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| MadProfessah took this picture in Columbus, Ohio on August 2, 2016 |
The
worst mass shooting in United States history happened just under two months ago (June 12, 2016) in Orlando Florida, at a gay nightclub called Pulse. Today Senator
Marcos Rubio and GOP Presidential nominee
Donald Trump are 10 miles from the site of the shooting,
both attending a virulently anti-LGBT event called "Rediscovering God in America." The DNC Chair
Donna Brazile and DNC LGBT Caucus Chair
Earl Fowlkes could not let this pass without commentary, which is today's Queer Quote:
"Instead
of honoring the memory of those we lost at Pulse two months ago, Donald
Trump and Marco Rubio have come to Orlando to headline a gathering of
some of the nation’s most incendiary anti-gay bigots. We at the DNC join
all people of good conscience in expressing our solidarity with the
Orlando LGBT community as they continue to grieve the deadliest shooting
in American history. We suggest Trump and Rubio disavow these anti-gay
extremists who have likened gay people to Nazis and characterized
HIV/AIDS as divine ‘penalties' for being gay. Failing to do so will be
yet another example of the utter lack of judgment that makes Trump unfit
to serve."
This blog post is not an endorsement or non-endorsement of any political candidate but is my (first-amendment protected) commentary on the appropriateness of major political figures attending an event organized by virulent homophobes so close (in time and space) to the site of the Pulse nightclub massacre where literally dozens and dozens of LGBT individuals were killed.
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