Does Trump's victory in the Presidental election worry you as an LGBT individua?
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Holy crap… Some of you guys are seriously brainwashed by the media.
#7 The Republican party is not against gay people. They completely moved off of the marriage equality issue prior to last election cycle. There are GLB Republicans and much of the recent political turmoil has revolved around transgender people and I feel bad for them. Honestly I don't think politicians know how to respond to that issue.
Perhaps you should actually read the Republican Party Platform from their own web site before you make such ill-informed statements. Check out section 6 titled "Great American Families, Education, Healthcare, and Criminal Justice" and you'll find they explicitly want to redefine legal marriage to "one man one woman" excluding ALL same sex marriages.
Before you try to tell us these bigots are not bad guys, take a few minutes and read their own words.
Thanks for playing ill-informed statements game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges
It's your constitution right now, they're not going to touch it. It doesn't matter what their platform says. 60% of their supporters are against it and that's why it says it. Even if they replaced Scalia with an anti marriage equality supreme court justice, that doesn't matter, since he dissented. Be concerned if one the majority judges dies and get replaced with an anti equality judge.
Unless you think Trump is going to start assassinating them or something insane …
Obama appointed 2 justices in his first term…do you think Ginsburg will live forever?
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All my gay friends are very concerned and afraid of this new administration. I know several couples who are married and worry, once the new SCOTUS is appointed, a ruling could come down which would affect their marriage. The country just took 2 steps backwards in equality.
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BLM came about as a result of police brutality and unlawful/unjustified killings, that were particularly inflicted upon the black community.
It has no basis with Obama or Clinton and you know that! Stop peddling lies.
Actually, you are the one peddling lies. The entire BLM movement is predicated on false narratives. 1) Trayvon Martin was found to be the aggressor against George Zimmerman and that is what caused his death. 2) Mike Brown and the whole "hands up, don't shoot" was a LIE! Proven by not only eyewitnesses but by the forensics.
Over 100 FBI agents investigated the Michael Brown case and found that it was a 100% justifiable shooting. From memory, the final report has 22,000 pages of evidence.
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not really worried about Trump. The VP is concerning, though.
I am more worried about Muslim extremists, I mean they would rather kill you than look at you, but keep worrying about that sky falling.
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All my gay friends are very concerned and afraid of this new administration. I know several couples who are married and worry, once the new SCOTUS is appointed, a ruling could come down which would affect their marriage. The country just took 2 steps backwards in equality.
My husband has been in business with Trump for 20 years, and used to be a big donor for HRC and the DNC. I can tell you with 100% certainty– gay people have NOTHING to worry about regarding Donald J. Trump.
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Oh, I'm sure he'll let Mike Pence do the anti-LGBT stuff while he stands back and watches. There are none so easy to fool as those who want to believe I guess.
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Oh, I'm sure he'll let Mike Pence do the anti-LGBT stuff while he stands back and watches. There are none so easy to fool as those who want to believe I guess.
The Democrats figured this out decades ago, and with the MSM have cultivated a population that has lost critical thinking skills.
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Trump himself doesn't seem overly anti-LGBT, but he sure surrounds himself with homophobes. I have very little confidence in the coming administration…
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Trump and his 'friends' don't scare me but the people who voted for him do.
The attitude now is, If I don't like if F%^k off.
That scares me.
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BLM came about as a result of police brutality and unlawful/unjustified killings, that were particularly inflicted upon the black community.
It has no basis with Obama or Clinton and you know that! Stop peddling lies.
Actually, you are the one peddling lies. The entire BLM movement is predicated on false narratives. 1) Trayvon Martin was found to be the aggressor against George Zimmerman and that is what caused his death. 2) Mike Brown and the whole "hands up, don't shoot" was a LIE! Proven by not only eyewitnesses but by the forensics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK8XzRKOem8 you're all idiots if you're scared in the slightest
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Some of you people need to stop believing the ultra liberal lies!!!!!!
MARRIAGE EQUALITY IS PART OF US CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. IT WOULD TAKE A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO CHANGE THAT.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS ARE EXTREMELY HARD TO PASS AND THE PROCESS TAKES YEARS.
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Some of you people need to stop believing the ultra liberal lies!!!!!!
MARRIAGE EQUALITY IS PART OF US CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. IT WOULD TAKE A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO CHANGE THAT.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS ARE EXTREMELY HARD TO PASS AND THE PROCESS TAKES YEARS.
Dude, no it wouldn't. All it would take is a sympathetic supreme court. And any supreme court that was willing to overturn Roe v. Wade (which Trump has promised) is willing to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges).
I wouldn't try to lecture people on Constitutional Law when don't seem to be aware of what it is in the first place.
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I'm not American but as trump is the president in the US now, I don't want to go there again.
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No, it doesn't worry me. For one, Trump isn't anti-gay. I know, I know. Look up his past. Second of all, look at all the money we aren't paying in taxes
Get socialism out of the country. Let's hope for a fiscally responsible America. -
I guess that's it then. Even after gay marriages have been invalidated and outlawed, minorities and immigrants fear for their lives and Trump supporters run roughshod over all opposition there will still be some of us saying "but he's not anti-gay!"
