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Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 01:21 PM Apr 2016

Trump vs. Clinton on LGBTs.


I dunno..... a lot of folks may find it hard to make a case for the DEM candidate when their respective histories are compared. ( In that circumstance: i.e. Clinton vs. Trump.) In other words.... who's really broken new ground here?

From today's NY Times.

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Elton John and his longtime boyfriend, David Furnish, entered a civil partnership on Dec. 21, 2005, in England under a law the country had just enacted granting recognition to same-sex couples. The congratulations poured in as the two men appeared at a joyous ceremony at Windsor Guildhall, amid a crush of paparazzi. Donald J. Trump, who had known the couple for years, took to his blog to express his excitement.

“I know both of them, and they get along wonderfully. It’s a marriage that’s going to work,” Mr. Trump wrote, adding: “I’m very happy for them. If two people dig each other, they dig each other.”

Mr. Trump is now the leading candidate for president in the Republican primary, which has traditionally been dominated by hopefuls eager to show how deeply conservative they are on social issues like gay rights and marriage.

But Mr. Trump is far more accepting of sexual minorities than his party’s leaders have been. On Thursday, he startled some Republicans by saying on NBC’s “Today” show that he opposed a recently passed North Carolina law that prohibits people from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to the gender they were born with, striking down a Charlotte ordinance.

Transgender people should “use the bathroom they feel is appropriate,” Mr. Trump said, putting him at odds with a majority of Republicans in North >>>>>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/us/politics/donald-trump-gay-rights.html?_r=0
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Trump vs. Clinton on LGBTs. (Original Post) Smarmie Doofus Apr 2016 OP
Bottom line: Trump gets in, he will fill the SCotUS with conservatives LostOne4Ever Apr 2016 #1

LostOne4Ever

(9,289 posts)
1. Bottom line: Trump gets in, he will fill the SCotUS with conservatives
Sun Apr 24, 2016, 02:55 AM
Apr 2016

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=#009999]and that will set back the gains that have been made years!

If Clinton[/font] (or Bernie...I won't give up on him till the convention or the man himself calls it quits!) [font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=#009999]get the nod and becomes president we will have a Liberal SCotUS for the first time in decades! Imagine all the good that can be done with 5 liberals 1 libertarian and only 3 conservatives on the court!

We have GOT to win this year. No question about it.[/font]

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