Ex-gay and transgenr groups lobby Congrs agast LGBTQ rights bills | The Hill

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• EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS
• GAY LOBBYG ON THE HILL HAS SHORT YET STRONG HISTORY
• UGANDA JT MA HOMOSEXUALY PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. AMERIN EVANGELIL GROUPS PLAYED A ROLEPRINT JOE BIN—AND EVEN TED CZ—HAS NMNED THE UGANDAN LAW. THE LEGISLATN AFTER YEARS OF LOBBYG OM AMERIN CHRISTIAN GROUPS, SOME OF WHICH PREVLY SUPPORTED SUCH HARSH ANTI-LGBTQ MEASUR.BY CALEB ERMAMAY 30, 2023ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAG. SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAFTER MORE THAN A OF ANTI-LGBTQ LOBBYG OM AMERIN EVANGELIL GROUPS, UGANDA HAS FALLY ENACTED WHAT’S AMONG THE HARSHT ANTIGAY LAWS THE WORLD. ON MONDAY, YOWERI MEVENI, THE PRINT OF THE EAST AIN NATN, SIGNED THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT 2023, A BILL THAT MAK HOMOSEXUALY PUNISHABLE BY LIFE IMPRISONMENT AND “AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY”—A VAGUE PHRASE THAT APPLI TO BOTH PREDATORS AND THOSE WHO E “MISREPRENTATN” OR “UNDUE FLUENCE” TO ENGAGE GAY SEX—PUNISHABLE BY ATH. EVEN ATTEMPTG “TO M THE OFFENSE OF HOMOSEXUALY” ULD LEAD TO A SEVEN-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE. MOREOVER, ANYONE FOUND GUILTY OF “PROMOTG” HOMOSEXUALY THE UNTRY ULD FACE UP TO 20 YEARS PRISON, WHILE SO-LLED “SERIAL OFFENRS” AND THOSE WHO TRANSM HIV/AIDS THROUGH GAY SEX ULD BE SUBJECT TO PAL PUNISHMENT.THE LAW HAS FACED WISPREAD NMNATN ABROAD. IN A MONDAY STATEMENT, JOE BIN NMNED AS “A TRAGIC VLATN” OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SAID THE WHE HOE WAS “NSIRG ADDNAL STEPS, CLUDG THE APPLITN OF SANCTNS AND RTRICTN OF ENTRY TO THE UNED STAT AGAST ANYONE VOLVED SER HUMAN RIGHTS AB OR RPTN.” (FOR HIS PART, MEVENI PREVLY PRAISED UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT MEMBERS FOR FYG “IMPERIALIST” PRSURE MPAIGNS AGAST THE LAW, WHICH IS ALSO BEG CHALLENGED URT BY -UNTRY ACTIVISTS.)ANTIGAY SENTIMENT UGANDA HAS CLIMBED RECENT YEARS DUE NO SMALL PART TO AMERIN EVANGELILS, WHO SPENT MORE THAN $20 LN FIGHTG LGBTQ RIGHTS THE UNTRY BETWEEN 2007–2020, ACRDG TO THE WASHGTON POST. STT LIVELY, AN AMERIN PASTOR, SPEARHEAD THIS EFFORT THE EARLY 2000S, PARTICIPATG A SERI OF POPULAR ANTIGAY LECTUR UGANDA AND SCRIBG HOMOSEXUALY AS A “DISEASE” PROPAGATED BY THE WT. SEVERAL YEARS LATER, UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT PROPOSED IAL LEGISLATN, KNOWN AS THE “KILL THE GAYS” BILL, THAT WAS SUPPORTED BY A NUMBER OF AMERIN CHRISTIAN GROUPS AND EVENTUALLY SIGNED TO LAW. WHILE THAT MEASURE ULTIMATELY BUCKLED UNR URT SCTY, S DRANIAN VISN HAS NOW BEEN REVIVED AND ETCHED TO LAW BY MEVENI’S PEN.IN A STRANGE TWIST, ONE OF THE LEADG EVANGELIL POLICIANS THE US HAS JOED THE WHE HOE, THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE, AND A RPORATE ALN NMNG THE LAW. “THIS UGANDA LAW IS HORRIFIC & WRONG,” TWEETED SENATOR TED CZ, A TEXAS REPUBLIN. “ANY LAW CRIMALIZG HOMOSEXUALY OR IMPOSG THE ATH PENALTY FOR ‘AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY’ IS GROTQUE & AN ABOMATN. ALL CIVILIZED NATNS SHOULD JO TOGETHER NMNG THIS HUMAN RIGHTS ABE. #LGBTQ.” IN HIS OWN UNTRY, CZ HAS NSISTENTLY ADVOTED AGAST THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF GAY AMERINS. AS RECENTLY AS LAST YEAR, HE LLED OBERGEFELL V. HODG, THE SUPREME COURT LG THAT LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NATNWI, “CLEARLY WRONG” AND AN ACT OF JUDICIAL OVERREACH. (THOSE REMARKS WERE D PARED TO HIS IAL REACTN TO THE 2015 CISN, WHICH HE SCRIBED AT THE TIME AS “THE VERY FN OF TYRANNY” AND “AMONG THE DARKT HOURS OF OUR NATN.”)ANA AMONG, UGANDA’S PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER, RPOND TO CRICISMS OF THE LAW BY STATG THAT MEVENI HAD “ANSWERED THE CRI OF OUR PEOPLE.” IN A SEPARATE STATEMENT, AMONG URGED THE “DUTY BEARERS UNR THE LAW TO EXECUTE THE MANDATE BTOWED UPON THEM THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHCALEB ERMA
• EX-GAY AND TRANSGENR GROUPS LOBBY CONGRS AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS BILLS
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• PCHG G.O.P. ON GAY MARRIAGE BILL, TAMMY BALDW LEAV NOTHG TO CHANCE
• ROW LOOMS OVER TORY NFERENCE VATN TO GAY LOBBYG GROUP ACCED OF TRANSPHOBIA
• GAY LOBBY’S NEXT TARGET: BENEFS ALL 50 STAT
• DEMOCRAT LEGISLATOR WANTS TO CRIMALIZE GAY SEX BETWEEN YOUNG ADULTS AND MORS SOME S
• THE HOBBY LOBBY RULG IS SURPRISGLY GOOD FOR GAYS

EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS

A group of people om across the untry who formerly intified as gay and transgenr have scend upon Washgton this week to share their stori and lobby agast two proposed LGBTQ-rights group is ma up of 15 members of Church Uned and Changed, two California-based anizatns that seek to provi muny for, and protect the rights of, “formers” — dividuals who formerly intified as lbian, gay, bisexual or bills the group is lobbyg agast are H. This, he said, is evinced by the fact that gays have achieved clout and succs as scientists, thors and Thoron, an LGBTQ rearcher at Human Rights Watch, lled the assertn of the “formers” unfound and said the bills they’re lobbyg agast are “long overdue. Gay Lobbyg On The Hill Has Short Yet Strong History One argument ed by nservativ the Supreme Court s is that gay Amerins have bee so polilly powerful that they don't need special attentn om the urts.

Whether or not that's te, 's clear that advocy groups for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny have built a strong work of lobbyists and polil activists Washgton. One argument ed by nservativ the Supreme Court s is that gay Amerins have bee so polilly powerful that they don't need special attentn om the urts.

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: One argument ed by some nservativ the Supreme Court s is that gay Amerins have bee so polilly powerful and proment they don't need special nsiratn om the urts.

GAY LOBBYG ON THE HILL HAS SHORT YET STRONG HISTORY

Whether or not that's te, is clear that lbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgenred advocy groups have built a strong work of lobbyists and polil activists Washgton, D. Gay activists lnched the HRC 1980, as they learned how Washgton Stachelberg is a former HRC polil director.

