Trump seeks to decriminalize homosexuality

Cool!

This is not surprising. I’ve had so many friends that worked for Donald Trump over the years. He employs a lot of gay people. He is a New Yorker after all.

Does he have any ideologies? He seems to be all over the map.

Cool. Cool. Thank you!

I love how you present this as if his administration is the first one to think of it, OP.

Cute, but what about our "best friend Russia" and its treatment of gay people?

Does that mean that this US policy will be reversed?

[quote]US ends diplomatic visas for UN same-sex partners

R3 - so basically this guy can't win - he is doing something to help the gay population and you find fault with it. Not to mention his SOTU address where he is vowing to end HIV/AIDS. Some of you are major turkeys.

Just hover over that link and see it's about a gay guy hung in Iran. He don't give a shit about gays, he sees it as a cudgel to beat Iran with. I support the move, but the motive behind it is cynical, and the man and his advisers can still all die and go to hell.

TROLL. THREAD. CLOSED!!

I suspect this is part of Trump's campaign against Iran and will only encourage these countries to become even more anti-gay.

R7: Go back to the Heritage Foundation, you trifling bitch. We're not playing your game or falling for you bullshit here.

Haven't Evangelicals been largely responsible for pushing to get laws that criminalize homosexuality passed? It's those same Evangelicals who comprise most of his base. Is he going to tell them to stop?

I'm very surprised that this got past Pence as the behind-the-scenes Cheney like power behind the throne. Mother must be seething!

It’s the far-left Democrats, R11. To be fair.

Hail Trump!

The evangelicals in his circle will make sure this doesn't go beyond a declaration. The Global Equality Fund, launched by Obama and gutted by Trump, made tremendous impact on a grassroots level. More than any ridiculous declaration by Trump ever will.

r6 Yes, this article is the correct response to this ridiculous news. Even the UN said this new policy was motivated by nothing other than spite.

Only to stick to Iran!

He is a low life racist pig...but now you are saying gays can be bought by a Hitler?

Oh yeah let's love him now.

Is Joe Biden far left-R11?

And ALL the candidates, ALL of them are supporting the T bill which means the transing of gay children. And "identity" over "sex" when means homosexuality doesn't exist and more trans trans trans.

Broken, clock, etc.

oops meant R14

Is Biden far-left R14 and the rest re R20

[quote]Not to mention his SOTU address where he is vowing to end HIV/AIDS.

If his plan to eradicate HIV transmissions is anything like his plan to boost childhood cancer research, we don't have much to look forward to.

In case you wonder, he committed to adding a whooping $500 million over 10 years for childhood cancer research.

Gotta get the gays all hepped up so they'll back our upcoming war with Iran!

Oh, I didn’t know that, R20. That’s disappointing. I need to think about who I’m voting for in 2020.

R25 his foundation is connected to a transing kids organization

Did Canada go through this transgender stuff and “queer” stuff when they legalized gay marriage? What about Massachusetts? I don’t recall. Why just here in the US? There’s definitely to it. There’s something very nefarious going on with all that. It’s definitely a gay conversation therapy type of thing.

He wants to dump on Iran, but what about his good pals Russia and Saudi Arabia -- not to mention his own VP and evangelical supporters in America?

Once again, he hasn't thought things through.

I'm just amazed there are people on this board who are gullible enough to believe that Donald Trump or his administration ever does anything good for anyone else without an ulterior motive that involves either personal enrichment or done to fool certain people into thinking he's not n evil piece of shit. It's crystal clear that he and his band of demons think this is going to woo gay voters over to his side in the next election.

Some people are just too stupid to be allowed out on their own.

I'm sure he has pure motives

[quote]a bid aimed in part at denouncing Iran

He is a piece of shit, but that doesn't mean everything he ever does or says is wrong. (Just 98% of it.)

NO!!! NO!!!! THIS DOESN'T FIT THE NARRATIVE WE WANT!!!!!

Who funds all this transgender stuff? Some sort of religious group?

I think the trans push is backlash against gay marriage, or a backlash against gay rights in general (and part of the continuing backlash against women's rights/genuine feminism).

It is not funded by religion. (Well, in Iran it is). It is funded by some billionaire trans, "liberal" foundations, Pharma, and governments

It is a push, but only in America, R33.

R31: Go back to the Heritage Foundation, you trifling bitch. We're not playing your game or falling for you bullshit here.

R34, I thought maybe a Muslim group or maybe Jerry Falwell-like—if you’re going to be homosexual then we’re going to change your gender to give off a heterosexual allusion.

No, not just in the US, R33. In Canada (a huge push), the UK, Ireland, Australia, and also worldwide. I noticed EU funding it and read about it in "third world " countries as well - sad in countries where gay rights were just being recognized. It is truly a political attack on gay rights.

