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As I've written over and over again throughout the election campaign ― as the media had bizarrely and irresponsibly portrayed Trump as "more accepting on gay issues" ― Trump met with religious extremists, and made promises to them.
After all, with both of them opposed to marriage equality, saying that Donald Trump is "far more accepting" on gay issues than Ted Cruz is like telling us that Barry Goldwater was far more accepting of blacks than Strom Thurmond.
The anger and animus toward LGBT people from these Trump supporters – many of them young – belies the idiotic and dangerous media narrative that posits Trump as "more accepting on gay issues" than other Republicans.
Contrary to those in the media and elsewhere who claimed he was "far more accepting" on LGBT issues than other GOP candidates, Donald Trump is proving that he very much will be a force against LGBT equality if elected president.
It's pathetic, as I've pointed out again and again, that much of the mainstream media has portrayed Trump as "more accepting on gay issues" than other Republicans -- again grading him on a curve because he's not railing against gays like others have -- while he has forcefully advocated for Scalia-like justices on the court, producing a list of 20.
Furthermore, Trump has in fact supported much of Pence's anti-LGBT agenda -- consistently opposed to marriage equality for years, and recently solidifying his support for the anti-LGBT First Amendment Defense Act -- and yet has been lazily portrayed in the media as "more accepting on gay issues" as Trump has tried to play it both ways.
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In a chatty mood, the president said he was happy to be with friends, suggesting in yet another way that he felt more accepted on his home turf than in Washington, that here he did not feel the heat, either political or as measured by a thermometer that has routinely cracked 100 degrees of late.
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