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You are joking about it, but there are some on the far right who would like to see that happen. Look up pastor Steven Anderson in Arizona. He is planting churches all over the country and has a lot more influence than most people realize.
Oh gosh, just stop already. Do you want to be play the victim or something? No one like that will ever pick up steam. Even among Christians. That type of stuff is so vile that it'll never be mainstream, especially among conservatives.
The insularity of the liberals in here is so laughable. That would as funny as me saying that Clinton would've meant the end to all Christian churches, all religious freedom, a ban on talk radio and jail time for wearing offensive Halloween costumes.
You are joking about it, but there are some on the far right who would like to see that happen. Look up pastor Steven Anderson in Arizona. He is planting churches all over the country and has a lot more influence than most people realize.
If this election was a football game it's time for you to burn all 3 of your timeouts and mentally/emotionally regroup.
But Pence isn't. Pence wanted to divert funding from AIDS research and appropriate public funding for conversion therapy.
I am not so worried about Trump himself, but who he fills his cabinet with and also what he allows the GOP Congress to do. I doubt an anti-LGBT crusade will be at the top of Trump's agenda, but of Congress wants to do it, I don't trust that Trump won't go along with it.
Wouldn't worry about Pence. He did his job for Trump. Got him conservative votes that he was worried might otherwise stay home because Trump really isn't conservative on most social issues.
Regardless of whether or not the religious right is able to roll back marriage equality, how do you think LGBT acceptance in general will play out in our society over the next four years?
Even under Obama, there are some places in the U.S. (I live in one of them) where LGBT acceptance has only reached the point it was in the major urban centers during the 1980s. Homosexuality is tolerated, but it's not accepted and coming out can have significant social consequences and possibly make you a target for physical harm or cause you to lose your job. Gay jokes and slurs fly in every day conversation and nobody thinks anything of it.
I am concerned that if the religious right gets what they want i.e. marriage equality reversed, DADT re-instated, some of the acceptance that has been built nationwide will be reversed and the situation will become unbearable in Bible Belt states like Oklahoma and Mississippi (if it isn't already).
Does anybody else have this worry or is it unfounded?
Trump isn't even religious. People are about to find out that he only used the Republican platform to get elected
Just because he doesn't pander to these people doesn't mean he gives two $hits about their lifestyle.
I believe that under Trump, he will allow the states to decide on the aspects of religious freedom on such as if a business has a right to refuse to serve a gay wedding or if a transgender has a right to use a certain rest room. States can have greater say in religious freedom and that is as far as it goes. Other than that there be no change in gay marriage being legal.
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