Anti-LGBT Demagogues Clueless About Own Roles In Anti-LGBT Violence

After Saturday’s horrific mass shooting at an Orlando, Florida gay bar left 50 dead, an array of prominent Republican politicians rushed to condemn the attacks. However, they spun the massacre not as an anti-LGBT hate crime but as an example of terrorism inspired by “radical Islamic” ideology — and ignored the threat their own political ideology poses to the LGBT community.

Last November, for example, anti-LGBT pastor Kevin Swanson convened a “National Religious Liberties Conference” and reiterated his longstanding belief that both the Old and New Testaments mandate that homosexuals be put to death. Present at the event were anti-LGBT stalwarts and then-Republican presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz. Though Cruz’s campaign would months later called his attendance “a mistake,” his harsh anti-LGBT rhetoric continued as he criticized “New York values” like LGBT equality.,,,
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