10 Disgusting Things Said About LGBT People at the Values Voter Summit
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This past weekend was the Values Voters Summit, in which the Family Research Council welcomes its fellow social conservative groups together to show how many lawmakers they can attract to such an audience. As usual, the weekend was rife with anti-choice and anti-gay rhetoric, but as Justin Snow at MetroWeekly points out, very few lawmakers mentioned LGBT issues in their speeches. Still, attendees voted that “religious liberty” was the most important issue for conservatives, a dog whistle for the arguments used to oppose most LGBT rights.
Though elected officials like Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rand Paul (R-KY), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Tim Scott (R-SC) avoided the topic of LGBT issues, plenty of others who spoke at the conference filled in the gap. Thanks in particular to coverage from People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch, here is a glimpse of what social conservatives have to say about LGBT people:
1. Marriage Equality Attempts To “Deconstruct The Very Nature Of Reality”
The National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown was adamant that marriage equality is not a “live and let live debate.” Indeed, same-sex marriage, he explained, is an attempt to deconstruct the very nature of reality, the very nature of what it means to be a human being”:
2. Boys Will Pretend To Be Transgender To Get Into The Girls’ Locker Room
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee took to the stage to rail against California’s new law protecting transgender students. He joked that if the law were in place when he was in high school, all the boys would have pretended to be transgender so they could shower in the girls’ locker room, adding, “isn’t that the craziest thing you’ve ever heard?”
Watch Huckabee’s full remarks on the Values Voter Summit website (anti-trans remarks begin around 17:23).3. Marriage Equality Belongs “In the Dustbin Of History” With Slavery
Mat Staver of the Liberty Counsel was outraged that the Supreme Court “had the audacity” to rule against the Defense of Marriage Act and imply that those who oppose marriage equality are bigoted. He compared the decision to the Dred Scott decision, which upheld slavery, and suggested that Windsor belongs in the “dustbins of history” along with it.
Watch Staver’s full remarks on the Values Voter Summit website (anti-equality remarks begin around 13:58)
