Posted on 03/21/2019 3:44:14 PM PDT by reaganaut1
For the first time since the dramatic change in public opinion around gay rights, Democratic presidential candidates will be invited to participate in a forum focused exclusively on LGBT policies.
The event is scheduled for Oct. 10, the eve of National Coming Out Day. Hosted by the Human Rights Campaign and the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, the 2020 candidates will discuss topics related to hate crimes, bullying and transgender rights.
The HRC Foundation held presidential forums for Democratic primary candidates in 2004 and 2008. In 2012 and 2016, it did not hold one for the large Republican primary fields.
Since that 2008 forum, public attitudes and laws have moved rapidly in favor of LGBT people. That year, 55 percent of Americans believed gay and lesbian relations between consenting adults should be legal, according to Gallup polling. By May 2018, that opinion had risen to 75 percent.
In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama supported civil unions between same-sex couples, but not marriage — a position he said he “evolved” on over his presidency.
Since 2013, the first openly bisexual woman and the first openly gay man and woman of color have been elected to Congress.
In the past decade, same-sex marriage has become federally enforced, attacks against someone based on sexual orientation or gender identity have been added to the list of federal hate crimes, and the law banning LGBT Americans from serving openly in the military has been repealed.
President Trump has supported policies that have undermined LGBT rights such as his ban on transgender people serving in the military and his nomination of judges hostile to some legal protections.
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I’m a big fan of LGBT rights. Perverts and the mentally ill have the same rights as all other Americans to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion. Those people have the same nearly unlimited right as normal people to keep and bear arms. They have the whole list in the Bill of Rights already, but we need to protect those basic, God-given human rights far better, both for LGBTQIDIOTs and for normal people. That’s why I refuse to vote for the totalitarian socialists who have co-opted the Democrat Party.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots are reminded that the only sex-related right that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect deals only with voting rights, evidenced by the 19th Amendment.
19th Amendment:
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation [emphasis added]."
In other words, the feds have the constitutional authority to deal with sex-related issues ONLY in the context of voting rights problems.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Otherwise, Democratic and patriot candidates for federal office need to limit debate discussions concerning domestic policy mainly to:
Surrendering state powers that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds have stolen from the states back to the states.
The feds stopping misguided, activist states from abridging constitutionally enumerated rights.
Major constitutional problems with state winner-take-all laws for electoral votes because they violate the 12th Amendment.
States that violate the Constitution's "Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause" (1.8.4) and Section 2 of the 14th Amendment by allowing illegal aliens to vote to try to swing election races in favor of Democrats.
Illegal alien border emergency caused by the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress.
US Mail Service (1.8.7).
Others?
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA!
Trump should hire actual clown cars to circle the venue during the event.
This is a wonderful idea. A prime-time slot would be perfect, to ensure that the maximum number of Americans are enlightened by their discourse.
I have manic depression. A lot of good people have condition of the mind they can barely control. I work with many such people. Not one of them is a sexual deviant or at least blames sexual deviancy on any disease.
Homosexuality is a voluntary behavior. It is chosen. It’s not “something I can’t help”. It’s the furthest thing from a physical or mental condition.
It is a sickness of the soul. And the mind can not touch the soul. It’s their own choice if they want to remain sick.
I might watch it for the entertainment value...😀
I have no idea what there is left to debate? Other than the “T” part
My moneys on Beto.
Professing to be wise, they became fools,...they are altogether stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion....THE LORD KNOWS THE REASONINGS of the wise, THAT THEY ARE USELESS. Romans 1:22 Jeremiah 10:81 Corinthians 3:20
Our society lends itself to deviant behavior regardless if or not a condition of the mind or soul.
Genesis 6:5 tells us what was going on in the days of Noah. “God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that ‘every imagination’ of the ‘thoughts of his heart’ was only evil continually.”
I would say that the world right now is very much like it was in the days of Noah. People sitting at that debate do not realize how ripe their world is for judgment.
Agreed.
The issue is they are all pervs
Worry about the 2% of America that are headed for hell along with the Democratic party. Just goes to show you what they are made of.
It is not a foregone conclusion that all Democrats will pander equally.
Worry about the 2% of America ...2% may well be an accurate figure for the proportion of actual sodomites (and much less than that for trannies).
But the pandering is to all those who have a certain ideology, which is more than half the population in some states.
This just in...
They democratic candidates will do the debate in the nude, with large goat heads on.
Also, there will be a prayer to satan asking for his guidance and a sacrifice of two third trimester boys and girls.... before the debate begins.
Tune in.
America 2019
Post armed guards in all the bathrooms.
They’re completely ignoring the plight of foot fetishists and necrophiles!
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