Orlando LGBT community to Rubio: We're not your crutch

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Celia Ruiz says she has a message for U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio: "My brother is not a crutch."

Ruiz, whose brother Juan Ramon Guerrero was killed with 48 others at the gay nightclub Pulse almost two months ago, was part of a large group protesting a religious conference of about 700 pastors that Rubio and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump were scheduled to speak at. Activists labeled the "Rediscovering God in America Renewal Project" conference at the Orange County Convention Center as anti-LGBT because several of those attending hold anti-gay views.

Celia Ruiz says she has a message for U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio: "My brother is not a crutch."

Ruiz, whose brother Juan Ramon Guerrero was killed with 48 others at the gay nightclub Pulse almost two months ago, was part of a large group protesting a religious conference of about 700 pastors that Rubio and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump were scheduled to speak at. Activists labeled the "Rediscovering God in America Renewal Project" conference at the Orange County Convention Center as anti-LGBT because several of those attending hold anti-gay views.

Ruiz and others echoed that they were upset Rubio had used the mass shooting at Pulse as the reason for his decision to run for re-election and was now speaking in front of those preaching intolerance. Her brother and everyone else who died was not just a crutch for a political career, she says.

"I'm standing here today outside this conference center mourning my little brother instead of celebrating the next big step in his life," Ruiz says.

"Instead of showing support for us on the two-month anniversary of the massacre that took place at Pulse or working to stop the next mass shooting, Marco Rubio and the Republican nominee for president Donald Trump are headlining a conference hosted by an anti-gay hate group."

"This is a slap in the face to me, to my family, to the other [48] families, to the 53 survivors, to all the people that were there, to the Orlando community. How dare they promote hate and intolerance in our city when we have already seen firsthand what hate and easy access to guns can do to our people?"

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Donnie Dipshit, Little Marco, and a fuck ton of "religious" bigots. I hope the city of Orlando got a good cleansing when they left.