Biden: America will be a beacon of hope for LGBTQ rights again

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  1. ProgressivePatriot

    ProgressivePatriot Well-Known Member

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    It is time for a president who actually believes in human rights/ civil rights and who is some one who represents all Americans regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, national origin or whatever.

    https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/05/america-will-beacon-hope-lgbtq-rights/

    And there is this:

    https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/05...d-surprising-number-lgbtq-moments-one-stands/

    Joe is a real person. We need him to lead the nation out of the hateful quagmire that is the Trump Administration
     
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    Interesting. Trump is the first American President to enter office supporting gay marriage. Where is the hateful quagmire?
     
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    What did I say that you disagree with?
     
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    He was for it a dozen years before Spying Obama and Drunken Hillary.

    But that's not their only, or even worst, blind spot.

    TO BE FAIR, THEY AREN’T VERY BRIGHT: Trump Campaign Mocks Biden. Journalists Don’t Get the Joke.

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    Trump's campaign launched a hilarious new parody website called “Truth Over Facts.” It mocks presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden’s numerous gaffes by launching an “investigation” into their hidden meaning. The website’s title comes from Biden’s notorious declaration that, unlike Trump, “We choose unity over division. We choose science over fiction. We choose truth over facts.”
     
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    We are not stupid, Lil Mike. Nobody cares if he attends our weddings. We know exactly what kinds of judges he is appointing to the federal appellate bench, and they are NOT allies of the legal reasoning behind Obergefell.
     
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    I'm sorry to break this to you but Donald Trump is the first pro-lgbt rights President we've ever had.

    Bill Clinton enacted defense of marriage act, and he believed that marriage is between a man and a woman only. George Bush supported those things. Barack Obama in his campaign said that he believed marriage was between a man and a woman only and he did nothing to further LGBT rights. In fact I'd say be hindered them globally by being apologetic for Islam.

    Hillary Clinton was against same-sex marriage when she ran the first time.

    It doesn't seem to be a thing that Trump is concerned with it seems to be something Republicans are concerned with but then again Trump is a bit out of the ordinary for a Republican.
     
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    Brett kavanaugh? The guy that was supposed to destroy roe v Wade but upheld it?

    The problem with living by the Supreme Court is you die by the Supreme Court. If they dictate at one point that the fourteenth Amendment says same-sex marriage is constitutional they can dictate that it's not at another point.

    you don't get to have a supreme power in that you or your party always gets to pick the Supreme Court justices. just like waiting Obama got in office he started making all these executive orders and when Donald Trump got in office he started undoing them all with executive orders.
     
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    Trump has installed 51 federal judges, in his effort to dismantle Roe and any constitutional theory that lead it any credence. That will inevitably include Obergefell. I somehow doubt he will keep miscalculating a la Kavanaugh at this rate. We don't give a crap about what he says he believes or says he believed about same sex marriage equality. He will destroy gay rights given another four years.
     
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    So what? It isn't inshrined in the Constitution. Live by the judiciary die by the judiciary. if it can decide that something is constitutional it can also decide that something is not. Your party doesn't get to control all of the things all the time.
    the decision was made when Barack Obama was in office did you think he was going to be an office for life? did you think there would never be another Republican elected that would pick Supreme Court judges? The judiciary isn't a left-wing dictator it is a branch of the government and it will change.

    If he can do that they're not rights. They're temporary privileges you had while under that Supreme Court decision.

    This is why you don't use the judiciary to legislate. If Donald Trump gets another term he most likely will have another Supreme Court Justice to pick.

    when he's out maybe some other justices will resign and the next person will get to pick and round and round it goes.
     
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    Nobody cares who is doing what in the privacy of their bedrooms anymore.

    (...unless Trump is shagging porn stars, of course, then its everyones business...)

    A few crusty puritans here and there aren't going to get gays banned again. But go ahead and fearmonger away, I guess. I bet most gay folks aren't going to see the attempt to manipulate them as a compliment.
     
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    No no no. The more conservative side of things are literally Hitler and if for one second we don't absolutely believe in it we may have to accept reality.
     
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    That's likely true, since Obergefell was a train wreck of a decision. However it's possible to be in favor of gay rights and not be in favor of raping the Constitution.
     
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    Oh please! His words mean nothing. He shifts with the political wind. It is his actions that matter. Some time when I don't have anything better to do, I'll list them for you. Meanwhile you should do some research if you really think that he is pro gay. The fact is he is a spineless empty shell of a human being with no core values who will say and do whatever will benefit him at the time
     
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    Clinton was duped into the Defense of marriage act. It was supposed to be in return for an Employment Nondiscrimination Act that never happened. He also did it to head off a push for a constitutional amendment declaring that marriage was a man and a woman
     
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    At that time it would have been political suicide to support same sex marriage. I don't know what either of them believed but I don't fault them for the public position that they took. In any case, people can and do evolve on issues, so please, give credit for it if that is what happened.
     
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    I know what it is it's because he doesn't have a D next to his name.

    That's tribalism and I'm not interested.

    Point is he's the only president that has supported same-sex marriage before he entered office every other one didn't every other candidate didn't.
     
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    Sorry when he ran for office he said marriage was between a man and a woman both times. When his dumbass wife ran for office the first time she said it was between man and woman. the only reason she didn't the second time minutes because the politics had shifted.

    I'm sorry political parties in the people in them are not my friends. I know there's people out there that it put it in cat butt porque rights, through a lot of people that vote Republican that do two and they're both sides that don't.

    So I did not interested in your tribalism.
     
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    Sure people can change their opinions. Point is I never heard Donald Trump say that marriage is between a man and a woman only. I'm not just talking about his presidency the man has been relatively well known for decades.

    And I'm sorry biden isn't the glimmering hope. LGBT people have had more bites now than they ever have in this country before.

    I know Democrats really want credit for everything, but I'm sorry the turning point was decided by the judiciary. Democrats get some credit.

    Joe Biden gets nothing. Sorry. He didn't appoint justices he didn't do anything.
     
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    I repeat . He is a souless empty shell of a sub human being with no principles or core values. He will do and say anything to advance his best interest at any given time. I have trouble understanding why you can't see that and keep singing his praises as an advocate fore gay rights
     
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    Oh good god! How many more times are you going to regurgitate that line? Why can't you see him for what he s? He is not your friend. He does not give a rats hinds parts about you.
     
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    That's nice.

    Because I'm not a Democrat. And I don't care about who he is it doesn't matter to me.

    President's aren't my father.

    I never praised him as a gay rights advocate. I simply pointed out the fact that he's the only president that never said something against same sex marraige

    I'm sorry people don't all agree with you.
     
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    Until it's no longer true
    I do. He's the president. If you want me to see him as some boogeyman I'm not going to. That's not what he is.

    Nether are any other politicians.
    neither does anybody else.
     
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