Let's give him a pass for raping women and getting hardons for killing non white pople!

Yes but Canada legalized gay marriage back in 2000 and Massachusetts back in 2001, yes? The trans stuff nevertheless happened then. The “queer”, etc.

[quote] It is truly a political attack on gay rights.

Yes it is. Most definitely. There’s something to it. I agree now.

R37, Well, it is supported in Muslim countries. They evangelicals could support it eventually as it does wipe out gay, but at the moment it is coming from a corrupt left accepting Pharma dollars. Maybe there is a secret globalism plot to destroy gay/women's rights - we don't know at this point.. The high level govt support is suspicious.

In a Canadian province, the left/liberals pushed T so much that the conservatives voted for a bill pushing the T conversion stuff on kids as well.

*never happened then.

Well, it wasn't long after, R40

[quote] so basically this guy can't win - he is doing something to help the gay population and you find fault with it. Not to mention his SOTU address where he is vowing to end HIV/AIDS. Some of you are major turkeys.

Oh, that must be why he dismissed all members of the HIV/AIDS advisory council without explanation and diverted HIV research funds to locking kids in cages?

Isn't he the first president since...I can't remember (Clinton?) to not write a proclamation letter for Gay Pride Month? That said, this is cool.

No, no R44. You never heard about transgender things back then. Now it’s everywhere (only after gay marr was legalized in the US). Queer was slur (besides Queer Eye).

Isn’t that how it is in some countries where you can’t be gay but you can change your gender?

Ignoring three (3) posters eliminated 23 posts on this thread. Milo, don't you have tricks to turn after Rebekah Mercer cancelled your checks?

This is just so he can shame Germany, France etc. for not signing on to this transparent attempt to ratchet up tensions with Iran.

In 2017, the US voted against a UN resolution condemning the execution of gay people. But now John Bolton is in charge of foreign policy, and what he wants more than anything is a war against Iran.

And, on the other hand, they do this:

Clever gays are not going to be pink tokens for Trump to wage war on brown countries while turning a blind eye to regimes like Russia. If it gets the job done, fine. But don't pretend this president cares anything about gays.

He should start with America, where it is criminal to be gay in employment and housing in many states. The circuit court appointments made by Trump, which decide employment law are NOT gay friendly. He could encourage his bigoted Republican cohorts to pass ENDA but does nothing.

Let's be honest, it's true he doesn't give a shit about gays, but the reality is he really doesn't give a shit about anyone- and anyone around him is doing it for the notoriety (or the money)...

When Obama announced a similar policy of promoting LGBT rights worldwide, Republicans - including Log Cabinettes - were outraged.

He has always been fruit-friendly, look at his son in law!

.......

Any man as morally perverse as Donald Trump would very likely have tasted the fruit of both sexes at some point in his life. I have no problem picturing Trump diddling boys during his lifetime.

I have no trouble believing that Donald is 110% heterosexual, coke-fueled nights at Studio 54 with Roy Cohn notwithstanding..

R56 that's a good one! I think Trump knows better than to take a swing at the gays.

.....

The chubby orange Nazi must decriminalize homosexuality in the United States FIRST before pointing the finger of shame elsewhere.

........

Or at least stop nominating judges whose aim is to RE-criminalize homosexuality, r61,

R63 Agreed, but this is just a matter of semantics about to which extent it is legal to be gay in the U.S. Legally sanctioned housing and employment discrimination tells me it is still very much criminalized. Trump has done nothing to address this.

[quote]gay conversation therapy

R27, Datalounge is gay conversation therapy.

"I'm Coming Out..."

R63 Sorry, I realize now you were just adding to my point, but I have my rage readers on at the moment.

And contrary to the claims of Trump régime apologists, it is not “hysterical” to suppose that our rights might be rolled back.

A publication of the ultra-conservative Federalist Society - with which 5 of the 9 current Supreme Court justices have been affiliated at some point - called Lawrence v Evans “the worst decision in the history of the Supreme Court.”

Correction - “Lawrence v Texas”

Look at the homophobe at R57? Perverse? 1965 called. It wants you back.

I love how a decision allowing consenting adults to have sex their way is worse than Plessy v. Ferguson which sanctioned legal segregation for 60 years.

And, I FF’d R57. He’s a homophobe. Diddling boys, pervert—fuck you.

R72 Feminist infiltrators associated with the Heritage foundation think they're very clever, but even their digs at Trump reek of homophobia.

The Donald was pro gay marriage before Hilary and Obama.

I don't think R57 is a "feminist," LOL.

Upthread there is some idea that this is all linked to gay marriage, which is not the case.

The problem is that many states, and the US federal government, have not enacted anti discrimination based on sexual orientation. So, going forward from a few years back it was mandated by the far left that sexual orientation by itself Is tragically discriminatory throwing the T's under the bus. It is politically impossible for Democrats to introduce, let alone pass, a gay only, non trans bill.

