Joe Biden says LGBT+ rights will be his number one priority if he wins 2020 election

[nitpicker]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/joe-biden-lgbt-rights-equality-act-ohio-2020-election-human-rights-campaign-a8940891.html

Joe Biden says LGBT+ rights will be his number one priority if he wins 2020 election

Maya Oppenheim | @mayaoppenheim |
17 hours ago |

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said enshrine LGBT+ protections into the nation’s labour and civil rights law would be his main priority if he wins the White House.

Passing the Equality Act “will be the first thing” he would “ask to be done” he said during a keynote address to hundreds of activists at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual Ohio gala on the first day of Pride Month.

The Equality Act would expand the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act to ban discrimination in employment, housing, jury selection and public accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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[Cha]

1. All the Human Rights Restored

and then some.. since trump and doormats have been systematically taking them away.

[ucrdem]

4. We've lost a lot of ground.

This is a very good thing !

[Cha]

7. Yes, the Democratic

Admin has to start somewhere, and why not with the people.. "LBGT, protections into the nation’s labour, and civil rights laws". That would include voting rights, too.

[LakeArenal]

26. Think this is a precursor to Pete VP?

Love Pete. This could well be his time in history!!!

[Dorn]

2. LGBT rights are important, they are NOT the number #1 issue facing the USA

Wake up Joe.

[Cha]

3. Not just "LGBT"..

"+ protections into the nation’s labour and civil rights laws". That would include voting rights, too.

I think Biden and his Team are quite WOKE.. thank You very much.

I have no doubt Biden and his Admin would be quite capable of Multi-tasking, too.

[ucrdem]

6. +1,000,000

They are important to the people who need them, and to their families. And that's a lot of people.

[brooklynite]

24. You know what's a larger number of people?

Everyone who would benefit from economic, healthcare, education and environmental policies. The policies that one the House back for us.

Can we agree that there's a lot of space between making LGBTQ rights your top priority and ignoring them completely?

[ucrdem]

51. Possibly but he has to start somewhere.

I'm glad he said it outright at the beginning because it's probably going to get buried by all those other issues as the campaign heats up.

[Demit]

18. The plus sign is part of the LGBT or LGBTQ nomenclature.

LGBTQ+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (or questioning) and others. Biden is talking specifically about gender-related issues.

[JudyM]

19. That's right.

[YOHABLO]

52. And therefore means ... EVERYBODY !

[Demit]

53. No.

[still_one]

56. It is hard for some to wrap their heads around the fact that you can have several number one or top

priorities.

Perhaps some do have a problem walking and chewing gum at the same time, but Joe Biden can handle multiple things

[Cha]

59. Thank You, still_one..

They see what they want to see.. looks like the majority knows what Biden can do!

[still_one]

60. ya know it Cha

[Go Vols]

49. +1

[Hortensis]

5. Good, but first thing begun is NOT the same as main priority.

Great that he will immediately move to codify these rights and put a stop to legalizing RW persecution.

Bad if some believe the poor wording in this reporting. This is part of an immensely important agenda to protect all of us and our nation from fascism, with the targeting of LGBTQ citizens among the earliest, faint portents of its viciousness.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. Molly Ivins

[watoos]

8. We all need protected,

I know that the states control elections, but there needs to be a push for paper ballots. If states decline, the voting machines need to be randomly, independently audited. If machines are found to be pre-programmed to flip votes, that election is nullified.

Voting is important, who counts the votes is more important. Plus there needs to be a movement away from gerrymandering. Democrats are getting more votes in Pa. where I vote yet we elect more Republicans because of gerrymandered districts.

[Raven123]

9. Didn't see references to that on his website, but sounds good

Need a Dem Senate

[George II]

15. He said it in his Human Rights Campaign Address on Saturday night.

[Raven123]

40. If I were Joe, I'd give my #1 legislative priority more website visibility

Its an item the GOP is going after. Perhaps it’s already there and I just missed it though.

[pdsimdars]

10. And working American's wages will remain stagnant for another 40 years . . . . .

[True Blue American]

11. This Country needs

Protection for all. We also need health care for all, an infrastructure bill. Jobs, decent wages.

