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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 10:03 PM Aug 2016

Marco Rubio To Headline Radical Anti-LGBT Event. In Orlando.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/marco-rubio-headline-radical-anti-lgbt-event

When Marco Rubio cited the deadly attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando as a reason he was changing his mind and running for re-election to the U.S. Senate, many LGBT allies immediately noted that the Florida senator and failed presidential candidate has never been an ally of the LGBT community.

“To be using the tragedy in Orlando as a time to reflect on his Senate career, when his career and his promises on the campaign trail have been anti-LGBTQ consistently, it’s just staggering to think he would be using this moment for his own personal ambitions,” said Jay Brown of the Human Rights Campaign at the time.

It comes as no surprise, then, to see that Rubio is slated to address an event in Orlando next month that will feature some of the country’s most vehement anti-LGBT activists.

The Orlando-based Liberty Counsel Action, an extreme anti-LGBT group whose affiliate is famous for representing Kentucky clerk Kim Davis in her stand against the Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision, announced in an email today that the Florida Renewal Project will be hosting an event called “Rediscovering God in America” in August. The event will be headlined by Rubio, who will speak alongside anti-LGBT activists David Barton, Bill Federer, Ken Graves and Mat Staver.


You stay classy, Little Marco.

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Marco Rubio To Headline Radical Anti-LGBT Event. In Orlando. (Original Post) KamaAina Aug 2016 OP
Any gig to pay the bills . Desperate heartless creep Person 2713 Aug 2016 #1
If these assholes had any decency, they'd cancel this. Initech Aug 2016 #2
The anti-gay hack pol uses an anti-gay massacre as an excuse to run for office again, Mc Mike Aug 2016 #3

Mc Mike

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3. The anti-gay hack pol uses an anti-gay massacre as an excuse to run for office again,
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 09:08 AM
Aug 2016

Last edited Wed Aug 3, 2016, 04:25 PM - Edit history (1)

and then campaigns, where the anti-gay massacre occurred, alongside of virulent anti-gay activists.

Doubling down. Jamming the massively contradictory cognitive-dissonance exhibition into the public's face. Acting proud about something they should be ashamed of.

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