Homophobe? Are you fucking kidding me? Any man who hires whores to piss on beds in front of him (and probably ON him) is perverse. Any man who diddles boys is perverse. Just because I'm gay does not mean I'm automatically supposed to approve of that type of sick activity. So go right ahead and block me. God forbid either one of you hyper-sensitive twits should ever read anything that doesn't agree with your ludicrous ideas. Why your little brains might explode.

Trump gets that trans and gay are not the same thing. The Dems do not.

It still baffles my mind that anyone gives a fuck if someone feels like they are the opposite gender and want to live that life-- let them!!!

If you knew what a Clinton administration would've been doing on this front for the past few years, you'd blush at this meager attempt at the pre-Trump status quo.

Oh look - anti-trans freaks have hijacked yet another thread on Datalounge. Groundbreaking.

[quote]This is not surprising. I’ve had so many friends that worked for Donald Trump over the years. He employs a lot of gay people. He is a New Yorker after all.

He underplayed his New Yorkiness to win the vote.

I don't think he's PRO-gay or anti-gay. He's more New York "who gives a shit if someone's gay?"

My mussy is wet!

Oh dear! The mister will be in a mood tonight.

Is it ok to say we're happy about this one thing since we're opposed to everything else he's done?

[quote] Just hover over that link and see it's about a gay guy hung in Iran.

A hung gay guy in Iran? Hooray!

R87: Either is acceptable, Mary Grammar.

I wanna fuck Jared Kushner

This is good

Some of those irans are hot. The dudes spend a lot of time on their appearances. They have beautiful skin and nice tight buts

"That nice Nick Ayers would NEVER have let this happen Michael. Are you just going to let those perverts take control?"

R88 I was always taught people were hanged, pictures were hung.

R91: But are the buts of iraqs just as gud as irans? what bout syrias?

It's actually very irritating hearing "hung" used in this way in television because of this.

[quote]Either is acceptable, Mary Grammar.

Sure, according to the Alternate Grammar and Dictionary for Millenniots.

R3, it's the ideologues who you have to watch out for and are the ones currently digging the grave of the democratic party.

Uncles Adolf, Joe, Mao, Fidel and Pol

R96 Right? I don't want to have to do the fact checking and learn I was wrong all along but I'm pretty sure it's always been 'hanged' as the appropriate term.

Decriminalization of homosexuality should go over well in the islamic world, said no one ever.

I'm sure all the Jesus freak evangelicals will be on board with this.

Seems like the Moslem countries are the most vicious. The communist countries in the old days of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were very into persecution. Cuba was atrocious for decades under Fidel, but reports say it may have changed.

Where in homosexuality a crime in the U.S.?

R100, it doesn't matter. They are practically irrelevant on this issue since 67% of Americans support gay marriage and nowhere in the US is homosexuality illegal.

I'm sure this regime's buddies in Saudi Arabia will be falling over themselves in rush to implement this. And I'm sure that the sanctions for a refusal to do so will be really severe...

[quote]It’s the far-left Democrats, [R11]. To be fair.

R14, Are there any actual studies that show what the political orientations are of people who allow their children to be transed? Can you point us to those studies so we can check if your assertion that "far-left Democrats" are the major trans-ers of children?

Stop trying to argue with Milky Loads. His dementia has already set in.

R102 Anywhere it is legal to fire or evict a gay person.

**For being gay

I don't like far-left democrats-- as most of them are why NYC is not getting Amazon (I know, slay me, but that would have brought A LOT of money into NYC, including entertainment, broadway, and list goes on-- it's the dimwits that are saying "it's not fair" with no knowledge of how business actually works.

I, like most people, probably fall somewhere in the middle. Fiscally I think Repugs are less likely to waste money supporting people with the expectation of nothing in return--I hate that!! I'm socially democrat but these extremes are so annoying!!

However R103, one can still be legally discriminated against in many ways for being gay in many places in the U.S. I wonder if "decriminalize" means the same thing as "anti-discrimination." I suspect it does not.

Homosexuality is not illegal anywhere in the USA, but sodomy is still illegal in some places. In some places only same sex sodomy is illegal. And just so we're clear on this, the legal definition of sodomy is any type of penetrative sex other than penis/vagina sex. You'd be surprised the number of people who think sodomy automatically means butt fucking.

When it comes to the Trans issue that some many on here are discussing, it is not supported by most Evangelicals, because to support it they would have to accept that a person was born in the wrong body. Therefore they would have to disregard one of their central tenets, that God makes no mistakes. Look at the Baptist Medical center controversy from the 1970's.

All that logorrhea from R109 just to tell us that (s)he is center-right. Good for you, hun, how did that work out for you in 2016? Trump is exactly what you deserve.

