WASHINGTON — Friday, on the two-month anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting that took the lives of 49 LGBTQ people and allies, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) courted anti-LGBTQ activists just 10 miles from the site of the tragedy in Orlando. Rubio, who has a long track record of opposing LGBTQ protections and basic gun safety…
ORLANDO, Fla. – On the eve of the two-month anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub massacre, presidential candidate Donald Trump will join U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio at a radical anti-LGBTQ event in Orlando. Equality Florida, joined by community partners and individuals directly impacted by the shooting, will gather Thursday, Aug. 11 for a peaceful rally and press…
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump will join U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) to speak this week at a campaign training hosted by the Liberty Council, an extremist hate group monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its anti-LGBTQ discrimination efforts. The two-day event is set to take place at the Hyatt Regency Orlando (9801…
Aug. 11, Sen. Marco Rubio will address listeners at an event in Orlando that is backed in part by the virulently anti-gay Liberty Counsel. The event, “Rediscovering God in America Renewal Project” is being held at a hotel that is less than 10 miles from the site where Omar Mateen slaughtered 49 people at a…
Three times in the last two days, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio campaigned for president on his opposition to nationwide marriage equality and overturning the Supreme Court’s historic decision last June, reports the HRC. During the Republican debate in Greenville, South Carolina on Saturday, Rubio twice invoked his opposition to marriage equality. Near the beginning of…
This week Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio moved unashamedly further to the Christian Right with the formation of a religious liberty advisory board, which includes such notable anti-LGBT figures as megachurch pastor, Rick Warren, Kelly Fiedorek and Doug Napier, lawyers with the anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom and others. According to a report in The Advocate,…
In an interview with David Brody at the Christian Broadcasting Network published Saturday GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio told Brody that as president he would reverse President Obama’s LGBT executive orders that stop religious business owners from discriminating against gays, appoint SCOTUS judges that believe that there are no constitutional rights to an abortion, or…
WASHINGTON – Sen. Marco Rubio has made headlines in recent days for saying he opposes a constitutional amendment that would allow states to re-ban marriage equality. But he’s made clear that rather than use a constitutional amendment, he’s willing to change the makeup of the court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges. “Sen. Rubio’s game of…
Sen. Marco Rubio announced today that he will run for president. Rubio told his top donors in a conference call that he feels “uniquely qualified” to pitch his Republican Party as one that will defend the American Dream. Rubio immediately took on Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying the former first lady “is a leader…
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A prominent gay rights advocacy group says a key congressional Democrat will push for new rights for same-sex couples in the Senate’s immigration reform bill — a move which could undermine the legislation’s bipartisan support. According to a spokesman for Immigration Equality, Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy intends to offer an amendment…
