Romney-Ryan Ticket Out of Touch with Americans on LGBT Equality (Lavender Mafia not happy)

The Human Right Campaign - Working for LGBT Equal Rights ^ | August 11, 2012 | Dan Rafter

[2ndDivisionVet]

Mitt Romney announced Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate this morning, giving us a 2012 GOP ticket that could roll back much of the progress we've seen toward full equality. Ryan’s voting record in Congress – and his public remarks – make it clear that he does not support the dignity of LGBT Americans; a matter on which he is out-of-touch with the majority of Americans – even those within the Republican Party.

Paul Ryan does not support LGBT families, and has voted against allowing gay and lesbian couples to adopt. He voted against hate crime protections. He opposed repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and he does not support marriage equality. Recent polling shows just how out-of-touch Ryan’s positions on LGBT equality are: support for marriage equality stands at 54 percent nationwide, with those between the ages of 18 – 34 supporting marriage equality by 73 percent; according to a June CNN/ORC International Survey. Nearly 50 percent of Republicans under the age of 35 also support marriage equality, according to an NBC News/WSJ poll.

Mitt Romney’s record is no better than Ryan’s on matters of LGBT equality. Romney does not support relationship recognition for LGBT people – making him even more conservative on LGBT issues than former President George W. Bush, who supported civil unions while in office. Romney views workplace protections for LGBT people as an “unfair burden on employers,” and he does not acknowledge the dignity and respect LGBT families deserve. As a signer of the National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) “marriage pledge,” Mitt Romney has committed himself to vigorously pursuing a federal marriage amendment – a goal his running mate shares; defending the Defense of Marriage Act; and even setting up a McCarthy-like commission to investigate those who do not support NOM’s anti-LGBT views.

In the House, Ryan voted against hate crimes protections for LGBT people twice. He does not support marriage equality – in fact, he has twice supported the Federal Marriage Amendment that would ban loving, committed same-sex couples from marrying, and he supported a similar constitutional amendment in his home state of Wisconsin. Ryan does not support LGBT families – he voted in favor of banning gay and lesbian couples from adopting in the nation’s capital. He also voted against repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Learn more about Paul Ryan’s anti-LGBT votes via HRC’s Congressional Scorecards. For more on Mitt Romney’s anti-LGBT positions, visit www.hrc.org/romney.

[upchuck]

Thanks for posting this. The article is a hoot. How many ways can you say, Ryan has no use for in-your-face queers?

he does not support the dignity of LGBT Americans;

Paul Ryan does not support LGBT families

Recent polling shows just how out-of-touch Ryan’s positions on LGBT equality are

Ryan voted against hate crimes protections for LGBT people twice.

He does not support marriage equality

he has twice supported the Federal Marriage Amendment

And, finally, just to be sure you’re not missing the point of this article,

Ryan does not support LGBT families (again)

[OhioBuckeye]

omgosh...you owe me a roll of paper towels and a new monitor

:^)

[VeniVidiVici]

Romney/Ryan need to point out that NO STATE has passed gay marriage where it was put to a vote OF THE PEOPLE.

They can also come out and defend the law of the land - The Defense of Marriage Act.

[DMG2FUN]

The only people out of touch are the perverted homosexuals.

[profit_guy]

A “hate crime” to a lefty is when you disagree with them.

[Missouri gal]

Goals of the so-called Human Rights Campaign include reducing age of consent (i.e., allowing child molestation) and removing all other moral proscriptions involving sexual behavior. We see them working to silence moral objections, even those founded on medical science. They relentlessly attack anyone who objects to their agenda (because it is indefensible).

[Missouri gal]

Goals of the so-called Human Rights Campaign include reducing age of consent (i.e., allowing child molestation) and removing all other moral proscriptions involving sexual behavior. We see them working to silence moral objections, even those founded on medical science. They relentlessly attack anyone who objects to their agenda (because it is indefensible).

[CodeToad]

These faggots think not getting special treatment means they don’t have equality. Their militant views are too extreme for this country.

[fella]

The 1st of August 2012 proved who is out of touch with America. The lines were so long I couldn’t get lunch in my alotted 1/2 lunch hour.

[RayChuang88]

Breaking news to the LGBT crowd: most Americans don’t like same-sex marriages being legally pushed on us. Why do you think when the President of Chick-fil-A supported traditional marriages every Chick-fil-A store experienced a giant bump up in business?

[Wuli]

The LGBT activists are the ones “out of touch” with “most Americans”.

[little jeremiah]

This will make voting for Rombag possibly doable.

[dfwgator]

As if these guys would vote for a Republican anyway.

[Gene Eric]

>> That miserable 1.8% of the population would not have voted Republican anyway

The Left has coopted the homosexual agenda as a tool in its destruction of the Country’s Conservative fabric. Not sure the entire 1.8% subscribes to the hostility.

>> HOMOSEXUAL, because there’s nothing GAY about it.

Agree.