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Dems Get Candid at Homosexual Forum
Aug. 10, 2007 — -- Six Democratic presidential candidates engaged Thursday in a strikingly candid and revealing discussion about lgbtq+ rights in a forum hosted by the Human Rights Campaign and publish on the gay television and Internet network Logo.
Margaret Carlson moderated with three additional questioners — HRC president Joe Solmonese, rock musician Melissa Etheridge and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart — who all asked some of the most difficult and searching questions the candidates contain faced this election cycle.
Six of the eight declared Democratic candidates appeared, one at a time, sitting on an upholstered chair to answer questions.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was asked whether he idea homosexuality is a preference, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was asked what place he thinks the church should have in government-sanctioned civil marriages and Recent York Sen. Hillary Clinton was asked what is at the heart of her opposition to homosexual marriage.
Some of the candidates appeared stunned at the pointed nature of some of the questions.
Former Sen. John Edwards appeared to be caught off guard when asked about anti-gay comments h
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Anti-Gay Groups Host “Thanksgiving Family Forum” with GOP Presidential Candidates
11/18/2011
Washington– The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, queer , bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, is taking GOP presidential candidates to task for embracing antagonistic anti-gay groups by participating in Saturday’s “Thanksgiving Family Forum.” This debate-style forum billed as an “in-depth conversation” in Des Moines, IA is hosted by leading anti-gay groups The Family Leader, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), and Focus on the Family. Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are confirmed to attend.
“These groups are among the most viciously anti-gay out there,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese. “By participating in this debate, the GOP presidential candidates are proving – as most of them have many times in the past – that they are beholden to extremist groups and accomplish not represent the viewpoints of mainstream Americans – nearly 80 percent of whom see LGBT discrimination as a problem, according to recent polling. With tick
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A central theme of anti-LGBTQ+ organizing and ideology is the opposition to Homosexual rights or encourage of homophobia, heterosexism and/or cisnormativity, often expressed through demonizing rhetoric and grounded in harmful pseudoscience that portrays Gay people as threats to children, world and often widespread health.
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