Gay Trump supporters Juan Hernandez and Charles Moran at the 2016 RNC. Photo: ABC News, Screenshot
“It’s official! The national GOP platform has been stripped of all anti-LGBT language! Inclusion won! Thank you @realDonaldTrump!”
This untrue statement was published July 15th on X (formerly Twitter) by Charles Moran, president of The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR), the nation’s largest group for “LGBT conservatives.” Moments later, his fellow conservative commenters started calling him a pedophile.
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Moran’s post on X included an image of himself standing in a Fox News-branded area of the Republican National Convention and holding up a booklet-sized version of the newly revised Republican Party platform.
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While the platform removed Republicans’ decades-long opposition to same-sex marriage, Chapter 8, Section 1 of the platform says, “Republicans will promote a Culture that values the Sanctity of Marriage, the blessings of childhood, the foundational role of families, and supports working parents. We will end policies that punish families.”
The “sanctity of marriage” is a phrase that has sometimes been used as a dog whistle for heterosexual marriage (that is, marriages that are sanctified and sanctioned by evangelical churches). Trump discriminated against married same-sex couples and their families during his presidency.
The GOP platform also contains numerous sections dedicated to banning LGBTQ+ content from schools and rolling back legal protections for transgender people of all ages. It also promises “religious liberty” protections for Christians who discriminate against queer people. as well as the right to keep “Christian-hating” individuals out of the country.
Barely 34 minutes later, an X commenter named @itchy wrote, “You are a disgusting pedophile.” He wasn’t alone. Other commenters referred to Moran as “disgusting” and offensive to Christian Gods. One commenter wished him good luck in recovering from MPOX, a painful skin disease that spread amongst queer men from 2022 to 2023.
— Clown World Resident (@Psyopped_gen) July 16, 2024
Pyrrhic victory, Charles. There is no “Republican exception clause” that absolves you (or anyone) from the transcendent moral truths of the Bible, God’s Word. (True) #Marriage remains between a man and a woman, all political machinations aside.
Republicans and religious conservatives have long accused LGBTQ+ people of molesting kids. Current right-wing rhetoric regularly vilifies LGBTQ+ people and their allies as “groomers” who seek to “indoctrinate” and “sexualize” kids.
Others mocked Moran for aligning himself with Republicans at all. Another pointed out that Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist blueprint for a second Trump presidency, has plenty of anti-LGBTQ+ aims.
Trump claims to have never heard of it. But it was written with the participation of least 240 former Trump administration officials, associates, and acolytes under the guidance of his “good friend” Kevin Roberts, head of the far-right Heritage Foundation.
Let me know how that whole Leopards Eating My Face Party thing works out for you.
The Log Cabin Republicans’ love affair with Trump is anti-LGBTQ+
While the national board of LCR chose not to endorse Trump in 2016, numerous state chapters of LCR did. The national LCR endorsed Trump in 2020, with board members writing an op-ed in The Washington Post proclaiming that “Trump met his commitments to LGBTQ Americans.”
LCR opposes the rolling back of transgender public accommodations in public schools and has suggested policies to Republicans that would accommodate trans students while giving school districts flexibility on how to do so. LCR also opposes gender-affirming care for minors. The group’s Out Spoken website pushes the right-wing falsehood that mental illness causes trans individuals to “snap” and become mass shooters.