This proves that the millions of gays who voted for Trump were right.

[quote]Trump administration launches global effort to end criminalization of homosexuality

The fact that anyone's even said it is an important step forward.

and if this does go any further it WILL highlight the countries where it is illegal. Brand them.

But it does seem bizarre that of all places for this to have come from.

R111 Sodomy is NOT illegal anywhere in the US, because the Supreme Court has invalidated those laws with Lawrence v. Texas, even if they remain on the books. Forcible sodomy is however illegal, everywhere.

If only, R104, but the Saudis probably have every politician with any clout on their payroll, globally.

R11 You're uninformed about what sodomy laws were actually targeting and who they impacted.

Employment/housing discrimination is a criminalization of being gay. So is equal service under the law being denied to gay customers.

R109, how do you explain corporate welfare and the tax cuts for the wealthy? These are at the expense of the poor and middle class. Please spare me the “socially liberal/fiscally conservative” bullshit.

Trump could have announced this while buttfucking Pence, lip-syncing to Judy Garland and doing jazz hands. And, people would still attack him for being anti gay. Regardless, of his other policies, just accept that this is a good thing, and we should be happy about it. You can still hate everything else that he does, but he is undoubtedly right on this one issue.

This is just a stick to beat Iran with. Trump does not give a fuck about helping gays, and many people in his "movement" would like nothing better than to lynch all the gays they can get their hands on.

In the eight years of Obama, what did he do while Iran was throwing gay men off the sides of buildings? I mean other than deliver pallets of cash to them?

R121: Trump sucks and R122 and I have already explained what's going on here. Deal with it.

If we can decriminalize it, more will come out into the open and we can round them up more easily.

WOW!! I will slow my roll, until I see what happens,...for now until I find it' s not real,,,,hoping ALL his children and Wife (Melania, as, I believe she is LBGTQ friendly) stand by this.

Don't be dumb. This isn't news. The U.S. foreign policy has always been in support of decriminalization of homosexuality. Even Heather Nauert said last year, "we do not consider such conduct [homosexuality] appropriate for criminalization."

R81 agreed!

There's a sucker born every minute, I guess.

Trump has diametrically contradicted things "his administration" has done, promised , or said several times. He may very well undo this via tweet after hearing some jackass on Fox News bitch about religious liberty. See, the transgender ban that was jump started despite Mattis initially recommending no changes and more research and findings re what medical services should be covered was needed.

There is "no plan" in place to actually do anything. Just a vague promise. Sound familiar? See, The Wall. See, the middle class 10% tax cut. See, "we're going to cover everybody and it's going to be cheaper." See, "we're pulling out of Syria." This will be walked back to nothing. Trump has ALREADY turned on the criminal justice reform bill he just signed a few weeks ago.

As pointed out, this is a bludgeon against Iran. You seriously think this administration is going to make any kind of move against Saudi Arabia? Or an African country where evangelicals hold sway. Yeah, OK.

R127, US foreign policy has also always been at least nominally respectful of international laws regarding asylees and refugees. Since when does the Trump administration give a shit?

And Datalounge far left heads explode over OP's headline.

Oscumba is not pro-gay. He is a tool of el-jibbity. He made a deal with a country that kills gays as state policy. He did nothing to stop the killings in Iran. Nothing.

r132 yawn. stormfronter. go and fuck your whore sister-wife

As if the US has the slightest ability to influence any other country to decriminalize homosexuality. Most (if not all) countries where it's still illegal will tell Donald Trump and the USA to eat shit and die. This is just more of Trump's pandering, and he's picked the wrong people to pander to. Well, except for the few nitwit homosexuals on this board who think he's actually trying to do something good for the gays.

R133 accused me of doing what he himself does on a daily basis. Psychological projection is one of the few weapons the Left has in its feeble arsenal.

R134 is the nitwit if he thinks continuing to reward Slaveocrats with votes won’t result in more mutilated gay boys.

Gays need to vote Republican. There are no other options. There is no anti-trans pro-gay party that is specifically dedicated to our well-being. It’s the GOP or nothing. If you continue to spout anti-Trump anti-GOP propaganda (not a single word of which is either true or grassroots), then you are supporting gay erasure.

Trans is gay genocide and the Left is its enabler. Iran kills gays and allows sex changes. They deserve to be destroyed for that alone. Who cares about the so-called “rights” of racist sexist antisemitic homophobic heterosexual gentile terrorist scum?

What message is the Trump régime sending to gays in Somalia - which is on the travel-ban list?

If you still refuse to vote for Trump after this, you’re not pro-gay and you never were.

Banning gays is an act of war, plain and simple.

Heterosexuality is a war against women and gay men.

And here come the trolls.

"If you don't believe Trump's promises even after all his lies you must be a homophobe!!"

Yeah, sure, run with that line.

