If you're gay, get ready, the GOP and Trump's cabinet are coming after you. Believe it!

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Trump Appoints Lawyer Who Defended HB2 to Civil Rights Position | Human Rights Campaign

President Donald Trump has selected John Gore for a key role in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Gore is the lawyer who defended the University of North Carolina in a suit challenging the school’s enforcement of the discriminatory HB2.

“President Trump just appointed someone who defended one of the most discriminatory laws in the land to a key role in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. This is shameful,” said HRC Legal Director Sarah Warbelow. “If these reports are true, anybody who cares about civil rights should be gravely concerned. Among other things, HB2 places transgender North Carolinians in harm's way and bans cities from passing non-discrimination protections, which has cost the state more than $600 million. President Trump appears to be assembling an anti-LGBTQ team to lead the very agency charged with ensuring every American is protected from discrimination.” Trump Appoints Lawyer Who Defended HB2 to Civil Rights Position | Human Rights Campaign

A good lawyer will be ready to represent either side of any issue. The same way hillary represented a child rapist.

If every American is supposed to be protected, who is protecting the Christians from gays intent on destroying them?

Yea, Christians.

These aren't traditional Christians. Traditional Christians are known for helping the poor. Helping the sick. Worshiping Jesus and not money. Marrying only once. Being honest.

None of that sounds anything like today's Republicans. Does that sound like Trump?

The tea party sounds more like what Satan would organize.

When was the last time you read the bible?

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

So now Trump is coming after gays? You libs have lost it, seek help for your TOCD.

It's ridiculous. Trump is literally the most pro gay rights president ever elected. Even Obama ran against gay marriage to get himself elected.

Absolutely assinine

Pence is the most hate gays vice president that I've ever been aware of.

First, work on your grammar. It's atrocious.

Second, there is zero evidence that mike pence hates anyone, let alone gays

Third, pence's viewpoints have nothing to do with what trump will do. Hence irrelevant.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s running mate, attracted national attention last year when he signed a religious freedom law that members of the LGBT community said could worsen discrimination against them.

After criticism from the business community, Pence signed an amendment to the law intended to protect gays and lesbians.

But it was not his first brush with criticism from the LGBT community. A self-described “Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,” the former member of Congress was a prominent conservative figure in battles over marriage equality and equal rights in the last decade.

Read More: Donald Trump Names Veep Pick on Twitter

Here are some of the statements and positions Pence had has related to LGBT issues:

He said gay couples signaled ‘societal collapse’

In 2006, as head of the Republican Study Committee, a group of the 100 most-conservative House members, Pence rose in support of a constitutional amendment that would have defined marriage as between a man and a woman. Citing a Harvard researcher, Pence said in his speech, “societal collapse was always brought about following an advent of the deterioration of marriage and family.” Pence also called being gay a choice and said keeping gays from marrying was not discrimination, but an enforcement of “God’s idea.”

He opposed a law that would prohibit discrimination against LGBT people in the workplace

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act would have banned discrimination against people based on sexual orientation. Pence voted against that law in 2007 and later said the law “wages war on freedom and religion in the workplace.”

More than 20 years after the bill was first introduced, the Senate approved the proposal in 2013, but the bill failed in the House.

Read More: Why Donald Trump Picked Mike Pence as Running Mate

He opposed the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Pence favored the longtime military policy of not letting soldiers openly identify as gay. In 2010, Pence told CNN he did not want to see the military become “a backdrop for social experimentation.” The policy ended in 2011.

He rejected the Obama administration directive on transgender bathrooms

In May, the federal government directed school districts to allow students to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with. The directive came as criticism crescendoed around a North Carolina law that would have restricted the use of bathrooms.

Along with many other conservatives, Pence opposed Obama’s directive and said it was a state issue. “The federal government has not business getting involved in issues of this nature,” Pence said.

