Every single Trump cabinet member so far opposes LGBT rights

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Every single Trump cabinet member so far opposes LGBT rights

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/11/29/every-single-trump-cabinet-member-so-far-opposes-lgbt-rights/

Nick Duffy
29th November 2016, 5:58 PM


These are the people who will be in the room where it happens (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Every single cabinet member appointed by Donald Trump so far opposes LGBT rights.
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So far the billionaire – who claimed he would “protect our L-G-B-T-Q citizens” while running for election – has appointed a string of politicians who oppose LGBT rights.


With many spots still up for grabs, here’s a run-down of Trump’s cabinet so far:




Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions is known as one of the most conservative and anti-LGBT members of Congress, holding a 0 percent rating on the Human Rights Campaign’s Congressional Scorecard on LGBT rights.

He fought vocally against equal marriage and discrimination protections for LGBT people, and opposed lifting the ban on openly gay people serving in the military.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos

Betsy DeVos is a prominent donor to the anti-gay marriage lobby. She previously donated $200,000 in a successful bid to add an anti-gay marriage amendment to the Michigan ballot.

DeVos family organisations have also made large donations to anti-gay marriage causes – $500,000 to the National Organization for Marriage, and $100,000 to Florida4Marriage.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price

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[Cha]

1. Of course.. another thing they have in common is they support

a sexual predator who is a pathological liar.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. But do we matter?

We are just "boutique issues." One thing Bill Maher said that really pissed me off and even more, self-professed liberals and 'progressives', agreed. The number two group in being victimized by hate crimes (number one goes to the Jews, per population), and yet, we are told "wait, now's not the time." or "Equality has already been won."

Yeah, we know what we are to them when we walk out of a room, what's really worse is what we are to our so-called allies...$$$.

[Solly Mack]

6. Yeah, you matter. I don't give a fuck what anyone else thinks on the subject

You matter.

Equality has to be constantly guarded, constantly protected - which means the fight never ends.

Anyone that doesn't understand that is just plain stupid.

[mythology]

22. Yes you matter. The LGBTQ community matters

Yes not every Democrat has or is as supportive as we should be. Yes it is taking too long for full equality. But we as a society and as a party are moving in the correct direction.

As the debate over abortion shows, the fight may never be over. And frankly that sucks. But we are making progress because the LGBTQ community does matter.

[Solly Mack]

3. Because the cultural war is still being fought.

Eight years of Obama didn't bring an end to the cultural wars, regardless of what anyone thought.

Milton Friedman wrote that crisis brings change...

He observed that "only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change". When that crisis occurs, the actions taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. Some people stockpile canned goods and water in preparation for major disasters; Friedmanites stockpile free-market ideas. And once a crisis has struck, the University of Chicago professor was convinced that it was crucial to act swiftly, to impose rapid and irreversible change before the crisis-racked society slipped back into the "tyranny of the status quo".

Trump (Bannon) campaigned on a country in crisis (Make America Great Again)

The right-wing is all about what they call the "traditional" way of doing things, that they equate to the American way of doing things (our way of life). Mostly cultural.

They are also all about the punitive (Mostly economic) for those who don't agree with them on this.

If you strip people of their social justice (rights, protections), you impact their economic well being.

But the right feels if you strip them of those rights and protections, to include economic protections, then you either send them into hiding, or they change to your way of thinking. Either way they have been punished and now obey, conform or don't make waves.

If you go into hiding, don't make waves, or conform, then they feel more comfortable in their white, primarily male, Christian dominant world. And Bannon, through Trump, did promote just that.

Since the election, Trump supporters aren't directing their anger at banking executives or business owners or even profits before people politicians - they are attacking the scapegoats of Trump's "build that wall", "deport those people", not white, not straight, not Christian - POC, LGBT, women..everyone that isn't them and everyone they blame for why America isn't great (primarily male, white, straight, Christian) anymore. All cultural.

Education shapes the cultural, which will impact the economic. (Betsy bug Devos)

How Sessions applies the law will also, as well as the economic.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price will shape both the cultural and economic.

And all three (along with the rest) will use punitive economic approaches to force what they see as necessary and needed cultural changes.

[Akacia]

10. POC?

I agree with all you are saying but I do not understand the abbreviation POC can you explain? I have seen it on here before but have not been able to figure it out yet. Thanks.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. People of Color (i.e. Minorities)

n/t

[Solly Mack]

14. people of color

[Akacia]

24. Thanks! nt.

[barbtries]

4. There must be a great resistance

we can't go back.

[Demsrule86]

8. We have lost all branches of government...including the courts. Do

you think the GOP cares about our resistance...our only shot to stop this was to elect Hillary Clinton...now we have to buckle up and hope that the damage that will soon be done can be fixed...and that not to many innocent people die or are jailed because the court picks Trump has in mind want to re-criminalize being gay.

