Donald Trump seems to have discovered some change you can believe in, and has just shuffled around the leadership of his campaign (again). Out goes Paul Manafort, who may or may not have been illegally accepting money from foreign powers, and in comes Breitbart News chairman Steve Bannon and conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway.
Wait, who?
Well, you’ll be delighted (and no doubt shocked) to learn that Trump’s new best friends have a long history of homophobia. Surprise!
Bannon, for example, went nuts over Target’s inclusive bathroom policy, accusing the store of “trying to exclude people who are decent, hard-working people who don’t want their four-year-old daughter to have to go into a bathroom with a guy with a beard in a dress.” Good one!
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Conway called homosexuality “corrupting” and said that people “don’t want their kids looking at a cartoon with a bunch of lesbian mothers.” She did a bunch of polling for the National Organization for Marriage, which unbelievably still exists. (In fact, just last week, NOM sent out a fundraising email in which they inadvertently called their own members “pathetic.” Truer words were never spoken!)
Conway also spoke at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, and said that opposing homosexuality is now “right versus left, but right versus wrong.”
Trump likes to pretend that he’s a friend to the gays, but a quick look over at the company he keeps proves that’s simply not true. And of course, running mate Mike Pence is even worse.
Under Bannon’s leadership, Breitbart has run headlines like “The Trouble with Trannies” and pushed a false conspiracy theory that Matthew Shepard’s murder was part of a conspiracy. His site also claimed that being gay is a mental illness.
mw11
Ummm No. Truth always wins. Clinton doesn’t want gay marriage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZkK2_6H9MM
Kangol
She supports same-sex marriage, and has repeatedly affirmed it. She would appoint judges to the federal courts who would uphold it. This is not a debatable issue with her. Or the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine.
rand503
Good lord. Hillary has SAID repeatedly she supports SSM. The Republican platform is the most anti-gay in history.
So taking all that into account — who do you think will be more porgy in the next four years?
Hint: If you are still against SSM today, you will likely be against it in the next four years.
Pistolo
At least Hillary changed her mind in the right direction- Trump went from being for gay marriage to turning against it and putting people in power who are viciously homophobic.
Brian
Breitbart is very popular. It is not really homophobic. It is a conservative site that welcomes everybody. There is less censorship on Breitbart than there is on liberal web sites or gay web sites.
leobaga
Queerty is the most biased gay site there is. Question the homophobic countries that donated to the fraud Clinton foundation like Saudi Arabia. Hillary only cares about money. She will never speaks out against Dubai, also one of her donors, to stop discriminating trans and gays!
Trump has been a supporter of gay marriage from the beginning. He only changed his position during the primaries to win the nom. Now that he’s the nominee, he revealed his true beliefs — he will protect gay rights.
No republican nominee has ever acknowledge gay rights during the convention. That takes courage. See his moving speech at the end: https://youtu.be/c3sRAA1o4t0
cutterq
trump will get about 40% of the gay vote. White men, no matter what else, do not want to give up white power.