Read More: Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s Running Mate, Disagrees With Him on These 3 Issues

Here's What Mike Pence Said on LGBT Issues Over the Years

Irrelevant to what I said

How the hell is it irrelevant?? Trump picked this guy. Do you think that he didn't know who and what he is?? You might also want to have a look at this Donald Trump Is Proving How Mortally Dangerous He Is To LGBT Equality | The Huffington Post

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

I think it's absolutely absurd that rdean or anyone else is trying to claim that trump is coming after gays when they can't name a single policy of his that does so.

And gays are supposed to be grateful to democrats for gay marriage? We just had two terms of a man who ran opposing gay marriage and then conveniently flipped when it was politically expedient. And he didn't even do anything to give you gay marriage. A rogue court with a majority of Republican appointments on it did.

Course that didn't stop Obama from taking credit for it. Nor did it stop you from nominating Hillary who likewise opposed gay marriage

Why are you blathering about Obama and who gays should be "grateful to" First of all, David Axelrod, in his book on Obama said that Obama never was really opposed to marriage equality and in fact wanted to come out in favor much sooner. However, his advisors begged him not to, knowing that in 2008 it would have been political suicide.

Second of all, he later set the tone in the national discourse about gay rights and marriage. The courts are sensitive to that tone- to public opinion. Gays owe their victory to many people, including straight people who can't stomach discrimination. They owe it to the hundreds of business leaders, clergy, and even Republicans who supported them.

In other words he blatantly lied and chose to "oppress gays" for political reasons. And then did absolutely nothing when he assumed the "correct" position but should be praised.

How the hell did he oppress gays . That is just stupid!! The worst that you can say is that he didn't defent them at first.

He did nothing ? He got DADT tossed out. He directed the justice department to not defend DOMA. There is more

 

[Norman]

Start off with Betsy DeVos:

Donald Trump’s education secretary could be justifiably quashed by the U.S. Senate. Her long public record indicates she is a religious Christian zealot who does not believe in the actual separation of church and state, wants public monies funneled into religious schools, and has contributed through family foundations to bigoted groups with a militant anti-gay agenda. During her confirmation hearing she gave disturbing answers to questions about her views of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, standardized tests, and school vouchers. She also suggested guns have a place in American schools, though her claim that they were necessary to defend students from grizzly bear attacks was not very compelling.

Watching her testimony was both hilarious and frightening. That the right wing could agree with her on guns in schools was just bizarre. She believes in conversion therapy and home school.

The bitch firmly believes in "Conversion Therapy". For anyone who doesn't know what that is, the concept was central to the film "A Clockwork Orange".

Trump Education Nominee Betsy DeVos Lied to the Senate



And of course, we know what Pence position is. In his state, he diverted money to help AIDS patients to invest in conversion therapy..

And they do all this evil going against our very constitution in the name of Christianity. Jesus would have a fit.

These are some nasty, dirty Christian Taliban. America had to take Trump's threat seriously. Right wingers are some dangerous people. Lucky his favorability rating is in the 30's. America may finally be getting it.

The state of the author's mind during the creation of the OP:

You could just accept that Trump is the president now. Many stress cycles saved, also you would not have to look like a fool on a rampage.

 

[hadit]

Start off with Betsy DeVos:

Donald Trump’s education secretary could be justifiably quashed by the U.S. Senate. Her long public record indicates she is a religious Christian zealot who does not believe in the actual separation of church and state, wants public monies funneled into religious schools, and has contributed through family foundations to bigoted groups with a militant anti-gay agenda. During her confirmation hearing she gave disturbing answers to questions about her views of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, standardized tests, and school vouchers. She also suggested guns have a place in American schools, though her claim that they were necessary to defend students from grizzly bear attacks was not very compelling.

Watching her testimony was both hilarious and frightening. That the right wing could agree with her on guns in schools was just bizarre. She believes in conversion therapy and home school.

The bitch firmly believes in "Conversion Therapy". For anyone who doesn't know what that is, the concept was central to the film "A Clockwork Orange".

