Trump surrogate defends anti-LGBT GOP platform: It ‘isn’t hostile’ like gay nightclub massacre

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory

DAVID EDWARDS
14 JUL 2016 AT 10:09 ET

CNN contributor Jeffrey Lord argued Thursday that Donald Trump’s support of the Republican Party platform was not as “hostile” to the LGBT community as last month’s massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando.

“Trump has said he’s going to be a better friend to the gay community,” CNN host Ana Cabrera reminded Lord, noting that the Republican Party platform “opposes same-sex marriage rights, backs efforts to restrict bathroom rights to birth gender, supports parents right to choose so-called sexual conversion therapy for minors and currently protects businesses who refuse services to gays and lesbians based on religious beliefs.”

“Does this fly with Donald Trump?” she wondered.

“Well, sure,” Lord insisted. “I think Donald Trump is very much a traditional guy. I mean, he’s got his positions on this staked out. This doesn’t mean hostility,” the Trump surrogate added. “There’s a difference between saying that you want bathrooms to be men and women — and that sort of thing — and being hostile here. He continued: “I mean, heavens, we just had this terrible, terrible situation in Orlando where somebody who was devoted to radical Islam, which is quite hostile — I mean, seriously hostile to gays — went in and murdered 49 people in cold blood. I mean, we do have to have a sense of proportion here.”

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[Mendocino]

1. So reading between the lines

"You're lucky we aren't openly calling for the murder of LGBT in our party platform, but watch your back"

Or am I being hyperbolic?

[niyad]

8. no, I think you are being quite accurate.

[Rex]

12. Yep, that is it right there. They don't want to kill gay people outright.

They want to take them out back behind the barn and shoot them.

[Crash2Parties]

16. Or just make all LGBT people simply disappear, one way or another...

[Eugene]

2. sense of proportion?

That's a mighty low standard.

Gays should love Trump because he won't shoot them?
I suppose us black folks should love him too because
he doesn't openly support Dylann Roof.

Really?

[sarae]

4. That's pretty much what I'm getting from this.

How merciful of them; I guess we should be thankful that they don't want to outright execute gay people and minorities.

[JudyM]

15. Actually they are quite proud of how "tolerant" they are. Moral superiority and all.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. When the only person you can cite as being more homopbhic than you are is a mass

murderer this is a very serious red flag.

[Chemisse]

5. But anything short of murder is A-OK in Trump's mind. n/t

[niyad]

9. not just murder, but MASS murder. maybe one or ten or twenty is okay with him

and that whole sickening, hate-filled crew.

[Chemisse]

10. Right, but not 49 or 50 - no way!

Trump has his standards.

[christx30]

6. "So we're not going to slaughter you right and left,

we'll just treat you like second class citizens."
Does that pretty much cover it?

[Solly Mack]

7. Not as bad is still bad.Incrementally hostile. Not calling for murder, just abuse and discrimination

Not calling for death, merely the abrogation of rights and anysense of being as a person and a full citizen.

Not killing people (even though many on the right have called for just that) - yet encouraging laws and social norms that make life unbearable isn't a far cry from murder.

To believe that living under oppression, abuse, and the ever constant fear of attack or death at the hands of bigots, isn't hostile is insane.

[wheniwasincongress]

11. Their thinking

if you're not speaking for the killing of gays, you're not homophobic at all

If you're not advocating the slavery and killing of black people, you can't possibly be racist

If you have a wife and a daughter, you don't have women problems.

everything is so black and white to them. I have daughters, I have a black friend, my cousin is gay...

[Rex]

13. Republicans are the dumbest fuckers on the planet!

They worry about all these other groups destroying civilization, all the while they ARE DESTROYING CIVILIZATION!

HELLO??

[0rganism]

14. so... less hostile than mass murder. Really?

[Nihil]

17. "saying that you want bathrooms to be men and women"

One day the GOP is going to find a half-way competent speaker ... I think the
last one was Bush I ...