Orlando Massacre Comes After Lawmakers in U.S. Filed More Than 200 Anti-LGBT Bills

[L. Coyote]

Orlando Massacre Comes After Lawmakers in U.S. Filed More Than 200 Anti-LGBT Bills

ACLU staff attorney Chase Strangio wrote: "The Christian Right has introduced 200 anti-LGBT bills in the last six months and people blaming Islam for this. No." ........
Guests
Hannah Willard, policy and outreach coordinator for Equality Florida.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to go back to Hannah Willard for a moment, who is with us from Orlando. She is with Equality Florida, a statewide advocacy organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights. Hannah, what are you calling for now?

HANNAH WILLARD: Well, we are calling for a myriad of next steps. ... you know, the best tangible next step that folks can take is to teach our children to treat each other with dignity and respect, to treat those whom they don’t understand with empathy and compassion. That’s how we build a Florida where every single child growing up knows that they are celebrated and valued for exactly who they are, no matter who they love. And that’s the Florida that I want to see.

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[Travis_0004]

1. It appears as if the shooter was gay

So anti gay bills made a gay man shoot up a gay club?

[L. Coyote]

2. No, U.S. Lawmakers Filed More Than 200 Anti-LGBT Bills

Why twist it?

[yeoman6987]

6. So law makers are to blame. Wow.

[jberryhill]

7. Where has anyone said that?

Please quote anything blaming those homophobic lawmakers for this shooting.

[yeoman6987]

8. So what is the point?

Lawmakers didn't pass a bill so killer went off?

[jberryhill]

9. The point is the monumental hypocrisy

"We will not tolerate this kind of violent attack against people we hate."

[yeoman6987]

10. I don't know why I missed that. Sorry.

Too emotional tonight. Have a good night.

[jberryhill]

12. Ted Cruz literally shared a stage with a "kill the gays" preacher

...and you can bet he is "horrified by this tragic attack".

[yeoman6987]

19. I hate him more then trump...I know hard to believe.

[L. Coyote]

16. Direct anger at lawmakers who introduce the bills, not at the mental health issues of one guy, and

try to understand how society and the way we relate to others impacts mental health. Are gays supposed to not be affected by lawmakers introducing hundreds of bills of law against them? Try to look a bit deeper into the complexity of things.

[prayin4rain]

3. Wow. What a rude comment.

You don't see how our lawmakers stirring up hate against a group of people is relevant to a horrific hate crime against those same people? ?

[Glorfindel]

4. Really? A twice-married heterosexual father is "gay?"

Honestly, there is no crime so horrific that it can't be made worse by insinuating that the perpetrator is gay. Hitler, for example, sent hundreds of thousands of gay men to their deaths because (of course) he was gay.

[Xipe Totec]

5. That's a pretty repulsive statement. nt

[JudyM]

11. Thank you for posting this, L. Coyote. Important to see how we keep promoting homophobia.

[L. Coyote]

13. DemocracyNOW needs to be on in every American home for one year.

Just to begin the deprogramming.

[JudyM]

15. Imagine how far that would advance us!

[justiceischeap]

14. I've been posting this little tidbit every chance I get

and folks, for the most part, have just glossed right over it.

[Behind the Aegis]

17. Because they want to ignore the elephant in the room.

See, to some, the massacre is the only real homophobia GLBT face, everything else is just piddlin' stuff, not anything to get one's dander up about...just wait...this isn't the right time...but you can marry, so why are you complaining...any others you'd like to add? And, hell, that is shit I have heard from the left, if we started using examples from the right we'd have a novel that would make Homer say, "Shit that's too long!"

[L. Coyote]

18. “Not surprisingly, ... a weapon designed to kill lots of people kills lots of people."

“Not surprisingly, as we’ve seen in Orlando, a weapon designed to kill lots of people kills lots of people.” - Rebecca Peters, International Action Network on Small Arms IANSA

Australia Stopped Mass Shootings After 1996 Massacre, So Why Doesn't the U.S. Follow Suit?
June 13, 2016 - democracynow.org - WATCH FULL SHOW

[herding cats]

20. If you don't mind, I'd like to add this here.

It's just a bit if icing on this hate cake.

Democrats Shout 'Shame!' as Republicans Overturn Vote to Prevent LGBT Discrimination

Furious Democrats repeatedly bellowed "shame!" in the US House of Representatives on Thursday as their Republican colleagues changed their votes at the last minute to defeat a pro-LGBT amendment.

The chaotic scene unfolded on the House floor shortly before noon, and comes less than a day after the chamber passed a defense authorization bill that includes a Republican provision protecting federal contractors from discrimination based on religious beliefs.

Democrats say that the amendment is an explicit attempt by Republicans to undercut President Obama's 2014 executive order preventing discrimination against individuals based on their gender identity or sexual orientation in federal contracts. The religious liberty amendment was attached in committee and never got a separate vote by the full House, leaving Democrats to choose between authorizing funding for the Department of Defense or voting against language that they had dubbed discriminatory.

New York Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat who failed in a bid with Republican members on Tuesday to add LGBT protections to the bill, offered an amendment on Thursday to try to overturn it. The amendment, which Maloney attached to separate legislation providing funding for military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs, would provide LGBT protections to counteract the religious liberty language in the defense bill passed the night before.

https://news.vice.com/article/democrats-shout-shame-as-republicans-overturn-vote-to-prevent-lgbt-discrimination

[L. Coyote]

21. Thanks for posting that. The culture is destructive, and maybe that's what they want.

If you can't win elections fairly, declare a culture war on your political opponents. They shave points any way they can. Just jail a few million liberal voters, etc......