[zentrum]

13. You said it.

[JudyM]

20. And that little thing called the environment, which is crashing.

[True Blue American]

22. So true!

The destruction all over the Country, Floods affecting millions, Tornados everywhere, destruction every where.

Yet DeWine and his Republican flunkies decide to ignore clean energy,, give subsidies to Nuclear and Coal!

[JudyM]

36. Socialism for corporations.

[JI7]

17. isn't it legal to fire people for being gay in some states ?

[AlexSFCA]

39. yes, in most states it is

[Cha]

21. Not if Democrats have anything to say

about it!

Why are you so down on Dems?

[LanternWaste]

41. It does not follow.

It does not follow (non-sequitur)
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Claim A is made. Evidence is presented for claim A. Therefore, claim C is true.

Example #1: People generally like to walk on the beach. Beaches have sand. Therefore, having sand floors in homes would be a great idea!




Hope this helps you to a more rational and critical mode of thought!!!

[Go Vols]

50. +1

[3Hotdogs]

12. Not medical care?

[True Blue American]

23. I mentioned Health care.

Missed climate change. Cleaning up our whole Country! That includes dumping the 1950’s gang in Government.

[zipplewrath]

14. DOMA

Didn't he vote FOR the "Defense of Marriage Act"?

Yeah, yeah, I know, he's "evolved". It's just that some of us didn't need to at the time. Nor on the Iraq War Resolution.

[JI7]

16. Paul wellstone voted for DOMA also. Biden was why Obama came out publicly

in support of same sex marriage before the 2012 election.

[shanny]

27. whataboutism

[JI7]

28. lame shit

[shanny]

30. my point exactly

[JI7]

34. yet you are the one bothered by taking a few seconds

to ask the equality act be passed.

[TwilightZone]

35. DOMA was the least objectionable of a bunch of bad options at the time.

Context is important.

[LanternWaste]

42. That's a new way of patting oneself on the back. Hope it doesn't hurt too badly!

"It's just that some of us didn't need to at the time."

[LongtimeAZDem]

25. If he's bringing that up this early, I bet he's thinking Buttigieg. He's testing the water.

If it plays, holy cow.

[vsrazdem]

38. Yea, like we need 2 white guys in there.

[LanternWaste]

43. What then should the precise number be?

Yea, like we need 2 white guys in there.

What then should the precise number be? And on what objective measure is that based on? (btw: that's a really great picture of a white guy you're backing...)

[vsrazdem]

44. I would like a little diversity. Since over half of the voters in this country are women, I think

its about time we at least had a woman vice president. I don't think that's too much to ask for.

[vsrazdem]

57. Unbecoming my ass. Too bad, so sad for wanting something different.

[mtnsnake]

58. +1

[shanny]

29. It's important, of course. #1? no effing way

[LakeArenal]

31. Anyone who thinks we can get more than a few important issues

in 2021 is fooling us. There is so much damage done. But equal rights for everyone is a great start.

[MrsCoffee]

32. Nothing wrong with making human rights a priority.

Goodness people.

[FreeState]

65. But its for gays...

We are use to being told to wait... believe me it happens all the time. "Supporters" who think basic rights can wait until they have everything they need.

[JI7]

33. why does it bother people that he would take the few seconds it takes

to ask that the equality act be passed ?

[JudyM]

37. We all want equality legislation. It's the concept of his calling that his top priority.

Instead of, for example, cutting fossil fuel subsidies...

[FreeState]

66. He was speaking to the Human Rights Campaign

His message would have been way off if he did that.

[JudyM]

68. So you think it's not the truth that equality is his top priority? That it was just situational?

If so, that’s troubling. I would like to be able to take him at his word.

[IndyOp]

46. If he can do that in a few seconds, then why is he stating it is his #1 priority?

If we don't get climate right - less than 12 years - then we cannot maintain progress or build on it.

Something one can do in a few seconds should not be listed as a priority.

IMHO

[IndyOp]

45. Climate. Climate. Climate. Climate. Less than 12 years. Make as many positive changes as possible.

Climate is #1. Everything else - maintaining social progress and building on it - depends on climate.

[Bleacher Creature]

63. This

I applaud Biden for prioritizing LGBTQ rights, but nothing he does is going to matter if there's no livable planet for people to receive such legal protections.

