Gay Republican group endorses Trump in astonishing act of gaslighting

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Published 11 mins ago on August 16, 2019

By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
- Commentary

With more than a year before the 2020 presidential election a nationwide gay group, the Log Cabin Republicans, have announced they are endorsing President Donald Trump for re-election. The 42-year old group wisely refused to endorse Trump during the 2016 election, but in a flip on Thursday decreed the anti-LGBTQ President has “met his commitments to LGBTQ Americans.”

That’s just plain false.

Log Cabin Republican chairman Robert Kabel and vice chairwoman Jill Homan penned a 751 word Washington Post op-ed, which the paper surprisingly appears to not have thoroughly fact-checked, attempting to justify the turnabout endorsement.

The op-ed comes during the same week that Trump has fired strong and potentially devastating attacking against the LGBTQ community in a clear attempt to further weaken our civil rights.

On Tuesday, as NCRM reported, Trump’s Dept. of Justice was caught attempting to strong-arm the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to reverse years of findings and rulings, and declare before the U.S. Supreme Court that discrimination against LGBT workers is legal.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/gay-republican-group-endorses-trump-in-astonishing-act-of-gaslighting/

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This is but a small sampling of President Donald Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ people.

If the Log Cabin Republicans wish to pretend to support the LGBTQ community, they would do better than hitching their wagons to the most anti-LGBTQ president in modern American history.

Donald Trump is the most anti-LGBT President in modern American history.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. "astonishing act of gaslighting" is a profound understatement

I guess they are happy with their tax cuts?

[CurtEastPoint]

3. I abhor these 'brothers' and 'sisters' (my ass!) who are so GD selfish. F them and F DJT

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. 100% agree

[3Hotdogs]

2. It may be a B'rer Rabbit endorsement.

If Jesus's people believe Trump helped da gays,..... and we all know Jesus didn't much like that kind of stuff (except for his 12 close friends), well there goes the evangelical vote.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Has that sort of strategy ever really worked for them, though?

They've been endorsing Republicans for President for years and it's not seemed to have any effect on the Evangelicals, whom probably try their best to pretend they don't notice. Or they simply don't care because they know who *really* is in charge in a Republican WH and it's NOT "teh gays"

[brewens]

6. Is that really just a couple wealthy greedy gay people with some money behind

them? Seems like it couldn't be a very big group. I doubt they are very influential with gay people, but maybe allow some republicans to pretend they aren't anti-LGBTQ.

[Cousin Dupree]

7. This has got to be an Onion story, right?

[ismnotwasm]

8. It's easy to forget that Trump does everything Republicans want

He’s a bombastic bigot, and a repulsive human being. His apparent incompetence is just misdirection. I’m not surprised by this, Log Cabin Republicans are just that—Republican. That means, “I got mine so fuck you”.

[Zambero]

9. Log Cabin GOP has its cake and eats it too!

With Democrats on record as defending basic human rights of all citizens, they have those bases covered and can move on to greedier pastures.

[rusty fender]

10. When you you hear: Log Cabin Repukes

Think: Roy Cohn

[smirkymonkey]

11. Do they really believe that their fellow LGBTs are that stupid?

That they will go against everything they see, hear, read and know to be true and will just blindly follow the endorsement of the Log Cabin Republicans? I don't. And I think they will find that the greater LGBT community out there to be much more aware and involved than they give them credit for.