Pence Promises Supporters That LGBTQ Rights Will Be FIRST To Go (VIDEO)
Just before the nation began holding its breath in collective terror of living in the America that Trump promised to give us, and just before Trump supporters and privileged cis folks felt the need to tell minorities to calm down and accept a Trump presidency, the nation’s new vice president gave a speech promising that the first rights to be taken away under a Trump/Pence administration are the rights of LGBTQ citizens. Barely anyone seemed to notice.
During an interview with James Dobson, host of the wildly homophobic Focus on the Family, Mike Pence assured his interviewer and his supporters that any progress made toward protecting LGBTQ rights under President Obama will be swiftly undone under President Trump. Issue by issue, he asserted over and over again a plan to marginalize and invalidate an entire group of citizens whom he is about to lead as vice-president.
Remember President Obama issuing orders to protect transgender citizens from being exposed to transphobia, hatred, and violence in public restrooms inside schools and federal buildings? Those protections are over. “This is such an example of an administration that seems to have… there’s no area of our lives too small for them to want to regulate, no aspect of our constitution too large for them to ignore […] These issues are resolved in the state of Indiana whenever they come up, and they should be resolved, for the safety and wellbeing of our children first and foremost, their privacy and rights, and with common sense […] Washington has no business intruding on the operation of our local schools.
”Remember when Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the one that allowed businesses in Indiana to decide, once again, who could sit at the lunch counter? Yes, he’ll do that to the entire country now.“No-one should fear persecution because of their deeply-held religious beliefs. I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order. The Trump-Pence administration will be dedicated to preserving the liberties of our people, including the freedom of religion that’s enshrined in our Bill of Rights.
”Trump promised the same on Sept. 26, 2016, when he confirmed that, as president, he would repeal all LGBTQ protections passed under President Obama. Then. on Nov. 6, 2016, two days before Election Day when he needed votes, he appeared to walk it all back. No worries, says Mike Pence. Rolling back those protections is high on the list of priorities for a Trump/Pence administration.
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