Why do you support trump if he opposes gay marriage
It's a strange time to be one of the roughly 25 percent of LGBT Americans who lean Republican. Liberal media and Democratic politicians are making apocalyptic pronouncements about the supposed fascist dystopia that awaits America under a potential second term for Donald Trump, like the Biden campaign tweeting images from The Handmaid's Tale. Yet at the alike time that all this hysteria is going on, the Republican Party's latest platform includes a huge win for gay rights.
For years, a key aim of gay Republicans and their allies has been the removal of the GOP's anti-gay-marriage plank from its official platform. While Trump made history as the first president to take office accepting same-sex attracted marriage, the Republican platform he formally ran on in 2016 explicitly endorsed "traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman" and specifically denounced the Supreme Court cases enshrining gay marriage as the law of the land. And in 2020, Republicans essentially recycled the 2016 platform and ran on it again, rather than produce a fresh one, citing the pandemic's disruptions.
In the new 2024 platform Republicans just released, this language is nowhere to
Donald Trump's Newfound Love for LGBT Voters
— -- Donald Trump is now catering to a different organization of voters in illumination of the deadly Orlando nightclub attack: LGBT voters.
Even though he has repeatedly said throughout his campaign that he is against same-sex marriage, that hasn't stopped the presumptive Republican presidential nominee from saying he thinks he would be the better candidate for the gay community.
His argument is largely based around his efforts to curtail what he calls "radical Islam," which he blames for the Pulse nightclub shooting which left 49 people dead and 53 others injured.
"I'm far better for the queer community than she is," Trump said of Hillary Clinton.
"She talks a lot about it, and yet she'll allow people in [to the U.S.] that want to kill people from the community, from that community, and I think it's terrible," he told Fox News on Monday, the day after the Orlando attack.
How His Position Has Shifted Over the Years
In 1999, Trump sat down with Tim Russert for an interview on "Meet the Press" in which he said that while he hadn't "given lots of consideration to" ga
PolitiFact FL: Where Trump and Biden stand on key LGBTQ+ issues
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President Biden kicked off Celebration Month this year with a letter to LGBTQ+ Americans, posting "your president and my entire Administration have your back."
Former President Trump has been silent on social media when it comes to LGBTQ+ issues and railed against trans women’s participation in sports at a recent campaign rally in Vegas.
If it wasn’t already clear, these highest two presidential candidates hold distinct views on LGBTQ+ issues.
Throughout his presidency, Biden has used his office to state support for Diverse people, celebrate Transsexual Day of Awareness and Pride Month, and regularly create social media calls about the issues LGBTQ+ people meet. His administration has worked to found antidiscrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as greater access to gender-affirming care.
As a product, he has earned the endorsement of major LGBTQ+ support groups such as the Human Rights Campaign.
Trump’s record
What is Donald Trump's stance on gay marriage? Here's what he's said about same-sex couples
Donald Trump's beat in the 2024 presidential election was unsettling for many in the Homosexual community.
Trump campaigned with anti-transgender rhetoric, and at least one LGBTQ+ organization saw a sharp uptick in people reaching out to their crisis services in the days following the election.
Concerns that same-sex marriage could be under threat began to surface as well, especially after the U.S. Supreme Court, including Trump-appointed justices, overturned the federal right protecting abortion in 2022.
With high common support for same-sex marriage and previous Supreme Court decisions, some say there is little cause for concern about the continued rights of same-sex marriage. Here is what to know about the issue with the incoming administration.
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Trump's stance on male lover marriage has varied over the years.
Trump expressed help for domestic partnerships in an interview he did with The Advocate in 2000, as reported by CBS News. The signal of support c
Trump Says He's 'Fine' With Gay Marriage in '60 Minutes' Interview
In his first on-camera interview since last week's election, President-elect Donald Trump proclaimed he's "fine" with same-sex marriage.
“It’s irrelevant because it was already settled. It’s law,” Trump said in a "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sunday night. “It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean it’s done. These cases hold gone to the Supreme Court. They’ve been settled. And I’m fine with that.”
These comments manifest to contradict statements Trump made during an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace in January, where he said he would "strongly consider" appointing Supreme Court justices who would repeal gay marriage.
Trump's stance on LGBTQ issues has been unclear, though he has made a number of overtures to the community since clinching the Republican nomination. During his speech at the Republican National Convention, for example, he proclaimed, "As your president, I will undertake everything in my power to guard our LGBTQ citizens from the hostility and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology."
He also held up a Identity flag at one of his rallies during the ultimate weeks of