Trump’s transition team is led by Vice President-elect Mike Pence — the
Indiana governor with a history of antigay positions and actions. Family Research Council's Tony helped write the GOP platform considered among the most anti-LGBT GOP platforms in history (and which promotes so-called “reparative therapy”). Ken Blackwell, former Ohio secretary of state and FRC senior fellow, was
named domestic policy chair of the Trump transition team. Blackwell has
compared homosexuality to arson and kleptomania. Trump named as his education secretary nominee Michigan billionaire
Betsy DeVos, whose family’s foundation has given millions of dollars to
groups working against LGBT equality. Trump’s choice for health and human services secretary is Georgia GOP
congressman,
Tom Price, who voted to ban marriage equality in the US
Constitution. Trump’s choice for attorney general is staunchly anti-LGBT Alabama US
senator Jeff Sessions, who has consistently had a score of zero from the
Human Rights Campaign.South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, chosen as ambassador to the UN, has
spoken out strongly against marriage equality. Kansas congressman Mike
Pompeo, named by Trump as his CIA director nominee, supported a bill
allowing the federal definition of marriage to be superseded by a state
definition. And Trump’s choice of chief of staff, Republican National
Committee chairman Reince Priebus, oversaw the anti-LGBT platform
hammered out at the 2016 party convention.
Are all those people who voted for Trump really that hateful? Or were they so clueless that they ignored Trump/Pence stands on so many hierarchies, including sexual orientation. What will they think when the policies of Trump and Pence start to affect them?
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