UGANDA JT MA HOMOSEXUALY PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. AMERIN EVANGELIL GROUPS PLAYED A ROLEPRINT JOE BIN—AND EVEN TED CZ—HAS NMNED THE UGANDAN LAW. THE LEGISLATN AFTER YEARS OF LOBBYG OM AMERIN CHRISTIAN GROUPS, SOME OF WHICH PREVLY SUPPORTED SUCH HARSH ANTI-LGBTQ MEASUR.BY CALEB ERMAMAY 30, 2023ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAG. SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAFTER MORE THAN A OF ANTI-LGBTQ LOBBYG OM AMERIN EVANGELIL GROUPS, UGANDA HAS FALLY ENACTED WHAT’S AMONG THE HARSHT ANTIGAY LAWS THE WORLD. ON MONDAY, YOWERI MEVENI, THE PRINT OF THE EAST AIN NATN, SIGNED THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT 2023, A BILL THAT MAK HOMOSEXUALY PUNISHABLE BY LIFE IMPRISONMENT AND “AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY”—A VAGUE PHRASE THAT APPLI TO BOTH PREDATORS AND THOSE WHO E “MISREPRENTATN” OR “UNDUE FLUENCE” TO ENGAGE GAY SEX—PUNISHABLE BY ATH. EVEN ATTEMPTG “TO M THE OFFENSE OF HOMOSEXUALY” ULD LEAD TO A SEVEN-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE. MOREOVER, ANYONE FOUND GUILTY OF “PROMOTG” HOMOSEXUALY THE UNTRY ULD FACE UP TO 20 YEARS PRISON, WHILE SO-LLED “SERIAL OFFENRS” AND THOSE WHO TRANSM HIV/AIDS THROUGH GAY SEX ULD BE SUBJECT TO PAL PUNISHMENT.THE LAW HAS FACED WISPREAD NMNATN ABROAD. IN A MONDAY STATEMENT, JOE BIN NMNED AS “A TRAGIC VLATN” OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SAID THE WHE HOE WAS “NSIRG ADDNAL STEPS, CLUDG THE APPLITN OF SANCTNS AND RTRICTN OF ENTRY TO THE UNED STAT AGAST ANYONE VOLVED SER HUMAN RIGHTS AB OR RPTN.” (FOR HIS PART, MEVENI PREVLY PRAISED UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT MEMBERS FOR FYG “IMPERIALIST” PRSURE MPAIGNS AGAST THE LAW, WHICH IS ALSO BEG CHALLENGED URT BY -UNTRY ACTIVISTS.)ANTIGAY SENTIMENT UGANDA HAS CLIMBED RECENT YEARS DUE NO SMALL PART TO AMERIN EVANGELILS, WHO SPENT MORE THAN $20 LN FIGHTG LGBTQ RIGHTS THE UNTRY BETWEEN 2007–2020, ACRDG TO THE WASHGTON POST. STT LIVELY, AN AMERIN PASTOR, SPEARHEAD THIS EFFORT THE EARLY 2000S, PARTICIPATG A SERI OF POPULAR ANTIGAY LECTUR UGANDA AND SCRIBG HOMOSEXUALY AS A “DISEASE” PROPAGATED BY THE WT. SEVERAL YEARS LATER, UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT PROPOSED IAL LEGISLATN, KNOWN AS THE “KILL THE GAYS” BILL, THAT WAS SUPPORTED BY A NUMBER OF AMERIN CHRISTIAN GROUPS AND EVENTUALLY SIGNED TO LAW. WHILE THAT MEASURE ULTIMATELY BUCKLED UNR URT SCTY, S DRANIAN VISN HAS NOW BEEN REVIVED AND ETCHED TO LAW BY MEVENI’S PEN.IN A STRANGE TWIST, ONE OF THE LEADG EVANGELIL POLICIANS THE US HAS JOED THE WHE HOE, THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE, AND A RPORATE ALN NMNG THE LAW. “THIS UGANDA LAW IS HORRIFIC & WRONG,” TWEETED SENATOR TED CZ, A TEXAS REPUBLIN. “ANY LAW CRIMALIZG HOMOSEXUALY OR IMPOSG THE ATH PENALTY FOR ‘AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY’ IS GROTQUE & AN ABOMATN. ALL CIVILIZED NATNS SHOULD JO TOGETHER NMNG THIS HUMAN RIGHTS ABE. #LGBTQ.” IN HIS OWN UNTRY, CZ HAS NSISTENTLY ADVOTED AGAST THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF GAY AMERINS. AS RECENTLY AS LAST YEAR, HE LLED OBERGEFELL V. HODG, THE SUPREME COURT LG THAT LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NATNWI, “CLEARLY WRONG” AND AN ACT OF JUDICIAL OVERREACH. (THOSE REMARKS WERE D PARED TO HIS IAL REACTN TO THE 2015 CISN, WHICH HE SCRIBED AT THE TIME AS “THE VERY FN OF TYRANNY” AND “AMONG THE DARKT HOURS OF OUR NATN.”)ANA AMONG, UGANDA’S PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER, RPOND TO CRICISMS OF THE LAW BY STATG THAT MEVENI HAD “ANSWERED THE CRI OF OUR PEOPLE.” IN A SEPARATE STATEMENT, AMONG URGED THE “DUTY BEARERS UNR THE LAW TO EXECUTE THE MANDATE BTOWED UPON THEM THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHCALEB ERMA

