Trump’s VP Pick Caught In Bigoted Tirade, Demands NO Gay Journalists

[KamaAina]

http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/09/02/trumps-vp-pick-caught-in-bigoted-tirade-demands-no-gay-journalists-details/

Donald Trump may insist that “the gays” love and agree with everything he says, but he cannot deny that his running mate’s conservative views and extreme anti-LGBTQ background are shockingly homophobic and hateful.

In a right-wing think tank journal entitled Indiana Policy Review, for which Mike Pence was both the president and a contributor for several years in the 90s, some of Pence’s more extreme views are written for voters to see. One such article from December of 1993 entitled “The Pink Newsroom” is especially terrifying. In it, Pence argues that LGBTQ folks shouldn’t be allowed to work as journalists without being forced to identify themselves as gay publicly, since their LGBTQ status would surely create a conflict of interest when writing about politics.

Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention in which he promised “to protect LGBTQ citizens” means little in the face of choosing a man to be a heartbeat away from the presidency who once wrote things like this:
‘As we understand the nature of both the political and scientific debate, the demand is that gaydom be elevated from a pathological condition or mere sexual preference to the status of one of the several natural human divergences like hair or skin color.’

In case anyone missed it, Mike Pence wrote that being gay is a “pathological condition,” or a mental illness. Did Donald Trump really believe “the gays” would be okay with that?

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[keithbvadu2]

1. "forced to identify themselves as gay publicly"

Surely he would insist on the same for his fellow republicans as leadership by example.

Dennis Hastert
Larry Craig
Ed Schrock
Mark Foley

It's not like it's a rare event for republicans to be LGBTQ.

A preview of Diaper Dave Vitter would have been interesting.

It's not like morals are important to republicans.

Appalachian Trail hiker Mark Sanford got himself elected even after being outed as
an adulterer.

[Botany]

14. How about Jeff Gannon?

Can you think of the shit storm we would have had if a gay male prostitute was
spending nights in the White House as he pretended to be a reporter?

[keithbvadu2]

15. OUCH! Pence would have loved him.

Probably not as much as Bush, though.

[Botany]

16. As a dumb ass old straight white dude one thing that I have learned and that is ...

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.... the more somebody complains about those nasty nasty hot sweaty gay men and
all those dirty dirty things that they do the more I tend to think that they are either
gay or really tempted by "the gays."


But I love that Trump picked Pence because Trump already has lost the black, hispanic,
and female vote and so by picking Pence the GLBT vote is gone too.

[GWC58]

4. And yet

they come off as loyal homophobes😳

[Initech]

8. Sounds like an achievement in a video game. "You have achieved Level 5 Gaydom!"

[TipTok]

11. I was thinking up and to the left of Mordor...

[awoke_in_2003]

17. One does not simply

sashay into Gaydom.

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[NuclearDem]

18. "Gayoden king stands alone..."

[TipTok]

19. ... but he looks fabulous while doing it.

[smirkymonkey]

13. *snort*

[sheshe2]

3. Fuck Pence!

[Blue Dalek]

12. Yes, Fuck Pence!

[duncang]

5. Dipshit even had Mark Foley at a rally

And pointed out they knew everyone who got seats behind him speaking.

[gratuitous]

6. Fair game, Mike

Whaddya got to say for yourself?

[sarcasmo]

7. Domme, yes please. What the hell is Gaydom?

[Monk06]

9. Gay journalists could wear id patches Like this one

[Behind the Aegis]

10. Yeah, but this isn't a big problem with many people.

Despite many gains by my people, this type of bigotry is still very acceptable on the right, and passable with even a few on the left. It does show how engrained bigotry is in the Trump campaign and how little the rights of minority Americans are of no consequence to them.

[JI7]

20. i think you are supposed to be grateful they don't want to kill you for being gay

that was meant to be kind of sarcastic.

but thinking about it a little more this really is how they feel. the way trump thought it was just so great that the audience applauded when he criticized muslims for killing people for being gay. how gays should just be so happy that someone doesn't think it's ok to kill them.

[DemocraticWing]

21. Will Pence make us wear pink triangles like the Nazis did?

Honestly I'm even more scared of Pence than Trump. He distills all of The Donald's hatred into targeted fury at LGBTQ people. There's no telling what he would do if he had power.