(10-11-2017 11:27 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Here's how Trump has supported the LGBT community since taking office

1) Refused to publicly condemn or even criticize (much less punish) Russia, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, and Egypt as they murder and jail LGBT persons for the crime of existing. Concentration camps for Gay persons? No problem, according to Trump and his SecState.

2) Supported a license to discriminate against every LGBT person, including support for the denial of health care access for LGBT persons.

3) Appointment of advocates of jailing Gay persons in the USA to prominent positions including the AG, and Federal Judges.

4) Trying to throw all Transpersons out of the military without consultation with their military leaders. Our first responders and military are to be venerated by Trumpers, so long as they're white, cisgendered, straight, etc. The rationale Trump used was that it was too expensive, but of course the military has spent millions more training those soldiers and the medical costs are less than Trump has spent on his golf trips or that the military has spent on viagara since he took office.

5) Blocked visas for persons fleeing literal death camps

6) Removed a Gay flag from the Natl Park Service's Stonewall monument (how friggin' petty can you be?). Meanwhile Confederate flags fly on Federal Property.

7) Voted in opposition to the death penalty for being Gay. No alternative resolution was proposed condemning and punishing nations that criminalize being Gay

8) On Friday, Trump will speak at (and implicitly endorse) a vicious hate group at a meeting in DC.

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Now on the not so genocidal/awful side.....Trump did appoint two rich Gay men to meaningless positions (neither have been confirmed and neither will be able to do anything pro-Gay in those positions). And he didn't remove existing non-discrimination protections for Federal workers (which is pointless since he's refusing to appoint any real amount of LGBT persons to anything). Meanwhile, anti-Gay homophobes are being appointed left and right to positions specifically for the purpose of harming LGBT persons.


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Trump is a vicious hater of LGBT persons who runs an administration seeking to harm the LGBT community.

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If there's a rational for anyone who doesn't hate the LGBT community to support Trump, I can't find it.