Well… at least there is one group he doesn’t want to piss off.
“For now.”
“Until a more propitious time”
Pick whatever phrase you like.
Or “Let Congress pass FADA, in the mean time we have Sessions.”
Maybe President Trump will keep it, but President Pence won’t. And President Pence seems almost inevitable at some point.
Gives us time to codify it in more states. I’ll take what victory I can find this week.
Don’t count on it. Look for a new RFRA and bans on gay adoption. This is a smokescreen while more heinous plans to strip gay people of any rights are included in other legislation. Don’t listen to what they are saying, watch what they do.
If Trump had signed an EO, it would be difficult to challenge in court. His EO would just have repealed Obama’s EO. Legislation can be appealed in court.
Unless Trump gets a 2nd Supreme Court vacancy, the courts are safe in regards to gay rights.
Justice Ginsburg turns 84 in March.
Today is Opposite Trump day. He took his medication. World is safe for few hours.
May she live to 104…
Exactly my thinking.
Waiting for the "switch " (as in “bait and…”).
Strangely enough, throughout the campaign I never heard him say anything that was openly homophobic. He blasted Hispanics and blacks and Muslims. He disparaged women and the disabled. He attacked NATO and the EU. But he never spoke against gays or threatened gay marriage.
The same is not true of the rest of his team, of course. Pence is openly homophobic and would dissolve protections for the LGBT community in a heartbeat. Sessions and Roy Moore are drinking buddies. Moore is being touted for Sessions’ Senate seat, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Trump nominates him for the Supreme Court.
While Trump himself doesn’t seem to be openly homophobic, everyone who supports him is. It’s just part of the “alt” in alt-right.
Trump: I am being smart. I am dividing the Democratic Party. Now Hollywood cant criticize me.
Divide and conquer…
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@ajaykalra That’s the line of thought that comes to mind first. I don’t think the LGBT community has any illusion about this administration and will be deceived, but I do think to divide our coalition is what the PeePee clan intends to do.
And he said last year that North Carolina’s controversial anti-LGBT law was “unnecessary” before softening his language and labeling it a state issue.
Guys, this is the catch everyone should be watching for. States rights. If the States decided they want to revisit same sex marriage or LGBT workplace protections, I’m sure that Rump’s regime will go along with it. Rump himself is completely agnostic on it. Pence and Bannon are NOT. Pence especially wants a theocracy. Once the regime has installed a new Justice in the bench, that’s it.
Trump didn’t say anything openly homophobic…that is very true. Doesn’t mean that we like him.
As a gay man, I am so accustomed to this, every four to eight years becoming another punching bag that the GOP uses to drum up their base. It’s exhausting but so very expected.
As others have noted, this little gesticle (def: not even a real gesture) means nothing. The rubber hits the road when he signs an EO or law regarding “religious freedom” or gets to appoint another Justice. Then all bets are off, because I do not think marriage equality would survive its first challenge with a majority-5 Court. And make no mistake, states would be chomping at the bit to be the first to challenge. The only potential hope I have is that Roberts is enough of a selfish to understand what it would do to a Court of his name to grant marriage equality in one term only to reverse it shortly thereafter.