I hope those of us taking taking this stance are the first ones to be victimized. Sorry if that makes me seem like a dick, but at least I have LOTS of competition in this thread. -
No, it doesn't worry me. For one, Trump isn't anti-gay. I know, I know. Look up his past. Second of all, look at all the money we aren't paying in taxes
Get socialism out of the country. Let's hope for a fiscally responsible America.Trump might not directly be anti-gay but he's appointing super-conservative people to his staff that most certainly are anti-gay.
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Some of you people need to stop believing the ultra liberal lies!!!!!!
MARRIAGE EQUALITY IS PART OF US CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. IT WOULD TAKE A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO CHANGE THAT.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS ARE EXTREMELY HARD TO PASS AND THE PROCESS TAKES YEARS.
Dude, no it wouldn't. All it would take is a sympathetic supreme court. And any supreme court that was willing to overturn Roe v. Wade (which Trump has promised) is willing to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges).
I wouldn't try to lecture people on Constitutional Law when don't seem to be aware of what it is in the first place.
The USSC rarely reverses it's decision and it's never done it to strip a group of their rights. And as with all supreme court cases, it takes years to wind their way through the courts and by then too much time would have passed.
You are getting hysterical over something that has worse odds than winning the lottery.
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I'm not American but as trump is the president in the US now, I don't want to go there again.
After having visited and vacationed in over 30 countries all around this globe, and having been to all 50 states in this United States, I can tell you there is nowhere on earth I would rather live. Hysterical overreaction to Trump is unfounded. That having been said; I think our economy will survive just fine without your money. ;D
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The USSC rarely reverses it's decision and it's never done it to strip a group of their rights. And as with all supreme court cases, it takes years to wind their way through the courts and by then too much time would have passed.
You are getting hysterical over something that has worse odds than winning the lottery.
Your entire argument is idiotic on its face. Trump has outright stated that overturning Roe v. Wade is a litmus test for his judicial nominations. So yeah, his whole goal is to overturn a supreme court decision that would strip rights from millions of people.
The fact that it would take years is why it will likely happen. RBG, Kennedy, and Breyer aren't all going to stick around waiting for a more ideologically friendly president and senate to replace them.
And, let's not forget that Supreme Court can rip apart state level ENDAs. Also let's not forget what an SC can do with RFRA in its back pocket.
We had a chance to secure decades of progress, but instead we now have a tin hat dictator surrounded by anti-gays.
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Your entire argument is idiotic on its face. Trump has outright stated that overturning Roe v. Wade is a litmus test for his judicial nominations. So yeah, his whole goal is to overturn a supreme court decision that would strip rights from millions of people.
The fact that it would take years is why it will likely happen. RBG, Kennedy, and Breyer aren't all going to stick around waiting for a more ideologically friendly president and senate to replace them.
And, let's not forget that Supreme Court can rip apart state level ENDAs. Also let's not forget what an SC can do with RFRA in its back pocket.
We had a chance to secure decades of progress, but instead we now have a tin hat dictator surrounded by anti-gays.
I'm the last person that would ever defend Trump, but he is the epitome of "Watch what I do, not what I say." Yes, he is surrounding himself with some unsavory people, but let one of them get caught up in something like Bridgegate and see what happens to them. Just ask Chris Christie. Giuliani may be sunk now with the reports coming out about all the foreign money he took as a foreign affairs consultant for many foreign governments. What did Trump do with Paul Manafort when that happened? He was let go. Trump has to "Drain the swamp" after all, and he can't appoint someone guilty of doing the same thing he accused HRC of as Secretary of State. I think Trump is already reeling from beginning to really understand what he's gotten himself in to.
This won't be like the RNC convention where he can put down revolting delegates (with Reince's help). He needs them to get his legislation through unless he pulls a Boehner and lets the Dems vote everything through for him. Similarly, if Repubs go crazy and try to enact legislation that he is not in favor of, I could totally see Trump VETOING Republican legislation since he's more aligned with Dems on many issues anyway. No one's going to do anything that he doesn't want - he showed Pence just that when Pence stepped out of line and told everyone that the Trump-Pence campaign would categorically accept the results of the election. Donald went out of his way to never say that. He did the same during the debates when he threw Pence under the bus for saying the campaign backed using military force to overthrow Assad. He said. "We haven't talked, and I don't agree." Repubs don't get it yet, but this isn't going to be the easy ride they think they're in for. Trump is not a Republican at heart.
Neither Dems or Repubs are really liking the names being floated for several key positions in his Cabinet. Honestly, if he's having this much
trouble during the transition stage with simple staffing, he's going to be in for a long 4 years. Every single thing is going to be a battle, with the exception of tax cuts. That's about the ONLY thing Trump and Republicans really agree on.Lastly, while Trump will appoint at least one SC justice, we should wait and see if he actually follows through on his supposed SC list. I think that list was just pandering honestly, but that's just me. We will know what his intentions are soon enough. But, with the pushback he's getting from both sides on Cabinet positions, I think he realizes he can't go full tilt either way on anything.
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