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Tulsi Gabbard Ignores HRC Questionnaire on LGBTQ Issues<\/b><\/p>\n

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Tulsi Gabbard has apparently chosen to ignore a questionnaire on LGBTQ issues submitted to Democratic presidential candidates <\/a>by the Human Rights Campaign.<\/p>\n

Wrote HRC on a landing page for the responses: “The Human Rights Campaign sent our questionnaire to all Democratic presidential candidates earlier this year. Unfortunately, we did not receive responses from Tulsi Gabbard ahead of publication. Should she send a response, we will update the site accordingly. Deval Patrick and Andrew Yang sent responses but are not included because they have since suspended their campaigns.”<\/p>\n

The lack of a response is notable because of Gabbard’s involvement with anti-LGBTQ groups in the past.<\/p>\n

Gabbard released a video<\/a> in January 2019 apologizing for her past views and statements about LGBTQ people, and work for anti-gay<\/a> groups.<\/p>\n

That month, a CNN investigation revealed Gabbard’s close ties with the anti-gay groups run by her father, when she was in her late teens<\/a>: ‘Gabbard’s past positions can be traced back to the early 2000s, when she first sought public office.During her run for state legislature in 2002, Gabbard told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin<\/em><\/a>, “Working with my father, Mike Gabbard, and others to pass a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage, I learned that real leaders are willing to make personal sacrifices for the common good. I will bring that attitude of public service to the legislature.” The quote, which CNN’s KFile found during a review of Gabbard’s early career, shows how closely she aligned herself with her father’s mission at the time. Gabbard’s father ran The Alliance for Traditional Marriage<\/a>, a political action committee aimed at opposing pro-gay<\/a> lawmakers and legislation that organized and spent more than $100,000<\/a> to pass an amendment in 1998<\/a> that gave the Hawaii state legislature power to “reserve marriage to opposite-sex<\/a> couples<\/a>.” The amendment to the state’s constitution passed.’<\/p>\n

CNN added, of Mike Gabbard: ‘Gabbard’s father Mike was a prominent anti-gay<\/a> activist in Hawaii. He was also the director of Stop Promoting Homosexuality<\/a> and also served on the steering committees of the National Campaign to Protect Marriage and the Hawaii-based coalition, Save Traditional Marriage. He also once hosted<\/a> an anti-gay<\/a> radio show, Let’s Talk Straight Hawaii. The Alliance for Traditional Marriage called homosexuality<\/a> “unhealthy, abnormal behavior that should not be promoted or accepted in society.”’<\/p>\n

In 2013, Gabbard signed an amicus brief supporting Edie Windsor’s battle to defeat the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).<\/p>\n

In March 2019, Gabbard was asked by an audience member at a CNN town hall to explain her past views opposing gay<\/a> rights, and her support of gay<\/a> conversion therapy.<\/p>\n

Gabbard said she never “personally never supported any kind of conversion therapy. I never advocated<\/em> for conversion therapy. And frankly, I didn’t even know<\/em> what conversion therapy was until just the last few years.”<\/p>\n

“I was raised in a very socially conservative home,” she added. “My father is Catholic. He was a leading voice against gay<\/a> marriage in Hawaii during that time. Again, I was very young, but these are the values and beliefs that I grew up around.”<\/p>\n

Gabbard said that deploying to Middle East changed her views on gay<\/a> rights because she “saw firsthand the negative impact of a government attempting to act as a moral arbiter for their people…It caused me to confront that contradiction…but also how that contradicted some of the values and beliefs that I grew up with.”<\/p>\n

She added: “I also served with gay<\/a> and lesbian<\/a> and trans<\/a> service members and we became very good friends and knew in the most deep and visceral way that I would give my life for any one of them, and that they would do the same for me. Race or religion or orientation — these were things that didn’t matter, because we were focused on our mission of serving.”<\/p>\n

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