Gay lawmaker sums up what everyone is thkg about Tulsi Gabbard jt 6 words - LGBTQ Natn

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• GAY LAWMAKER SUMS UP WHAT EVERYONE IS THKG ABOUT TULSI GABBARD JT 6 WORDS
• TULSI GABBARD ONCE TOUTED WORKG FOR ANTI-GAY GROUP THAT BACKED NVERSN THERAPY

GAY LAWMAKER SUMS UP WHAT EVERYONE IS THKG ABOUT TULSI GABBARD JT 6 WORDS

Article ntu below advertisementIn 2022, Gabbard was a featured speaker at the Conservative Polil Actn Conference, and she also has e out favor of Florida's Parental Rights Edutn Act, which is known by s cric as the "Don't Say Gay Law. " The issu are obvly eply divisive, but Gabbard's posn on gay marriage has been fairly longstandg. A big part of her early strategy: Walkg back earlier opposn to gay nng for the state legislature 2002, Gabbard, then 21, bragged to the Honolulu Star-Bullet about her work to oppose gay marriage.

”Mike Gabbard, a Hawaii state senator, has been a longtime opponent of gay rights. He led the Alliance for Tradnal Marriage, a polil actn mtee that opposed same-sex marriage, and has lled homosexualy “unhealthy, abnormal behavr that should not be promoted or accepted society.

More recently, she backed multiple piec of legislatn to make discrimatg agast gay rights illegal. He was an activist who was fightg agast gay rights and marriage equaly Hawaii — and at that time, I forcefully fend him, ” Gabbard explaed a tweet.

TULSI GABBARD ONCE TOUTED WORKG FOR ANTI-GAY GROUP THAT BACKED NVERSN THERAPY

”Not so long ago, Gabbard’s opposn to gay marriage would not have been so unual om a Democratic printial was Bill Clton, after all, who enacted “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Print Barack Obama exprsed his support for gay marriage 2012, cg his fah as part of the reason for the swch. Several red state Democrats who opposed gay marriage 2012 me out favor durg the 2018 midterms.

And every Democrat currently nng the printial primary has affirmed that they would appot liberal judg and ph anti-gay discrimatn legislatn if elected. “This will be a robt primary wh many champns of equaly the race, " JoDee Wterhof, senr vice print for policy and polil affairs for the Human Rights Campaign, one of the largt gay rights anizatns the untry, told the Fix.

When nservative ngrswoman om Hawaii and 2020 printial ndidate Tulsi Gabbard announced on Tuday that she’s leavg the Democratic Party, gay Pennsylvania state Rep. As a young polician, she railed agast pro-marriage advot as “homosexual extremists” and once worked for a relig-right hate group that promoted nversn therapy.

In the 2020 electn, every ndidate’s rerd on LGBTQ rights will be cril — and that clus both statements their past and how they’re prentg themselv the media right two years, we’ve lived unr a print who has btally asslted LGBTQ rights at every opportuny, after havg sced a placent media to thkg that he’d evolved too and that he was actually “more acceptg on gay issu, ” as The New York Tim famoly put . Mike Gabbard, a Hawaii legislator who helped drive the fight agast marriage equaly the state, head up the Alliance for Tradnal Marriage and Stop Promotg Homosexualy, which promoted harmful nversn younger Gabbard, elected to the Hawaii legislature herself 2002 at the age of 21, railed agast “homosexual extremists” 2004, g out agast same-sex civil unns her state. That same year she opposed anti-bullyg legislatn meant to protect gay stunts, argug that would teach young people that homosexualy is “normal and natural.

Tulsi Gabbard has recently signaled that her transformatn on LGBTQ rights don't go very Segar / RtersHowever, a 2016 terview wh the publitn Ozy, Gabbard suggted that her personal beliefs on homosexualy actually haven’t changed:It was, she says, the days the Middle East that tght her the dangers of a theocratic ernment “imposg s will” on the people.