R137 your medication is wearing off please hurry take some more!

This, but not a word against the gay banning at the school where his vp’s wife teaches...

This is all just another distraction.

Oh, wait, no, I'm sure even though Trump is seriously considering an illegal transfer of nuclear technology to Saudia Arabia, he's going to piss them off by... um, somehow getting them to stop making homosexuality punishable by death, or something.

Doesn't matter when Indiana is reversing the hate crime act.

Decriminalization means nothing in the U.S., it is a step back from marriage equality.

R137 & R139 are both mentally ill and should be institutionalized. They're probably the same person.

He's trying to legitimize his quest for a NOBEL.

Completely transparent.

This just seems like a trick to make us think "well maybe he's not that bad". It does not mean he wouldn't reverse gay marriage. There is a big grey area between criminalizing homosexuality and treating them as 100% equals. These random "good" things he throw out there always worry me because they are just meant to soften people...and it works.

Is this move because someone at one of his hotels talked to a group of gays about booking an event? That’s the only legitimate reason #45 does something like this.

Pay close attention to the details, because they will change drastically. Right now it's a global plan to decriminalize homosexuality. That will likely be watered down to target a select few countries (probably just Iran and maybe a few small countries with zero international influence/support). It will also likely be watered down to maybe just ending the death penalty--but of course not ending the death penalty for any other reason, paving the way for proxy executions. Also a likely carveout will be only targeting very narrow laws--e.g. you can't penalize private consensual gay sex among legal adults, but you can make the age of consent much higher for gays, anything "public" is fair game, etc. Trump would NEVER target, for example, Russia's laws against "gay-promoting propaganda."

Unbelievable. Trump is actually, for once, doing something positive for gays and he still gets attacked for it.

^ Forgot to add, oh, and look for Trump to "reward" countries that make superficial changes to their laws. Saudia Arabia will say OK we won't execute people JUST for being gay, there has to be another good reason, and Trump will OK a multibillion dollar military deal for them.

[quote]Unbelievable. Trump is actually, for once, doing something positive for gays and he still gets attacked for it.

Indeed, R152. What reasons could people possibly have not to trust Trump?

R152, Trump hasn't actually done anything, but go on and convince us why we should give him credit for what is yet another promise from a habitual liar.

What a crock of shit that the trolls have shown up for.

Decriminalizing homosexuality is a civil rights issue.

Trump has acted in exactly the opposite way because civil rights eat into profits.

Just like Trump announced that it is perfectly OK to fire someone because they are gay.

You trolls need to put down the crack pipe.

What it is is diversionary crap.

While Trump may want to decriminalize gay in many countries, does he think gays deserve equal rights?

He doesn’t in America

[bold]Finally[/bold]! Trump puts his insanity to good use.

Humanity is ours fellow gays!!!

Gay people have jobs and bills to pay. We've gotten screwed over just as hard as anyone else if not more so because we're expected to pay taxes for a government that treats us as second-class citizens.

Hitler was anti-smoking, anti-drinking, vegatarian, and liked to paint. Nice guy, right?

I don't get why people don't see this....Trump is essentially an 80s guy. He had his heyday in the friggin 80s. He thinks Ronald Reagan was the President during the coolest part of his life. As a New Yorker he has a live and let live type of attitude, until he perceives a slight or being taken advantage of. Then he goes after the jugular. It's really simple. He's Rodney Dangerfield as President.

[quote]R105, I think when R14 said "the far-left Democrats" he meant in politics. The Dems ARE pushing T and the transing of children. It isn't just the "far-left" ones, though. It is all of them.

Jesus Christ am I glad I've blocked your obsessive-compulsive psycho ass.

I repeat, he's looking to add credibility to his quest for a Nobel prize. Utterly transparent.

The Nobel Prize referral was proven to be a Trump fraud.,

This will anger that AOC person. She will NOT be standing when Trump states that he has decriminalized homosexuality at next year’s SOU.

AOC is homophobic? Really?

This man deserves credit for absolutely NOTHING he does or will do. Not an ounce. He's an illegitimate president who has unleashed the lowest scum this country has and we'll be dealing with it for decades. Like anything else with him and this administration, there are no good intentions here. Be very cautious of people who are acting like we should be thankful. They are on his side now and always.

R165, of course she won't because he will have done no such thing in less than a year even if he really wanted to, stupid.

Blocked^.

Trump? What? Yeah right!

This whole thread is gonna get blocked by moi.

Block me first.

[quote]R3 - so basically this guy can't win - he is doing something to help the gay population and you find fault with it. Not to mention his SOTU address where he is vowing to end HIV/AIDS. Some of you are major turkeys.

You're one gullible motherfucker, aren't you?