[progressoid]

70. this

[Skya Rhen]

72. Joe just confirmed that he will also be addressing Climate Change on day 1 by re-entering the Paris

Agreement and then will proceed with getting his plan for a Clean Energy Revolution enacted...

[IndyOp]

74. I am very happy to learn more about Joe's plans.

I will vote for - and donate to, and volunteer on behalf of - whoever gets the Democratic nomination.

Right now, I am in Buttigieg's camp because he is speaking about the urgency of the climate crisis - not change, crisis - and he is talking about re-purposing the military and generating jobs and wealth and...

[comradebillyboy]

47. That strikes me as an awfully narrow focus.

I'd like to see more focus on trade, immigration, universal health care and rebuilding our alliances.

[Honeycombe8]

64. There must be a political strategy there.

Methinks he sees Mayor Pete as a danger. He may be right.

[mtnsnake]

54. Is that why he called homophobic Mike Pence a decent guy?

[earthshine]

61. No, that was Dick Cheney ... You mean Biden said that of Pence, too?

https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-dick-cheney-comments-resurface-amid-2020-campaign-2019-5

"I actually like Dick Cheney, for real," Biden said at the time. "I get on with him. I think he's a decent man."

Dick Cheney, who told Sen. Lehey to go fuck himself.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/04/dick-cheney-could-not-be-prouder-of-that-time-he-told-pat-leahy-to-go-fuck-himself-on-the-senate-floor

[still_one]

55. Amazed that some seem bent out of shape because Biden says LGBTQ civil rights will be

a legislative priority in his administration.

The negativity sounds somewhat familiar as when Black Lives Matter came on the national scene, and some were quick to diminish it by saying "all lives matter"

right. It's important, but...…………….

and some of my best friends are...…...

When a candidate is talking to a Civil Rights group, what would one expect that candidate to talk about?

Of course making something a legislative priority does NOT exclude making other things a legislative priority also, but I guess some think that some can't walk and chew gum at the same time

[FreeState]

67. +1 n/t

[ecstatic]

62. I think it was probably just a gaffe.

One or two words can drastically alter the way a statement is interpreted. I like and support Biden, but let's be honest, if the statement falls flat on DU then it's a non-starter for the general population (which tends to be further to the right).

Anyway, I think our number 1 priority should be securing elections and making sure all citizens can vote so that everyone can have confidence in our election results. Nothing else matters if we can't get that part right, because each time the rethugs steal an election or disenfranchise voters, they undo everything we did anyway. It's time to lock it down so we can protect our progress going forward.

[ucrdem]

69. It's unexpected but it makes a lot of sense when you think about it.

Basically he's sending the message that he plans to carry on where Barack left off (remember he kicked off with the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay act in 2009) and going even further back, to 1964 where JFK left off (the 1964 Civil Rights act was sent to Congress in August 1963). And that's a pretty encouraging signal!

[Scurrilous]

73. K&R

[Cha]

75. K!

[bitterross]

76. I'm gay. I'd rather see climate change as #1

In the list things I'm worried about most, LGBTQ+ rights are there. Not at the top though. I'm more concerned about climate change, health care (which includes a lot of LGBTQ+ issues), infrastructure, and others.

[Cha]

79. I think Biden is quite capable of multi-tasking and knows how

important the Climate Crisis is.

But, this is important, too..

Clarence Thomas says marriage equality ruling should be overturned

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12200550

[tymorial]

77. I am a bisexual and proud of my community but this is not the most important issue

The violence and hatred are a symptom of a larger issue. There is also the matter of repairing our relationship with our allies.

This is pandering.

[Cha]

78. No, it's Not "pandering".. That's insulting.

It's important.. and I'm sure Biden is quite capable of multi-tasking.

Clarence Thomas says marriage equality ruling should be overturned

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12200550

[tymorial]

81. Number one priority?

Its not and it shouldnt be. As bad as we have it (some more than others), the illegally detained migrants have it far far worse. The unarmed black men and women being shot by police have it worse, most are dead. The victims of rampant gun violence have it worse.

Look, I do like Biden but on the surface, his statement makes no sense other than for it to he pandering.

[Indygram]

80. Beto's Plan is better

https://betoorourke.com/lgbtq/

[Gothmog]

82. Joe Biden is amazing on this issue

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