The Mnota Senate recently voted to legalize same-sex marriage as Amerins' views of gay cizens ntue to shift. In light of the events, Jonathan Rch mak the nservative se for gay marriage orr to monstrate that is part and parcel of a re-mment to fay valu, not a flight om them.
Contents:
- WHAT ‘CONSERVATIV FOR GAY MARRIAGE’ FET
- CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
WHAT ‘CONSERVATIV FOR GAY MARRIAGE’ FET
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CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
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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. The real breakthrough, gay Republin operativ say, me wh the nomatn of Donald Tmp.
Though evangelils flocked to his ndidacy, nservative gay rights activists also saw an opportuny.
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.
CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
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 rights activists and Republins acknowledge there is still much work to be done wh the GOP. Gay rights advot the party said Republins missed an opportuny to change the platform’s text 2020.
His admistratn mted to endg the HIV/AIDS epimic wh 10 years and phed to crimalize homosexualy abroad.
“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. “I thk even wh Christians the gay [marriage] issue, that ship has sailed.