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Dalziel3979

(72 posts) Fri Jun 17, 2016, 09:16 AM Jun 2016

House Republicans Block LGBT Protections After Orlando Shooting

Back to business as usual then. Couldn't even wait a full week could they?

http://www.advocate.com/politics/2016/6/15/house-republicans-block-lgbt-protections-after-orlando-shooting

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House Republicans Block LGBT Protections After Orlando Shooting (Original Post) Dalziel3979 Jun 2016 OP

Scumbags Lee-Lee Jun 2016 #1

And yet, there's this: GOP Makes 'Appalling' Pitch To LGBTs: Dems Are Choosing Muslims Over You tanyev Jun 2016 #2

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)

1. Scumbags

Reply to Dalziel3979 (Original post)

Fri Jun 17, 2016, 09:18 AM

Jun 2016

tanyev

(42,527 posts)

2. And yet, there's this: GOP Makes 'Appalling' Pitch To LGBTs: Dems Are Choosing Muslims Over You

Reply to Dalziel3979 (Original post)

Fri Jun 17, 2016, 09:34 AM

Jun 2016

The same Republicans who have argued that gay couples should not be allowed to marry, that LGBT Americans don't need federal anti-discrimination protections and that trans people should not use the bathroom that matches their identity are now claiming that they -- not Democrats -- are the party on the LGBT community's side.

Their reasoning? That somehow, in the wake of the Orlando shooting at a gay night club that left 49 people dead, there's now a mutually exclusive choice between supporting Muslims and protecting gay people, and Democrats have chosen the former.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/republicans-muslims-lgbt-orlando-attack

They really have no shame at all. Grand Old Party of Sociopaths.

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