Four Ways Donald Trump Would Roll Back LGBT Equality as President
FFS, he would dig all of this up again to work to destroy millions of lives. The guy is a monster.
http://www.hrc.org/blog/four-ways-donald-trump-would-roll-back-lgbt-equality-as-president
1) Trump Has Promised to Roll Back Nationwide Marriage Equality
Donald Trump has long opposed nationwide marriage equality, calling himself a “traditional” guy, even waffling on whether he supports civil unions. Heading into the South Carolina Primary, Trump tripled down on his opposition to nationwide marriage equality.
2) Trump to Sign a Law Sanctioning Kim Davis-Style Discrimination
Donald Trump supports the so-called “First Amendment Defense Act,” (FADA), a bill to enable Kim Davis-style discrimination against LGBT people nationwide. FADA would undermine the rule of law and promote taxpayer-funded discrimination against same-sex couples. In a letter to the far-right organization the American Principles Project, Trump wrote in December, “If Congress considers the First Amendment Defense Act a priority, then I will do all I can to make sure it comes to my desk for signatures and enactment.”
This is not the first time that Donald Trump has vowed to support sham religious refusal bills designed to enable discrimination against LGBT people. In a March debate, Trump said he agreed with Cruz’s answer on religious liberty and agreed that when it comes to opposing nationwide marriage equality and the right of same-sex couples to adopt,“I would certainly have rather left it to the states.”
3) Trump Opposes HB2 in Theory; but Would Let it Continue in Practice. #NotLeadership.
In one spectacular display of Trump’s brazen efforts to ‘have it both ways,’ he made nearly simultaneous statements speaking out of both sides of his mouth. Almost immediately after Trump appeared on NBC and pledged his opposition to HB2, noting how unnecessary and damaging it has been to the state of North Carolina -- he went on FOX later the very same day to assure conservatives he would do nothing to address it as president.
In an interview with the Today Show in April, Donald Trump opposed North Carolina’s HB 2 -- saying:
“North Carolina, what they're going through, with all of the business that's leaving and all of the strife — and that's on both sides — you leave it the way it is. There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. There has been so little trouble. And the problem with what happened in North Carolina is the strife and the economic, I mean, the economic punishment that they're taking. So I would say that's probably the best way.
Later that day, Trump told Sean Hannity on FOX News that 'he would leave it up to states' and do nothing to intervene as president. Essentially, he’s suggesting that if a state wants to go through with a law that harms the state, he would allow it, an attempt to have it both ways.
One federal court has already ruled that a school district policy similar to HB 2 is not constitutional. Just this week, Secretary of Education John, B. King called for the repeal of HB 2 saying that gender identity should be protected from discrimination. As far as Trump is concerned, however, states should be free to violate federal laws -- such as Title IX -- and deny basic rights to their people.
4) Trump Would Repeal President Obama’s Executive Orders
Trump says he looks forward to repealing President Obama’s executive orders, meaning the executive order protecting LGBT employees working for federal contractors is at risk. That means under a Trump White House, a company doing business with the government and receiving taxpayer dollars could say “you’re fired” to LGBT employees just because of who they are. And if there’s any doubt as to urgency with which Trump would approach this, the Washington Post reports, “If he's elected president, Trump said that within an hour of taking the oath of office -- but possibly within two minutes -- he would undo many of Obama's executive orders.”
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