Trump surrogate defends anti-LGBT GOP platform: It ‘isn’t hostile’ like gay nightclub massacre
Source: RawStory
DAVID EDWARDS
14 JUL 2016 AT 10:09 ET
CNN contributor Jeffrey Lord argued Thursday that Donald Trumps support of the Republican Party platform was not as hostile to the LGBT community as last months massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando.
Trump has said hes going to be a better friend to the gay community, CNN host Ana Cabrera reminded Lord, noting that the Republican Party platform opposes same-sex marriage rights, backs efforts to restrict bathroom rights to birth gender, supports parents right to choose so-called sexual conversion therapy for minors and currently protects businesses who refuse services to gays and lesbians based on religious beliefs.
Does this fly with Donald Trump? she wondered.
Well, sure, Lord insisted. I think Donald Trump is very much a traditional guy. I mean, hes got his positions on this staked out. This doesnt mean hostility, the Trump surrogate added. Theres a difference between saying that you want bathrooms to be men and women and that sort of thing and being hostile here. He continued: I mean, heavens, we just had this terrible, terrible situation in Orlando where somebody who was devoted to radical Islam, which is quite hostile I mean, seriously hostile to gays went in and murdered 49 people in cold blood. I mean, we do have to have a sense of proportion here.
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Mendocino
(7,504 posts)"You're lucky we aren't openly calling for the murder of LGBT in our party platform, but watch your back"
Or am I being hyperbolic?
niyad
(113,511 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)They want to take them out back behind the barn and shoot them.
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)Eugene
(61,937 posts)That's a mighty low standard.
Gays should love Trump because he won't shoot them?
I suppose us black folks should love him too because
he doesn't openly support Dylann Roof.
Really?
sarae
(3,284 posts)How merciful of them; I guess we should be thankful that they don't want to outright execute gay people and minorities.
JudyM
(29,263 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)murderer this is a very serious red flag.
Chemisse
(30,814 posts)niyad
(113,511 posts)and that whole sickening, hate-filled crew.
Chemisse
(30,814 posts)Trump has his standards.
christx30
(6,241 posts)we'll just treat you like second class citizens."
Does that pretty much cover it?
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)Not calling for death, merely the abrogation of rights and anysense of being as a person and a full citizen.
Not killing people (even though many on the right have called for just that) - yet encouraging laws and social norms that make life unbearable isn't a far cry from murder.
To believe that living under oppression, abuse, and the ever constant fear of attack or death at the hands of bigots, isn't hostile is insane.
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)if you're not speaking for the killing of gays, you're not homophobic at all
If you're not advocating the slavery and killing of black people, you can't possibly be racist
If you have a wife and a daughter, you don't have women problems.
everything is so black and white to them. I have daughters, I have a black friend, my cousin is gay...
Rex
(65,616 posts)They worry about all these other groups destroying civilization, all the while they ARE DESTROYING CIVILIZATION!
HELLO??
0rganism
(23,962 posts)Nihil
(13,508 posts)One day the GOP is going to find a half-way competent speaker ... I think the
last one was Bush I ...