Donald Trump’s More Accepting Views on Gay Issues Set Him Apart in G.O.P.

New York Times ^ | April 22, 2016 | MAGGIE HABERMAN

[Ransomed]

What I don’t get about the men who claim to be women using the women’s bathroom is that at least some of these guys still like women. Bruce Jenner still likes women, the example he actually was given.

I have yet to speak to a blue collar dem that wasn’t horrified with the leadership on this issue, same as the Muslim immigration thing. Almost seems like a lost opportunity for him, give all the right folks another chance to scream that he is Hitler, sweep up the votes from the folks who know this is common sense.

Freegards

[afsnco]

Ah, but he’s pretty much indistinguishable from the evil pantsuited hag on all moral issues, the only issues I care about. They’re also the only issues God cares about, and I’ll have to answer to God someday. So I’ll vote Constitution Party, again, if he’s the nominee.

[Haiku Guy]

Pivot.

[Night Hides Not]

The good guys are too few and if they haven’t yet, WHEN? The time will come when they’ll consider themselves fortunate if they are allowed to leave.

Atlas Shrugged is now nonfiction.

[pollywog]

excellent EXCELLENT post Justlittleoleme !!!!
God’s Word says it best of all !!

[Night Hides Not]

If the law, as wrong as it is, says transgender people can use the toilet or urinal of their choice, we can argue all we want but we must follow the law.

I'll check back for your reaction when Directive 10-289 is implemented by The Donald or Hillary. New York values will rule this country for the next four years. I'll be going Galt.

[Jane Long]

I totally agree that this is a leftist issue and conservative politicians should not get sucked up into it. Because however they respond will be used against them to so them as being “intolerant” and what not.

Unfortunately this is an emotionally charged issue for conservatives and so we are falling into the trap.

I agree with Trump’s response the most. Just keep it the way it is and enforce the laws that are on the books.

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BTTT!! Agree!

[Religion and Politics]

Build the wall...

[GeaugaRepublican]

Gee. Social Conservative issues, must be and election year.

This is the portion of the program when the Democrats start writing articles and asking questions to peel the economic conservatives and social conservatives apart to split the Republican electorate.

I am not voting on ANY SOCIAL ISSUES.

Does not win us the White House, ever! The only thing that can change “Social Issues’ is appointing SCOTUS judges.

Trump has named two he would put forth already.

Can’t appoint judges until we win the White House.

Of course we got Justice Roberts in there.... remember Cruz wrote and Op Ed in support.

[NorthMountain]

I hate perversion, but where could a transgender use the bathroom?

That's their problem. Not mine.

[Starstruck]

People are saying that Trump is going left for the General election. I say he veered right for the Primaries and now is heading back to his natural position. I think there is going to be more and more of this stuff as we go along.

[GeaugaRepublican]

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[BlackElk]

Trump's response is nothing but libertoonian giveashitism the yellow brick road to officially approved degeneracy.

The law on the books in North Carolina and Mississippi at least is that no local ordinance may be passed "legalizing" the concept of the little girls' room as Vacationland for Pervs. Enforce THAT and have it spread to every other state.

If the Wierdo American community of "transgenders" and "transsexuals" and other folks who seem not to have a clue as to what and who goes where don't like it, we don't have an Iron Curtain to keep them in. Sodom and Gomorrah have been unoccupied for some substantial time now and hold sentimental value for them. They can move there and rebuild until the angels come again.

[BlackElk]

Nah! Trump is a disgrace but Moral Monster Mitt Romney (M3R) is, by far, the worst in show in the entire history of the GOP.

[ek_hornbeck]

But he should be asked if still supports amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation. Homosexuals are already using the legal system to silence people who disapprove of their lifestyle, and making them a protected class would just worsen the problem.

The Civil Rights Act is problematic no matter who it applies to. It violates people's Constitutional right to freedom of association, and any group under its umbrella becomes a protected class of people who can silence the political opposition into submission (as we've seen "minority" activists do over and over again). The problem is, I don't think any Presidential candidate since Barry Goldwater has had the courage to oppose the Civil Rights Act on these grounds.

[fwdude]

His views set him apart from conservatism, is more the fact.

[Trumpinator]

Now we are reduced to arguing about “grown men peeing next to little girls” which of course is an absurdity. I’ve lived in California, Boston and I now work in New York City. All liberal cesspools. But I’ve never seen or heard of any incidents. People go into public bathrooms, do their business and get out. All this hysteria is much ado about nothing. It’s like when helicopter parents keep their children sheltered and away from playgrounds because they are afraid some 57 year old pervert is sitting on a park bench with a sack of Tootsie rolls to lure them away, It’s all emotional hysteria.

I wrote almost the exact same thing yesterday!

I wrote: You have a greater chance of being killed by an illegal alien than seeing a trans person in a public restroom. You have a greater chance your job is outsourced than seeing a trans person in a bathroom. I live in NYC - in Manhattan no less - and I have never seen one in a public bathroom.

Cruz is making a mistake in using this to run to the right of Donald in the hopes it peels off the remaining Evangelicals or some such from Trump. But this is the time to pivot towards the center for the main event. Social conservatives have to realize these pet issues that rile up the base like a red flag don't tend to play well in the general election. Leaving this issue behind is a sacrifice play to concentrate on the more important and relevant issues of illegals/border, unfair trade and Islam.

[GSWarrior]

Yet the gays still hate him.

[BlackElk]

Because we failed to INSIST on Scott Walker, who had too much class to stick around for the 2016 GOP poo slinging contest.

[kjam22]

I do give Trump credit though. He was spot on when he said that he could commit murder on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single vote. There is nothing that he can do or say to cause his supporters to stop and actually think about who and what he is.

No doubt....