[riversedge]

9. No, we have to resist in any way we are able. Buckly down and get busy and do what you can.

[Demsrule86]

18. I am doing that, but I am a realist.

We will lose much of the progress we have made. This was a very important election, and we lost.

[barbtries]

16. as my doctor gently reminded me

when i asked for a prescription of tranquilizers following the election, "don't forget that we are still a nation of laws."

i didn't respond what i thought, which was, we'll see how much those laws mean with this asshole as president.

HOWEVER. As it stands right this minute, there is still a constitution, which means we still have rights. We must, must resist the forces that would strip us of those rights.

no just buckling up and hoping...no. RESIST.

[Demsrule86]

17. Well I hope the courts with Trump majorities will protect our rights...but this

election was really important and we can and should fight but...we will lose much no matter what.

[barbtries]

19. no doubt,

but i plan to resist at every turn.

[Demsrule86]

20. I agree but forgive me if I think we should have won.

This was definitely snatching defeat from the jaws of victory kind of election.

[barbtries]

23. i KNOW we should have won.

and am not convinced that rather than the left snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, it was the republicans who stole victory from the rightful winner.

if solid evidence is never brought to life, i will still live with the doubt for the rest of my life.

as far as blame on the left, it's all valid to one degree or another, i think. i don't lay it at one place, and if i did, it would be the media.

[King_Klonopin]

5. Well, of course -- they are Republicans.

Republican = "conservative"

Conservative = maintaining (conserving) the status quo, the old way of doing things.

Maintaining the status quo = people (groups) who are in positions of power maintain their positions of power.

They will fight to keep their power. They are afraid of losing their power. They will try to sell
their entitlement for power under the guise that "it's good for the country, and it's good for YOU."
Trump campaigned on the notion that putting a rich, boorish, white, male, nationalist asshole in
the White House was good for America and for US. Enough angry people with a lust for dominance
bought it.
The people who are striving for change and who are oppressed under the status quo -- those who
seek fairness, justice, equal rights, equal opportunity, equal access, etc. -- are vilified, treated as
a threat, and denied any changes by "conservatives". Change (evolution) implies that someone will
lose his station and power... and we can't have that.

Trump won the election by appealing to a subliminal primal, racist, sexist, classist ideal and promising
to maintain this hierarchical order -- or return to it (i.e. make America great again) Now, he gets to
build/rebuild this hierarchy, starting with his cabinet.

Conservative would be more appropriately called "regressive" or "oppressive".

Let's face it, we live in an Apartheid country and an Apartheid world.

[Coolest Ranger]

7. I had someone

on this site tell me the other day that I was whining because I was freaked out about what Trump was doing. Yea when his staff is against my being gay what's going to be next? Being placed in a concentration camp or worse? Yea its bad enough being a man of color but a gay man of color who the cops can pick up at any time they want now?

[beachbum bob]

11. the best course of action is for all of us to be engaged in political action at the local level

democrats/progressives/liberal must take back state legislatures and remove the awful gerrymandering that conservatives have done over decades, we must reverse voter suppression efforts....

this all begins at home

[Coolest Ranger]

12. The one bright spot in this

Hopefully my state North Carolina may be going blue and if that's the case then life won't be so bad

[Grey Lemercier]

15. this!

I am still waiting for any DNC potential candidate to talk about this. I don't think most understand how fucking deep a hole we are in at state and local levels. That all flows up to federal level. If the Rethugs do well in the 2020 state elections the soonest we are looking at getting the US House back is probably 2032 due to extreme gerrymandering. I have forward run the 2018, 2020, and 2022 US Senate races and I see little to no chance to pull the Senate back before 2024. 2018 is shaping up for a possible 60 seat majority for the thugs. 2020 we might pull 1 or 2 back. 2022, 3 or 4, but that all rests on us not having any seats flipped on us in 2020 and 2022. Even if we net 5 or 6 seats flipped from '20 and '22 i dont rhink that will be enough to overcome the post 2018 Rethug majority.

[Behind the Aegis]

25. I hear you.

It is why I asked what I did further up the thread. The threat to the GLBT community is very fucking real. The republican platform was the most homophobic ever and yet our concerns weren't ever fucking addressed. We were simply just a name in a list of names.

I wanted to reach out when I saw your post but I was also too angry and I couldn't find a way to sound hopeful, I am just too filled with anger right now. I will say, there are those of us who know the threat is real, and we need to be ready...for anything. We need to stand up for each other.

[Coolest Ranger]

29. I want to beleive me

but then I get slapped in the face when I see certain people still trying to relive the primary and then I get discouraged again

[Ace Rothstein]

21. But he held up a rainbow flag that one time!

[Behind the Aegis]

28. I saw it.

I saw it as a sign. It was upside down which indicates "distress". Basically, I took it as the president-elect letting us know our community would soon be in distress.

[IcyPeas]

26. their goal is to Take The Country Back

back to when? the repubs never give. they just take away. they make me sick.

[pangaia]

27. It is the trump TOILET, not Cabinet.