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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,201 posts)
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 03:00 PM Aug 2020

North Dakota GOP's Platform Is So Anti-LGBTQ Nobody Will Say Who Wrote It

WASHINGTON ― The North Dakota Republican Party voted this spring to approve its 2020 platform and included language calling LGBTQ people unhealthy, dangerous, manipulative to children and “voyeurs who wish to prey on members of the opposite sex.”

But in a bizarre twist, after it started getting press attention last week, the same GOP officials who voted on the homophobic language are now condemning it and saying they don’t know who wrote it or where it came from.

The anti-LGBTQ section of the platform, referred to as Resolution 31, is as offensive as it is outdated in its claims about queer people. You won’t find it on the party’s website anymore because the party pulled it down. But a reporter for The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead nabbed a copy of the platform before it disappeared.

Resolution 31 is titled “In Opposition to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Bills,” which it refers to as “SOGI bills.” Itincludes statements such as this:

“SOGI bills grant protection to voyeurs who wish to prey on members of the opposite sex.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/north-dakota-gop-s-platform-is-so-anti-lgbtq-nobody-will-say-who-wrote-it/ar-BB17seS9?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

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North Dakota GOP's Platform Is So Anti-LGBTQ Nobody Will Say Who Wrote It (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
I was on the Colorado Democratic Party platform committee CanonRay Aug 2020 #1
Codifying bigotry I_UndergroundPanther Aug 2020 #2
They didn't just say the quiet part out loud leftieNanner Aug 2020 #3

CanonRay

(14,117 posts)
1. I was on the Colorado Democratic Party platform committee
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 03:16 PM
Aug 2020

and there is always a clear paper trail to where these things originate. They just don't want to reveal it.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
2. Codifying bigotry
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 03:21 PM
Aug 2020

Into law.

I dispise republicans. I wish them to suffer.
Suffer consequences for thier blind fucking hatered.

leftieNanner

(15,150 posts)
3. They didn't just say the quiet part out loud
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 03:23 PM
Aug 2020

They Fucking WROTE IT DOWN!!

Idiots. I guess it's better to know where they stand in advance.

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