Top North Dakota GOP officials disavow anti-LGBT language

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Updated 8:14 pm CDT, Monday, July 27, 2020



Photo: Mike McCleary, AP

File-North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum announces the death of another resident due to COVID-19 at his daily briefing on the pandemic, Friday, April 10, 2020 at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. Top North Dakota Republican officials on Monday, July 27, 2020, disavowed an anti-LGBT resolution that was passed by hundreds of the party’s delegates and denounced by the state’s GOP governor. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Top North Dakota Republican officials on Monday disavowed an anti-LGBT resolution that was passed by hundreds of the party’s delegates and denounced by the state’s GOP governor.

State Republican Chairman Rick Berg said the party’s executive committee voted to disavow the resolution’s “harmful and divisive language.”

“North Dakota Republicans welcome all those who support less government and greater freedom. As leaders of the State Party, we would like to offer a sincere apology for the inclusion of these unacceptable, hurtful sentiments as part of our official business,” Berg, a former U.S. representative, said in a statement.

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The resolution was part of a package of party policy statements approved by delegates 621-139 in a mail-in vote in April. Delegates were asked to vote on over 50 resolutions as a whole. No one resolution was considered individually. The mail-in vote was organized after the party’s planned convention was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.


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Admittedly, I don’t know much about him, but Gov. Burgum seems like a much more moderate Republican than other republican Governors in very red States. I’ve seen him a couple of times in news conferences where he was passionately begging people to wear masks and follow CDC guidelines, even when Trump and his sycophants were calling the virus a hoax.