Now she's wh the liberal Center For Amerin STACHELBERG: You need to have both an effective lobby to ph members of Congrs to support the gay and lbian muny on the one hand, terms of advocy and tellg stori. Print Bill Clton's 1992 mpaign had an openly gay fundraiser, David Mixner, bundlg ntributns om gay donors.

But '93, Clton signed the "don't ask, don't tell" law, effectively keepg many gays out of the the lobbyg effort gaed strength as more gays me out, and more voters and policians disvered they had gay fay members and iends. He's head lobbyist for the social nservative group Fay Rearch MCCLUSKY: I mean this is polics, and money has an credible fluence on polics, be good or McClky says tablishment Republins are unr the sway of nsultants like Karl Rove; big outsi spenrs like hedge fund billnaire Pl Sger, who has a gay son; and fundraisers like former Republin Party Chairman Ken Mehlman, who's openly for the Democrats, McClky predicts they'll never aga nomate a printial ndidate who don't support same-sex marriage. That one party is now bought and paid for by a lot of the homosexual It hardly looks that way to Fred Saz at the Human Rights Campaign.

After more than a of anti-LGBTQ lobbyg om Amerin evangelil groups, Uganda has fally enacted what’s among the harsht antigay laws the world. On Monday, Yoweri Meveni, the print of the East Ain natn, signed the Anti-Homosexualy Act 2023, a bill that mak homosexualy punishable by life imprisonment and “aggravated homosexualy”—a vague phrase that appli to both predators and those who e “misreprentatn” or “undue fluence” to engage gay sex—punishable by ath.

EX-GAY AND TRANSGENR GROUPS LOBBY CONGRS AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS BILLS

Moreover, anyone found guilty of “promotg” homosexualy the untry uld face up to 20 years prison, while so-lled “serial offenrs” and those who transm HIV/AIDS through gay sex uld be subject to pal law has faced wispread nmnatn abroad. )Antigay sentiment Uganda has climbed recent years due no small part to Amerin evangelils, who spent more than $20 ln fightg LGBTQ rights the untry between 2007–2020, acrdg to The Washgton Post.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

Stt Lively, an Amerin pastor, spearhead this effort the early 2000s, participatg a seri of popular antigay lectur Uganda and scribg homosexualy as a “disease” propagated by the Wt. Several years later, Uganda’s parliament proposed ial legislatn, known as the “Kill the Gays” bill, that was supported by a number of Amerin Christian groups and eventually signed to law. “Any law crimalizg homosexualy or imposg the ath penalty for ‘aggravated homosexualy’ is grotque & an abomatn.

” In a separate statement, Among urged the “duty bearers unr the law to execute the mandate btowed upon them the Anti-Homosexualy Act.