Trump Education Nominee Betsy DeVos Lied to the Senate



And of course, we know what Pence position is. In his state, he diverted money to help AIDS patients to invest in conversion therapy..

And they do all this evil going against our very constitution in the name of Christianity. Jesus would have a fit.

These are some nasty, dirty Christian Taliban. America had to take Trump's threat seriously. Right wingers are some dangerous people. Lucky his favorability rating is in the 30's. America may finally be getting it.

Really? and people are going to be forced into conversion therapy?

If Republicans have their way.

Wow, that is remarkably stupid. Do you always sink to that level of vacuity?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Start off with Betsy DeVos:

Donald Trump’s education secretary could be justifiably quashed by the U.S. Senate. Her long public record indicates she is a religious Christian zealot who does not believe in the actual separation of church and state, wants public monies funneled into religious schools, and has contributed through family foundations to bigoted groups with a militant anti-gay agenda. During her confirmation hearing she gave disturbing answers to questions about her views of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, standardized tests, and school vouchers. She also suggested guns have a place in American schools, though her claim that they were necessary to defend students from grizzly bear attacks was not very compelling.

Watching her testimony was both hilarious and frightening. That the right wing could agree with her on guns in schools was just bizarre. She believes in conversion therapy and home school.

The bitch firmly believes in "Conversion Therapy". For anyone who doesn't know what that is, the concept was central to the film "A Clockwork Orange".

Trump Education Nominee Betsy DeVos Lied to the Senate



And of course, we know what Pence position is. In his state, he diverted money to help AIDS patients to invest in conversion therapy..

And they do all this evil going against our very constitution in the name of Christianity. Jesus would have a fit.

These are some nasty, dirty Christian Taliban. America had to take Trump's threat seriously. Right wingers are some dangerous people. Lucky his favorability rating is in the 30's. America may finally be getting it.

Really? and people are going to be forced into conversion therapy?

If Republicans have their way.

Wow, that is remarkably stupid. Do you always sink to that level of vacuity?

Yep

 

[Silhouette]

Great post there norman! So true.

 

[Papageorgio]

Trump Appoints Lawyer Who Defended HB2 to Civil Rights Position | Human Rights Campaign

President Donald Trump has selected John Gore for a key role in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Gore is the lawyer who defended the University of North Carolina in a suit challenging the school’s enforcement of the discriminatory HB2.

“President Trump just appointed someone who defended one of the most discriminatory laws in the land to a key role in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. This is shameful,” said HRC Legal Director Sarah Warbelow. “If these reports are true, anybody who cares about civil rights should be gravely concerned. Among other things, HB2 places transgender North Carolinians in harm's way and bans cities from passing non-discrimination protections, which has cost the state more than $600 million. President Trump appears to be assembling an anti-LGBTQ team to lead the very agency charged with ensuring every American is protected from discrimination.” Trump Appoints Lawyer Who Defended HB2 to Civil Rights Position | Human Rights Campaign

Isn't an attorney supposed to fight for whoever hirers them? Clinton defended a rapist, its a job.

 

[Papageorgio]

If the fundies want to fuck with freedom of our people...Well, we should riot!! Riot by the tens of millions.

Lets see these bastards stop us.

Maybe you can combine them with your KKK club.

 

[Silhouette]

I think Matthew is pimping for the LGBT.

 

[Silhouette]

If the fundies want to fuck with freedom of our people...Well, we should riot!! Riot by the tens of millions.

Lets see these bastards stop us.

Once the GOP publicly declares that Obergefell was a new law enacted by the Judicial Branch, which seeks to legally bifurcate as a matter of contract, children away from either a vital mother or father for life....then you can have your riot. But I doubt "tens of millions" will show up "to defend the "right" of LGBT cult members to mind-fuck little kids in "marriage"...