Trumpy is an attention whore. He announced a vague, impossible goal of eradicating HIV/AIDS after massively cutting HIV/AIDS research funding. He refuses to protect gay people's rights in federal hiring, and then announces he's going to make gay people legal in Iran, because....reasons.

And you're fucking stupid enough to believe this incoherent horseshit.

Rachel Maddow knows how to cover Trumpy - don't watch what they say. Watch what they do.

I'm thinking Trump has come to realize the issue of the LGB vs the T and is going to exploit it.

Donald Trump Jr.‏ Talk about getting ratioed. Even CNN's audience finally had enough. Have dialog about what @Martina actually said and not simply about some inevitable SJW criticism.

He won’t get any further with this apthan any other empty promise he’s made. Infrastructure? Isis? He’s a pack of lies in human form

He's surrounded, aided and abetted by a political party that's the scourge of LGBT people. He probably has nothing personally against gay people--I think I can see that. But he would have no problem throwing every last gay person under a bus. Then again, he'd throw practically anyone under the bus, except maybe his family.

So, no, I'm not impressed. Besides, it's always good for such a corrupt and morally bankrupt administration to have one pet "good" cause. And if this administration is so serious about it, let's see how they stand up to the Saudis or the Russians and their lovely track record of respecting gay people.

In a contest between us and Putin, we lose.

he just wants to poke Iran. The man who seats Federalist society judges to life time appointments wants us dead.

Trump’s DOJ submitted amicus briefs asking courts to allow discrimination against gays in the wedding cake baking case and the gay-losing-his-job-for-being-gay case.

Yeah, I really believe Trump wants to decriminalize being gay.

That'll be the day.

Do you hear those cricket sounds? He won't even stand up to his own party STILL trying to overturn gay marriage at the state level.

The national level repubs are no joyful picnic either.

More proof he really has no core beliefs.

R101 How DARE you say anything negative about the religion of piece? Dont you know, they are the beloved of the highly intelligent on the d l.

Where is Pence?

Pence is trying on his dress for the decriminalization ceremony!!

R172 "He announced a vague, impossible goal of eradicating HIV/AIDS after massively cutting HIV/AIDS research funding."

I forgot all about that false promise. There's just been too many to keep track of.

bump

It's a publicity stunt. Well-meaning perhaps, but in the end, empty words. Neither Trump nor anyone else will dare to go up against Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait and other Muslim countries leading the campaign to prevent the advancement of gay rights and silence gay voices in international forums.

R184 you forget to mention many African countries, and of course, Russia and China.

Trump's a NYer... He is more ce la vie towards Gays than anything. He never had a vendetta against us. He's finally making a positive move, and is lambasted. Just like that Amazon fiasco-everyone else is kissing their ass--we get the gig and start complaining! Be thankful. Let's see if honey works better than vinegar!

Nothing, because it’s FAKE NEWS, Ellie Mae. Or should I say Natasha? Maybe focus more on that squirrel, guurrrl…

Poor naive R186.

He's in bed with the religious right 24/7 of his term

& you think he's going to fool around with us now?

Many in our community were downright cheerful that a repub like Trump became "the gay friendly protector" during the 2016 "hold up the rainbow flag" moment.

Look how that turned out for sexual minorities since he took office.

Str8 guys, which Trump is 1000%, actually welcome the homosexual because it means there will be all the more stinkfish available for themselves!

[quote]the real world

you mean Gayland

Here's THE TRUTH:

[bold]People like people who are like themselves.[/bold]

Trump is a lying sack of shit, that has never done or said anything that was not mostly in his benefit. The man is incapable of learning, because that would require a certain amount of introspection and work that he would not do, because he thinks he is perfect.

He has simply learned from that other prick, Netanyahu, and those neo-nazis, that gay rights can be a play thing, and a stick to beat Muslims with.

Why there is any conversation beyond that, is beyond me. Let's remember the wall, which he said Mexico would pay for, space force etc.

What say I now? OP this quote is from your own article, did you read your own link?

[quote] since he (Trump) took office , his administration has scaled back some workplace protections for gay people and has argued in court that a federal anti-discrimination law doesn’t protect gay employees. He has also announced a ban on transgender people serving openly in the U.S. military,

OP your apparent support because Trump has "allowed" a gay ambassador to hold a conference aimed to make it legal for gay people to be gay is disgusting. Let me know when Trump himself tells these countries to decriminalize homosexuality.

Only a homophobe and an antisemite calls gay rights “a stick to beat Muslims” with? Are you that self-hating that you will openly side with anti-gay anti-Semitic hetero Muslim scum over gays and Jews?

Seriously, R191, die.

Islam and Christianity should be wiped off the face of the Earth for their crimes against the Jews and against homosexuals.

Saying el-jibbity instead of gay is a sign of a stealth homophobe.

[quote]AOC is homophobic? Really?