PCHG G.O.P. ON GAY MARRIAGE BILL, TAMMY BALDW LEAV NOTHG TO CHANCE

The pany, whose CEO, Tim Cook, is the natn’s most visible gay executive, has ployed s lobbyists to oppose legislatn that lims protectns for trans and gay people or their fai Iowa, Florida, Texas and at least six other stat. The pro-LGBTQ group Equaly Florida said an email that s staff hadn’t noticed any of Apple’s lobbyg agast the new state law that rtricts teachers om talkg about genr and sexualy the classroom, which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law. Supporters of the new law say would ensure that the state’s youngt stunts learn about sexual orientatn and genr inty om their parents and not at school, but opponents say will create a hostile environment for gay and transgenr children or children om LGBTQ fai.

ROW LOOMS OVER TORY NFERENCE VATN TO GAY LOBBYG GROUP ACCED OF TRANSPHOBIA

“The efficy of makg big public statements is lower than ed to be, ” said Jsi Shortall, managg director of the gay rights bs group Texas Compet. Two anizatns claimg to be ma up of people who formerly intified as gay and transgenr are lobbyg agast proposed LGBTQ rights bills Washgton this week, claimg, spe existg amic rearch and feral hate crim data, that anti-LGBTQ discrimatn do not exist, acrdg to NBC News.

Fifteen members of Church Uned and Changed, two California-based anizatns reprentg people who no longer intify as gay or transgenr, lobbied agast the Equaly Act and the Theraptic Frd Preventn Act.

“Changg the Civil Rights Act would create a super class for anyone intifyg as LGBTQ at the expense of people who are not, ” said Jim Domen, founr of Church Uned, who intifi as formerly gay, told the work. Rearch by the Williams Instute at UCLA dit gay, lbian and bisexual people who are cisgenr — the term for people whose genr inty match their assigned sex at birth — are far more likely to report experienc of work and hog discrimatn than heterosexuals. Numero people formerly volved wh the “ex-gay” movement have nounced the movement as effective, and 2007 several former lears of ex-gay mistri published an apology for their work wh the movement.

GAY LOBBY’S NEXT TARGET: BENEFS ALL 50 STAT

Gilson om Germany pos wh an Amerin flag as he participat the Gay Pri para along Plista Avenue Sao Plo, Brazil. As the LGBTQ agenda has been ont and center durg Pri Month June, the Amerin Fay Associatn (AFA, ) is alertg parents about the ncerted effort to normalize homosexualy, same-sex marriage and the transgenr liftyle to the untry's youngt cizens.

DEMOCRAT LEGISLATOR WANTS TO CRIMALIZE GAY SEX BETWEEN YOUNG ADULTS AND MORS SOME S

"AFA is potg to several exampl of an agenda-driven asslt on young Amerins:This sprg, the tax-fund PBS Kids aired a gay marriage on the Arthur rtoon. Ratburn, was gay and gettg partment stor are not only offerg clothg and accsori for both adults and children to celebrate the gay liftyle, but the pany has also pledged to donate $100, 000 to the Gay, Lbian Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), an anizatn whose primary foc is stctg school-aged stunts about how to create "gay" clubs public schools across the natn.

THE HOBBY LOBBY RULG IS SURPRISGLY GOOD FOR GAYS

" Child Protective Servic vtigated the boy's fay after a vio of him performg drag at a gay club Brooklyn surfaced. A gay character was seemgly shoe-horned to a scene the blockbter Marvel film Avengers: Endgame to satisfy the LGBT agenda and reach a younger Queen Story Hours have been planned at lol public and school librari natnwi over the past year. LGBTQ Lobbyg the Uned Stat argu that the issu and tactics prrized by the mastream gay lobbyg muny fail to serve LGBTQ terts and are plic perpetuatg heteronormative power dynamics and stutns that renr queer and trans people vulnerable to stctural opprsn.

The book poss that there are different LGBTQ lobbyg muni—a domant gay mastream lobbyg tegory, whose work advanc heteronormative ials, and a send tegory of LGBTQ lobbyg that is tersectnal and challeng hegemonic heterosexual stutns. Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny. Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab".

"We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May.