HRC has a timeline of Biden's LGBTQ measures.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2024
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Respect for marriage act was good, but I want to see Biden and congressional democrats (and moderate republicans) do more to protect Americans from losing their rights. That means human rights should have precedence over religious rights. I'll be voting for dems this election for this and other reasons. We need to keep our democracy too.
TIL the HRC supports the genocide in Gaza. Damn.
It's sad that Americans are stuck choosing between a genocide supporter and Hitler 0.96
We need a Parliament. Or at least some form of democracy
Why does a vote for a war criminal necessarily imply a vote for war crimes? Trump is also a war criminal, and there are only three options (vote: biden, neither, trump) -- all three will result in a war criminal in office.
This is an earnest question btw. I don't understand your perspective.
I'm criticizing them not for who they vote for but who they endorse. Thats is just to say that who you vote for doesnt need to match who you publicly endorse. Its possible to vote for the lesser of two evils and not to publicly support him.
That said, Jill Stein and Cornel West are also people that you can endorse and/or vote for. As well as "none" for one or both.
Pragmatically, they're endorsing the lesser of two evils to encourage people to vote for the lesser of two evils. They think Biden being in office will be much better for LGBT people than Trump will be, to the point that it's worth it to spend millions to encourage votes for Biden. Third parties are very unlikely to win, so it's not worth it; they could spend millions on some other project to more directly help LGBT people.
If you think it's OK to vote for the lesser of two evils, then I don't see why you draw the line at endorsing the lesser of two evils.
The ethical thing to do is not to endorse someone who is funding a genocide, no matter how much he helps your marginalized group
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The spending blitz, shared first with NBC News, will cover the six key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
In his first term, Biden advanced the cause by codifying same-sex marriage nationwide, allowing transgender people in the military and directing agencies to support LGBTQ equality.
He has encouraged a growing and well-organized conservative backlash against some parts of the pro-LGBTQ movement, with schools, women’s sports and public bathrooms turning into fronts in the culture war.
A major survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that support for LGBTQ rights fell slightly last year, marking the first year-to-year decline across three measures after consistently rising.
That finding is consistent with recent surveys that show Biden struggling with young and nonwhite voters, a key reason he trails Trump in a head-to-head matchup in many national and swing-state polls.
The HRC president said part of its effort will be to convince voters not to support third-party candidates, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has said he favors same-sex marriage but criticized gender-affirming care for young people.
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A constant problem with autotldr is that it uses pronouns which refer to someone who hasn't been mentioned yet in the abridged article. It makes it look like Biden "has encouraged a growing and well-organized conservative backlash" when that makes no sense. In the original article, "He" actually refers to Donald Trump, but autotldr skipped over the sentence that introduced Trump's involvement. Similarly, "That finding" does not refer to the major survey mentioned in the previous sentence.
Honestly I hate this bot and I downvote it every time I see it. This sort of thing is easy to catch when it says something wildly out of character like this. But the same thing happens all the time in ways that are not-so-easy to spot, and wildly misleading to readers. And the pronoun thing is one tiny example. This bot might as well be selecting sentences at random, for all the important context it omits.
Just read the original article or skip it. Please don't rely on a program that butchers the original article for the sake of making it shorter. This is the kind of thing that makes us lazy and vulnerable to misinformation.