Peach State Scholar
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Yeah, I know what I said on my last post, but...
I disagree.
During a GOP debate, he said that he would "strongly consider" nominating Supreme Court justices who'd be willing to overturn Ogberfell.
And more to the point his running mate is former Mike Pence, who is vehemently opposed to marriage equality.
So TDK is entirely correct: if you're LGBT, or support marriage equality in general, you have every right to be concerned now that Trump is in office. There's a reason why evangelicals supported that ticket in record numbers.
TDK knock it off. Hillary's husband created DOMA and she voted for it. Obama was anti-gay marriage and flipped on it.
Donald is not going to destroy gay marriage ..it wasn't even a platform issue...he's not going to create death squads for Black people as you insist...please get a grip.
I disagree.
Speaking of the law, Trump says he disagrees with the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage. "We have some very terrible Supreme Court justices, and frankly, they should have at least had that [same-sex marriage case] as a state's right issue," he told CBN News. Trump does, however, consider gay marriage the law of the land and that puts him at odds with some of his evangelical rivals.
During a GOP debate, he said that he would "strongly consider" nominating Supreme Court justices who'd be willing to overturn Ogberfell.
And more to the point his running mate is former Mike Pence, who is vehemently opposed to marriage equality.
In response to the directive issued by the Obama administration on May 13, 2016, stating that transgender public school students must be afforded the right to use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identities, Pence said, “The federal government has no business getting involved in issues of this nature.”[10]
Pence supported Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the policy that prohibited soldiers from openly identifying as gay until it was ended in 2011. Pence told CNN in 2010 that without the policy, the military could become “a backdrop for social experimentation.”[10]
In 2007, Pence voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a law to prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. He said the law “wages war on freedom and religion in the workplace.”[10]
In 2006, Mike Pence voted for H.J.Res.88 - the Marriage Protection Amendment, which proposed declaring "that: (1) marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman; and (2) neither the U.S. Constitution nor the constitution of any state shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents of marriage be conferred upon any other union."[43]
In 2006, Pence supported a constitutional amendment that would have defined marriage as between a man and a woman. Pence said in a speech that cited a Harvard researcher, “societal collapse was always brought about following an advent of the deterioration of marriage and family.” Pence also said that being gay is a choice and that preventing gay couples from marrying was not discrimination, but a means of enforcing "God's idea."[10]
So TDK is entirely correct: if you're LGBT, or support marriage equality in general, you have every right to be concerned now that Trump is in office. There's a reason why evangelicals supported that ticket in record numbers.
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