Yes. She supports the chemical and physical mutilation of gay youth and considers gays bigots for opposing it. She’s a handmaid who gives new meaning to the phrase “dumb broad,” and her degrees give new meaning to the phrase “grade inflation.”

The Indianapolis Star: The Indiana Senate voted to amend a hate crimes proposal Tuesday, scrapping from the bill all protected characteristics, including gender identity, race and sexual orientation.

The amendment to Senate Bill 12 removed the list of specific characteristics and added that judges can consider bias more generally as an aggravating circumstance when weighing a stricter sentence for a crime.

Only seven Republicans joined the Democrats in voting against the amendment. But no Trump lickspittle spoke against the amendment on the Senate floor.

If you refuse to support Donald Trump on this then you are not pro-gay and you never will be. Fuck Islam; those who perpetrate its bigoted lies deserve zero tolerance, and the KKKoran should be banned and burned as the Nazi-enabling hate speech it is.

I have to say that he’s a stupid cunt. And so, OP, are you.

Behead those who insult homosexuality!

R199 is a homophobe because he hates Trump so much he’s willing to hurt gay people so the Slaveocrats can campaign off the backs of our corpses.

If Donald Trump converted to Judaism R199 would gladly turn Nazi.

Heterosexuality is a human rights violation.

Until and unless gay lives matter enough to justify the use of force to defend us, no lives matter.

Death to the cult of PIV-rape and the cults of Jesus and Muhammad.

Trump haters also hate gays and want to see us mutilated and sterilized, and they are willing to side with Muslims to do it. And if Jews become collateral damage, even better.

What kind of antisemite prays at the wailing wall? What kind of homophobe condemns gay genocide and nominates gay people to judgeships and ambassadorships?

R193, I read that and thought “wow”. Lol. Good lord.

[quote]you forget to mention many African countries, and of course, Russia and China.

Wrong R185. With the exception of Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda, those African countries against the progress of gay rights in international forums are MUSLIM. Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda have large, hostile Muslim populations against whom they are fighting constant battles for power and control. Russia voted No. China abstained. Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, China and Russia do not take the active role that Muslim bloc countries do to silence gay voices in international forums.

The racist homophobic misandrist attacks on gay white men must stop or we will use retaliatory force to stop them.

It is not just the US, R27. It is global.

In Iran, the govt will kill you for being gay but they will loan you the $ for SRS.

Read up on the Equality bill in the UK and what has been happening there re: T.

Islam and Christianity are nothing but racist sexist antisemitic homophobic blasphemy against the Jewish God Almighty, Adonai. The Jewish God is God, and gays and lesbians are His children.

To not be Jewish is to speak hate speech against God.

To not be gay is to defile His creation.

What is ratioed?

Very good! Keep posting your Dump-defending BULLSHIT, Boris! Be a good comrade, and we won’t have to kill your mother! Fucking idiots.

The next Holocaust will be to ethnically cleanse the world of the race, religions, and sexual orientation that perpetrated the last one.

R215 is a xenophobic homophobic antisemitic troll for Iran. Anti-Trump at this point is also anti-gay and anti-Jewish. If you are either gay or Jewish or both, then continuing to support the anti-gay anti-Jewish anti-woman anti-child Slaveocrat Party makes you an enabler of genocide.

R216 Yes. And in the US, it will be led by followers of Dump.

“Anti-Trump at this point is also anti-gay and anti-Jewish.” LOL!!!

All anti-Trump anti-GOP concern trolling is just that: concern trolling. The Left sold us out to our enemies. Continuing to vote for them is voting for our genocide.

Accusing Trump supporters of treason is itself an act of treason in and of itself, and it becomes doubly homophobic when gay Trump supporters are the targets of said treason.

To know what the Left is up to, find out what they accuse the Right of doing.

Shelly? Shelly Adelson? Oh, do go back to watching Fox News, honey - I’m sure you’re missing some important BREAKING NEWS!!!

The Left is the one pushing the new Red Scare in addition to pushing for the chemical and physical sterilization of gay youth in the name of the cult of Jenn-durr. They must be stopped. Gays can not afford another generation of this menace.

R222 is taking orders from Tehran.

Only MSNPC shills use “Fox News” as a pejorative.

Fox News is news. National socialism is socialism. Trans women are women. Only one of these statements is untrue, and it ain’t the first two.

Hetero leftist males are misogynistic pricks who use their leftism to justify raping women and cockblocking gay men. It has got to stop.

Datalounge is becoming Moscowlounge.

R196 and R220 are right. If Donald Trump cured cancer, the leftist idiots and liars would start shouting and marching. It would go like this: TRUMP UNFAIR TO CANCER! CANCER A VICTIM OF TRUMP! CANCERS RIGHTS VIOLATED! JOIN THE BRING BACK CANCER MARCH--sign up with Soros, Sarsor, Hogg, Griffin, Steep!!! CANCER MUST BE PROTECTED! DON'T LET CANCER BE CONQUERED OR PUT IN CAGES!

