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
- OPN A QUTN TO NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS ON GAY MARRIAGE: WHY DRAW THE LE HERE?
- HOW SAFE IS GAY MARRIAGE? ADVOT FEAR CREASGLY NSERVATIVE URT
- CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- ONCE HYSTERIL ON GAY MARRIAGE, CONSERVATIV ARE NOW INHERENT
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- HERE ARE 5 GAY REPUBLINS AND THEIR OFTEN NTROVERSIAL POLIL BELIEFS
WHAT ‘CONSERVATIV FOR GAY MARRIAGE’ FET
The nomatn of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court and h cricism of the 2015 gay marriage lg by two jtic has renewed advot’ ncerns. * conservatives gay marriage *
There were openly gay officials workg at the hight levels of the Tmp admistratn.
And Congrs, the gay rights movement has found alli up and g Republin stars like Rep. There is more energy the GOP for help for gay and transgenr issu than a lot of issu Bin r about, ” said Tyler Deaton, a Republin nsultant and senr adviser to the Amerin Uny Fund, which works to advance LGBTQ rights. Bh’s 2004 printial n, apologized for the anti-same-sex marriage rhetoric of that mpaign and for his role fightg marriage equaly, while announcg that he was gay.
OPN A QUTN TO NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS ON GAY MARRIAGE: WHY DRAW THE LE HERE?
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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.
HOW SAFE IS GAY MARRIAGE? ADVOT FEAR CREASGLY NSERVATIVE URT
Behd the succs of the Rpect for Marriage Act was a group of proment Republins, some of them gay, who worked to persua G.O.P. senators that embracg was a polil wner. * conservatives gay marriage *
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. 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.
CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
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. 5, 2022Follow our live verage of the Supreme Court heargs that ps ee speech agast gay rights. Nightclub his state, which five people were killed, unrsred the importance of fendg the rights of gay Amerins.
ONCE HYSTERIL ON GAY MARRIAGE, CONSERVATIV ARE NOW INHERENT
Lee tried and failed to attach chang to the bill that he said would more strongly protect relig Colls phed back, notg that the bill had received strong backg om fah-based groups, cludg the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, which historilly has aggrsively opposed gay rights.
More pennts who lean toward the Democratic Party (81%) favor gay marriage than Democrats (71%).
Many tradnalist Christians view homosexual relatnships as sful.
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
Amerin attus toward homosexualy have certaly changed radilly but so have our attus toward racial and genr equaly.
HERE ARE 5 GAY REPUBLINS AND THEIR OFTEN NTROVERSIAL POLIL BELIEFS
”John Arthur, an ALS patient, and Jim Obergefell, partners for more than 20 years, are married on a medil plane Maryland Hartong / Ccnati Enquirer via AP fileAdvocy groups were quick to h back at the two nservative jtic, wh the Human Rights Campaign, the untry’s largt gay rights group, sayg a statement that Thomas and Alo had “renewed their war on LGBTQ rights and marriage equaly, as the urt hangs the balance. Brad Polumbo, a journalist who is gay, recently wrote an article for The Washgton Examer which he argued that ncerns regardg Barrett are overblown. He relled the upset wh the LGBTQ muny over Jtice Neil Gorsuch’s nomatn, and — potg to Gorsuch’s vote favor of gay and transgenr rights June Bostock v.