The Human Rights Campaign has published a listing of six of the 114th Congress's most ardently anti-LGBT members. The six Republicans featured in the “Faces of Inequality” hail from a wide range of different professional backgrounds, but their track records regarding gay marriage, ENDA, and anti-bullying legislation are all exactly what you would expect:
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Jody Hice (R-GA): compared marriage equality to bestiality and incest, and said “The concept of ‘love' is not the issue when it comes to marriage!”
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Glenn Grothman (R-WI): promised to be “an outspoken” opponent of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) because it gives “preferences” to LGBT employees.
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Tom Emmer (R-MN): said he would not sign anti-bullying legislation to promote safe schools because “I don't want the government doing that for us.”
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Cresent Hardy (R-NV): was one of only 13 lawmakers who voted against Nevada's bill banning housing and job discrimination against transgender people.
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Mike Bost (R-IL): opposed any form of relationship recognition for same-sex couples, saying, “I didn't vote for civil unions and I won't be voting for gay marriages.”
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Thom Tillis (R-NC): has continued his fight against marriage equality in North Carolina, hiring a rabidly anti-LGBT activist attorney from the fanatical anti-equality National Organization for Marriage.
Check out the full list here.
