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<\/p>\nLog Cabin Republicans: We\u2019re In Contact With Trump Transition Team, Will Protect LGBT Rights<\/b><\/p>\n
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In a fundraising email to supporters Thursday night, Log Cabin Republicans President Gregory T. Angelo (above) claimed his group — and only his group — can save the LGBT community from President-elect Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Trump has pledged to repeal all of President Barack Obama’s executive orders<\/a>, including those protecting LGBT people. He’s vowed to appoint<\/a> right-wing Supreme Court justices who could at least partially overturn<\/a> marriage equality and said he’d sign<\/a> the horrific anti-LGBT “First Amendment Defense Act.”<\/p>\n Both Trump’s transition team<\/a> and his leaked list of potential cabinet appointees<\/a> are packed with anti-LGBT extremists in the mold of Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Hate groups including the National Organization for Marriage have already rolled out their agendas<\/a> for a Trump presidency, and LGBT advocates both in the US and abroad<\/a> are justifiably terrified. But according to Angelo, everything is under control.<\/p>\n “For the past three weeks, I’ve been in regular communication with the Trump Transition Team,” Angelo wrote. “While Log Cabin Republicans was working to have a relationship with our nation’s incoming chief executive, the LGBT Left was busy demonizing Donald Trump and fundraising off of bogeymen.”<\/p>\n Angelo went on to criticize “nonpartisan” LGBT groups for working against Republicans for decades, only to be faced with a President Trump and GOP majorities in Congress for the next four to eight years, which he said makes Log Cabin’s work “more important than it’s ever been.”<\/p>\n “Collectively, LGBT advocacy organizations on the Left have staff in the hundreds. Budgets in the millions<\/em>. And yet, they don’t have a single point of contact in the incoming Trump administration. Log Cabin Republicans does,” <\/em>Angelo wrote. “<\/em>While LGBT liberals were breathlessly lamenting this fact to the New York Times<\/em><\/a>, Log Cabin Republicans was quietly working behind-the-scenes to ensure the advances in LGBT freedom we have made thus far remain secure and continue in a Trump administration.”<\/p>\n Read the full email here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Log Cabin Republicans: We’re In Contact With Trump Transition Team, Will Protect LGBT Rights<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n