The GOP has not yet framed their argument in this way publicly. But once they do...these numbers will pop up against you... Poll. Please Vote. Did You Have a Mother & Father in Your Life? (note the results are across all political affiliations. Which lines up nicely with how election 2016 turned out for democrats)

 

[rdean]

 

[Silhouette]

I'll take poor fashion as long as kids get both a mother and father out of the marriage contract....like they used to until 2015....for you know...like thousands of years...

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

I'll take poor fashion as long as kids get both a mother and father out of the marriage contract....like they used to until 2015....for you know...like thousands of years...

So before 2015 all kids had a mother and a father?? Same sex couples did not have kids before that? Never mind. I don't really expect an answer from you.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

If the fundies want to fuck with freedom of our people...Well, we should riot!! Riot by the tens of millions.

Lets see these bastards stop us.

Once the GOP publicly declares that Obergefell was a new law enacted by the Judicial Branch, which seeks to legally bifurcate as a matter of contract, children away from either a vital mother or father for life....then you can have your riot. But I doubt "tens of millions" will show up "to defend the "right" of LGBT cult members to mind-fuck little kids in "marriage"...

The GOP has not yet framed their argument in this way publicly. But once they do...these numbers will pop up against you... Poll. Please Vote. Did You Have a Mother & Father in Your Life? (note the results are across all political affiliations. Which lines up nicely with how election 2016 turned out for democrats)

Yes, Because of Obergefell, suddenly all of those innocent babies were ripped from the arms of their loving, heterosexual parents and given over to the gay mafia who demanded them so that they could groom them to join in their perverted lifestyle.

 

[Silhouette]

I'll take poor fashion as long as kids get both a mother and father out of the marriage contract....like they used to until 2015....for you know...like thousands of years...

So before 2015 all kids had a mother and a father?? Same sex couples did not have kids before that? Never mind. I don't really expect an answer from you.

No. Before 2015 marriage used to remedy and provide the contractual benefit to children of having both a mother and father. As of 2015, marriage doesn't guarantee children those benefits anymore. And, they didn't have unique representation at Obergefell; a contract-revision Hearing.....which is against the law. Before a contract is revised, all parties to it must have representation at the Table.

And before you launch into the cult of LGBT's talking-point of "marriage isn't about children getting benefits" I'll remind you that your cult petitioned the Court in Obergefell on exactly those terms. Your cult said to the Court "You must give gays marriage because of how it will benefit the children!!" But you didn't say what benefits those kids would get that would mitigate permanently losing the hope of ever having a mother or father...for life.

Kids are born into all sorts of unfortunate situations, like single homes, incest, polygamy, lesbian homes. That doesn't mean we legitimize those unfortunate situations to deplete marriage's thousand-year-old vital benefit and remedy to these unfortunate situations: a mother and father.

Children should have had separate unique representation at Obergefell; which they did not. The power of states setting standards for marriage when it comes to behaviors (marrying too young, marrying the same gender, marrying one's brother or sister, marrying too many people) will be restored in favor of children: for whom the marriage contract was originally invented and maintained for over a thousand years. 5 people aren't going to get to overturn 100s of billions of people's expectations of a legal convention as a favor to George Soros's LGBT cult army.

 

[NLT]

trump may get to appoint a couple of ussc judges.....dont think anything is beyond belief at this point

Then there would have to be a case brought up thru the lower courts that gives a good valid CONSTITUTIONAL reason to strike down the prior decision....

 

[NLT]

If wishes were horses even beggars would ride. Gays aren't going back in the closet so you can use your wishing well pennies on something more productive.

 

[mdk]

I'll take poor fashion as long as kids get both a mother and father out of the marriage contract....like they used to until 2015....for you know...like thousands of years...

Again, how does stopping gays from getting married give their children a father and a mother? We both know why you never answer this question and always deflect to polygamy and incest instead. Your solution doesn't address your problem. So what's true end game here, Sil? It's okay to come out and say it. lol

 

[Silhouette]

Two spam posts on this page to bleed out some points eh?