakeng.

RAND PL AND THE 'MORAL CRISIS' OF GAY MARRIAGE: A TIMELE

” Acrdg to the Wall Street Journal: “Unr the [ENDA] bill as passed out of mtee, employers generally would be barred om discrimatg hirg and firg cisns bee a worker was gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenred, meang they are livg life as the oppose genr om how they were born. ) may offer an amendment to exempt any for-prof bs that says hirg gay people would ‘burn the employer’s exercise of relign. Jan Brewer weighs whether to sign a bill that would allow bs to ny servic to gay ctomers, top natnal Republins jt want the issue to go away….

I asked if he endorsed a policy iated by the Obama admistratn, unr then-Secretary Clton, to make gay rights a prendn of aid to human rights NGOs. ‘I would thk we’d give to a lot of untri that don’t have good rerds on gay rights, ’ Pl told me. I’d be happy to say, for untri that punish you for homosexualy, too.

Joked Print Obama’s views on marriage uldn’t “get any gayer”. Rand Pl Joked At Conservative Conference: “I Wasn’t Sure [Print Obama’s] Views On Marriage Could Get Any Gayer.