The Religious Rights Year In Anti-LGBT Hate
By Brian Tashman | December 29, 2016 5:05 pm
It’s now been more than one year since the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling struck down state-level marriage equality bans, and the Religious Right’s many dire predictions about the ruling’s impact still haven’t come true.
But neither have predictions that Obergefell spelled the end of the anti-LGBT movement. Instead, this year, as the anti-LGBT Right’s brand of deceptive and bigoted politics became increasingly unpopular among Americans and continued to be defeated in the courts, many activists further concentrated their efforts on resisting LGBT equality abroad, while others pinned their hopes on November’s general election.
With the election of Donald Trump and a GOP-led Congress, the Religious Right hopes that it will have the chance to roll back LGBT rights after years of losing ground.
Here are some of the highlights and lowlights of the anti-gay Right’s 2016:
Trump-Pence Victory
Despite some misleading media coverage painting Trump as a gay rights ally, anti-LGBT activists scored a major victory with his election and are celebrating the fact that the president-elect has embraced their political agenda.
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