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THE CAUTIOUS CLOSET OF THE GAY CONSERVATIVE
”Lbian, gay and bisexual stunts are four tim more likely to attempt suici than their heterosexual peers, acrdg to a new report om the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn. Historilly, Hatch has been a vol opponent of LGBTQ rights, but recent years his opposn has 1977, his first year the Senate, Hatch said, “I wouldn't want to see homosexuals teachg school anymore than I'd want to see members of the Amerin Nazi Party teachg school, ” acrdg to the Salt Lake, who is Mormon, has also opposed same-sex marriage on several ocsns durg his s office. Orr Hatch has fely evolved on the issue of LGBTQ nservative Republin Mormon om Utah, who once said lettg gay people teach children would be like lettg Nazis do so, lled for protectn of LGBTQ Amerins om "vid discrimatn" his farewell speech to the U.
"Hatch said there is a lson to be learned om his home state, which 2015 enacted an LGBTQ-clive antidiscrimatn law wh a broad exemptn for relig anizatns and their affiliat, cludg lleg and rights activists, however, are often skeptil of such exemptns, as they uld allow discrimatn areas that have ltle or nothg to do wh a relig missn -- say, a church-affiliated school refg to hire gay food service employe. Back the 1970s, he said gay people shouldn't be allowed to be teachers, as they have a "psychologil ficiency. " He told a group of Universy of Utah stunts, "I wouldn't want to see homosexuals teachg school any more than I'd want to see members of the Amerin Nazi Party teachg school.