Log Cabin Republican President: GOP passed most anti-LGBT platform in party history - CNN

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"There isn't any approach to sugar-coat this: I am mad as h*** -- and I do know you're, too," Gregory Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, stated Tuesday in a fundraising e mail. "Moments in the past, the Republican Social gathering handed probably the most anti-LGBT Platform within the Social gathering's 162-year historical past."

LGBT points have been a well-liked challenge this week as Republicans in Cleveland labored to hammer out a platform representing the guts of the GOP.

A number of delegates attending Platform Committee conferences forward of subsequent week's Republican Nationwide Conference repeatedly challenged their friends to average provisions affecting homosexual People.

"Opposition to marriage equality, nonsense about loos, an endorsement of the debunked psychological apply of 'pray the homosexual away' — it is all in there," Angelo stated. "This is not my GOP, and I do know it isn't yours both. Heck, it isn't even Donald Trump's!"

Following a lethal assault on an Orlando homosexual membership in June, Trump was praised by some for portraying himself as an ally of the LGBT group.

"This can be a very darkish second in America's historical past," Trump said on the time. "A radical Islamic terrorist focused the nightclub not solely as a result of he needed to kill People, however in an effort to execute homosexual and lesbian residents due to their sexual orientation."

Angelo went on to criticize Republicans for his or her insensitivity in coping with points affecting homosexual People following the assault.

"When given an opportunity to comply with the lead of our presumptive presidential nominee and attain out to the LGBT group within the wake of the terrible terrorist bloodbath in Orlando on the homosexual nightclub Pulse, the Platform Committee stated NO," he wrote.

A gaggle of Republicans that pressured a collection of inauspicious check votes on LGBT points on the conference hope the battle is not over and plans to take that struggle all the best way to the conference flooring.

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The proposal wouldn't add LGBT language into the platform, however would substitute the greater than 60-page draft platform with a 1,200 phrase assertion of 17 core rules of the Republican Get together. The group believes that shifting to a clearly said platform would take away the backlash related to the talk over LGBT points.

The platform committee's selections this week have been a transfer to the Proper on social conservative points in a yr the place some LGBT Republicans have referred to as presumptive Republican nominee "probably the most pro-gay Republican nominee ever."

"I've little question that Donald Trump can be higher for LGBT People," Chris Barron, the previous president of the now-defunct homosexual conservative group GOProud, beforehand told CNN.

CNN's Tal Kopan contributed to this report.

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