Keith Ellison supported Bernie Sanders back in 2016. So...

I don't know how to make people understand this. Trump is not racist. Trump is not homophobic. BECAUSE Trump does. not. care. He doesn't care about anyone or anything they do unless it affects him. He does go out on a limb occasionally to include Blacks or gays because....it gets him attention and he thinks it will get them to vote for him. He is campaigning. that's all. He doesn't care who has rights, who doesn't have them, he doesn't care about their lifestyle, or the color of their skin. He only cares about TRUMP. He only cares about his kids if he thinks they make him look good or bad. If he felt it was okay to have sex with Ivanka, he would and then he would be over her too. (I know he hasn't because he does knows it would be wrong, it is the only thing I can give him). Anything Trump does is to benefit Trump.

Correct, R231 -- Trump isn't gay, black, Hispanic, disabled, etc., so he hasn't given the gay, black, Hispanic, disabled, etc. experience a single second of thought, other than how he can exploit it for electoral advantage. His prejudice isn't against race or sexuality or any other identity -- it's against everyone that isn't him.

I thought the Gay Jewish Supremacist Troll was on permanent ban. I guess due to on-going GUI issues, he's baaaaaccckk.

YOu queens don’t care about gays throughout the world. Your hatred of Trump consumes you. Many of you are hiv poz. Constant rage is bad for the immune system

How can anyone not be a gay Jewish supremacist after all the horrible things Christians, Muslims, and heterosexuals have done?

R233 is a racist sexist antisemitic homophobic troll.

So is R234.

Out Magazine writer Mathew Rodriquez condemn's Trump's plans as racist and colonialist:

[quote]As if the US has the slightest ability to influence any other country to decriminalize homosexuality.

That's not the point. They want to try to leverage more countries to turn their backs on Iran, like the US has. More sanctions, etc. It has nothing to do with helping gay people anywhere, trust me.

They want to bring Iran down because it's the biggest regional opponent to Israel and the Saudis. I'm no fan of Iran, as a secular Western man, but let's not see the motive as anything other than it really is.

Provide verificatia of Iran executing sisters or STFU. And we mean showing the actual death taking place before and after, etc. Anything else is CIA bullshit to incite hatred among the really stupid.

So R240 if Iran bans the use of phones/cameras recording gay executions then they just didn't happen?

I guess since most of the US Civil War deaths weren't photographed at the time then those deaths didn't take place either?

We see hot sisters with ropes around their necks but why not of what follows?

Sorry Jews, nobody cares. Jews are passe. Muslims are "in" right now.

R242 Are you a Russian or a crackpot?

Maybe both?

Shut up, Matthew Anscher@ r242.

Will be delightful to see him enforce the same standard with Saudi Arabia and Iran, not to mention de facto criminalization like Russia's propaganda law. I'm sure all of them will be encouraged to comply equally. 🙄

From the Washington Examiner: President Trump drew a blank Wednesday when told about his own administration’s push to legalize homosexuality across the globe. A reporter asked Trump in the Oval Office about “your push to decriminalize homosexuality around the world,” asking, “Are you doing that and why?”

Trump said, however, “I don’t know which report you’re talking about. We have many reports.” White House representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Trump was aware of his administration’s push to repeal anti-homosexuality laws in 71 countries.

Did his gay ambassador decide this policy on his own? Ooh, I hope so....

R247 "Trump said, however, “I don’t know which report you’re talking about. We have many reports.”"

Haha, suck it every asshole on this thread who chastised the rest of us for not giving Trump credit for something he hasn't actually done. Try enrolling in Trump University next, dumbfucks.

[quote] If Donald Trump cured cancer

Donald Trump IS CANCER...

This is amazing and everyone here should be cheering it. Does anyone remember that Barack Obama strongly opposed gay marriage in 2008?

It's 8 hours ahead in Moscow, and poor Boris ^ hasn't gotten any sleep.

HEADLINE: Trump apparently not familiar with his administration's push for global decriminalization of homosexuality

What say you now OP?

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Yes,Trump has no clue this is supposed to be one of his policies.

That tells you how committed he is to it

R251, Obama was never “strongly opposed” to gay marriage— but Trump and the GOP still are.

Nowhere in this decriminalize push is there ANY mention of supporting gay marriage.

[quote] YOu queens don’t care about gays throughout the world. Your hatred of Trump consumes you.

Trump doesn’t care about gays around the world

Democrats don't care about gays in the U.S. They have thrown us under the bus for illegal aliens and Islam.

^ is absolutely right. The left masturbates to m. They can do no WRONG. Excuses in abundance. However, the left could give a shit about gays.

r141, heterosexuality is the reason you exist.

‘We have many reports’