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The Grand Old Party has a pretty terrible reputation when it comes to gay rights. Republican elected officials have been warring against the LGBT community for decades, particularly in recent years with the gay community's success in gaining marriage equality.
GOP hysteria over gay marriage, transgender bathroom habits, and the beauty of rainbows has flooded the republican party with bigoted rhetoric and a slew of anti-gay laws in dozens of states around the country. Despite GOP hatred for all things happy and gay, Trump thinks his presidency would be excellent for the LGBT community.
At a recently rally, Trump actually said:
"You tell me: who is better for the gay community and who is better for women than Donald Trump."If Trump's decades of crass remarks and verbal harassment of women are any indication of how he'd treat the gay community, LGBT individuals would do well to run as far away as possible from The Trump. Just like every female within a 1,000 mile radius. After all, Trump wants to punish women who have abortions, doesn't believe we need paid family leave, and calls women pigs.
(you can read an excellent list of all the ways Trump hates women at The Huffington Post)
Right before Trump asked his followers who might be better for women and gay people than The Donald, he uttered this gem:
"As far as gays are concerned they throw them off buildings. They kill gays in these countries."So, Trump thinks that because he wouldn't toss gay people off buildings and kill them that he'd be great for gay people. At the rally, The Donald also said:
"LGBT community is starting to like Donald Trump very, very much lately."If we ignore his propensity for speaking about himself in the third person, Trump's blanket statements about how much gay people love him seem far fetched, particularly in light of his opinions on gay marriage.
In a pretty honest write-up of Trump's opinions, remarks, and current stances on LGBT rights, advocacy organization HRC (Human Rights Campaign) shares a pretty damaging account of Trump's stances on marriage equality:
"Trump has been a consistent opponent of marriage equality. He said that he opposed it because he was a "traditional" guy, choosing to support domestic partnership benefits instead. Trump later reversed himself and said he also opposed civil unions. Despite a brief flirtation with "evolving" in 2013, Trump has consistently maintained his opposition to marriage equality, sometimes by citing polling and making an analogy to his dislike of long golf putters. After the Supreme Court ruling, Trump said the court had made its decision and, although he disagreed with the ruling, he did not support a constitutional amendment that would allow states to re-ban marriage equality. He later said he would appoint Supreme Court judges who would be committed to overturning the ruling."Trump thinks he's great for women despite a total lack of support for basic equality, he believes Mexicans "love" him and will be glad to build his wall, and he thinks he'll be awesome for gay people even though he wants to rescind their basic human rights. Trump must be one of those folks who thinks pain is a good thing.
Hillary Clinton's Twitter feed posted a pretty entertaining video about Trump's stances on gay rights:
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 17, 2016
A belief that a Trump presidency would be "good" for the gay community is about as strange as an organization of gay republicans. Yes, it exists. Sometimes this world makes no sense.
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