{"id":37891,"date":"2016-05-20T18:21:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T22:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/yesterdays-gop-switcheroo-on-lgbt-equality-was-more-heinous-than-we-thought\/"},"modified":"2016-05-20T18:21:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T22:21:26","slug":"yesterdays-gop-switcheroo-on-lgbt-equality-was-more-heinous-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/yesterdays-gop-switcheroo-on-lgbt-equality-was-more-heinous-than-we-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday\u2019s GOP Switcheroo on LGBT Equality Was More Heinous Than We Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Yesterday\u2019s GOP Switcheroo on LGBT Equality Was More Heinous Than We Thought<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Ci1HyTLWgAA3Ile.jpg?resize=600%2C417\" alt=\"Sean Patrick Maloney amendment\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Ci1HyTLWgAA3Ile.jpg?w=600 600w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Ci1HyTLWgAA3Ile.jpg?resize=300%2C209 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>Chaos erupted Thursday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives after 7 Republicans switched their votes from &ldquo;yea&rdquo; to &ldquo;nay&rdquo; on an amendment that would have protected LGBT workers from discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment was introduced by openly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) who went into the vote with enough support to pass the amendment. However, at the last minute, Republican leadership&nbsp;began&nbsp;strong-arming members to switch their votes. After the amendment was defeated by only one vote,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/05\/republicans-block-lgbt\/\">Democratic lawmakers chanted&nbsp;&ldquo;shame!&rdquo; at&nbsp;Republicans.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>While much has been made of the&nbsp;7 GOP members who switched their votes on Thursday, it turns out there were actually 30 Republican members who at one point supported the same provisions in Maloney&rsquo;s amendment before they voted against them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/politics\/really-30-republicans-switched-sides-lgbt\">Roll Call reports:&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, 60 Republicans voted for a similar amendment upholding&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/policy\/lgbt-executive-order-signed-by-obama\">President Barack Obama&rsquo;s 2014 executive order<\/a>&nbsp;banning federal contractors from making hiring decisions that discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The amendment, which California Democratic Rep. Scott Peters attached to a transportation spending bill, was&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2015\/roll326.xml\">adopted 241-184<\/a>&nbsp;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>David Stacy, government affairs director at the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT advocacy group, said he was &ldquo;very surprised&rdquo; to see so many Republicans shift their vote on &ldquo;almost identical&rdquo; amendments.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve heard for a while now from House Republican leadership that they&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/home\/will-pro-lgbt-stands-hurt-gop-senators\">didn&rsquo;t want to be engaged in attacking LBGT people<\/a>&nbsp;this way,&rdquo; Stacy said. &ldquo;But instead of House leadership trying to diffuse this, they seem to be ratcheting up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a list of the 30 Republicans who supported the Peters amendment but voted against the Maloney amendment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dan Benishek of Michigan<\/li>\n<li>Susan W. Brooks of Indiana<\/li>\n<li>Larry Bucshon of Indiana<\/li>\n<li>Ken Calvert of California<\/li>\n<li>Paul Cook of California<\/li>\n<li>Rodney Davis of Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Denham of California<\/li>\n<li>Sean P. Duffy of Wisconsin<\/li>\n<li>Frank C. Guinta of New Hampshire<\/li>\n<li>Darrell Issa of California<\/li>\n<li>Evan H. Jenkins of West Virginia<\/li>\n<li>David Joyce of Ohio<\/li>\n<li>Adam Kinzinger of Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Steve Knight of California<\/li>\n<li>David B. McKinley of West Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Luke Messer of Indiana<\/li>\n<li>Dan Newhouse of Washington<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Poliquin of Maine<\/li>\n<li>James B. Renacci of Ohio<\/li>\n<li>Scott Rigell of Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Dana Rohrabacher of California<\/li>\n<li>Todd Rokita of Indiana<\/li>\n<li>Tom Rooney of Florida<\/li>\n<li>Ed Royce of California<\/li>\n<li>Pat Tiberi of Ohio<\/li>\n<li>David Valadao of California<\/li>\n<li>Greg Walden of Oregon<\/li>\n<li>Mimi Walters of California<\/li>\n<li>Don Young of Alaska<\/li>\n<li>Todd Young of Indiana<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gay Republican group the Log Cabin Republicans denounced&nbsp;House Republicans for blocking Maloney&rsquo;s amendment:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gregory-T.-Angelo-Log-Cabin-Republicans.jpg?resize=195%2C195\" alt=\"Gregory-T.-Angelo-Log-Cabin-Republicans\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">&ldquo;During an election year in which voters across the country are crying out because they feel our country&rsquo;s political system is at best broken and at worst rigged, the sham on the floor of the United States House of Representatives yesterday spearheaded by Leader McCarthy played up everything wrong with congress today,&rdquo; Log Cabin Republicans President Gregory T. Angelo stated. &ldquo;Beyond overriding an executive order that existed under President George W. Bush, yesterday&rsquo;s actions on the House floor defy the repeated promises of House Leadership to operate under regular order and with transparency. Log Cabin Republicans commends the 29 Republicans who refused to succumb to strong-arm tactics and voted for the amendment, and demands those congressmembers who perpetuated this fraudulence be held accountable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Log Cabin Republicans to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader\">@GOPLeader<\/a>: &#8220;Shame!&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NDAA?src=hash\">#NDAA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5skdkdZugJ\">t.co\/5skdkdZugJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LogCabinRepublicans (@LogCabinGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LogCabinGOP\/status\/733698346393739265\">May 20, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/05\/sean-patrick-maloney-amendment\/\">Yesterday&rsquo;s GOP Switcheroo on LGBT Equality Was More Heinous Than We Thought<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/\">Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=u2Pdxr8zs1c:NERy3XUqKqM:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=u2Pdxr8zs1c:NERy3XUqKqM:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=u2Pdxr8zs1c:NERy3XUqKqM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=u2Pdxr8zs1c:NERy3XUqKqM:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?i=u2Pdxr8zs1c:NERy3XUqKqM:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=u2Pdxr8zs1c:NERy3XUqKqM:cGdyc7Q-1BI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=u2Pdxr8zs1c:NERy3XUqKqM:YwkR-u9nhCs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=YwkR-u9nhCs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~4\/u2Pdxr8zs1c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/u2Pdxr8zs1c\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/u2Pdxr8zs1c\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday\u2019s GOP Switcheroo on LGBT Equality Was More Heinous Than We Thought Chaos erupted Thursday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives after 7 Republicans switched their votes from &ldquo;yea&rdquo; to &ldquo;nay&rdquo; on an amendment that would have protected LGBT workers from discrimination. The amendment was introduced by openly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> Rep. 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