What does it say about our politics that one of the two real parties is trying to use the mass shooting of gay people as an opportunity to benefit politically by whipping up hate and paranoid xenophobia over it. Especially as the same party has used and is using hatred and paranoid fear of LGBT people in their electoral strategy this year.
The Republican Party is the major force of moral depravity and evil in the United States - especially if you include the media which will promote their lines to get them elected because they are more profitable for media corporations.
That proposal last night that Democrats demand equal rights under the law for the very people being used by Republicans was a serious one. I think that Democrats in the House and Senate should introduce a bill that would explicitly name LGBT people as a covered class under the Civil Rights Act. Today, it isn't an outrageously complex proposal. Just say that from the day the bill is signed into law that discrimination against lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender people is a violation of the law and liable to be prosecuted. Make the Republicans put their votes where there mouths currently are, before they go back to whipping up hatred of us.
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