{"id":15372,"date":"2020-08-30T08:45:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T08:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/?p=15372"},"modified":"2020-09-15T12:08:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T12:08:27","slug":"unwanted-criticism-richard-grenell-wants-to-dry-up-lgbtiq-organisation-financially","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/unwanted-criticism-richard-grenell-wants-to-dry-up-lgbtiq-organisation-financially\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwanted criticism: Richard Grenell wants to dry up LGBTIQ* organisation financially"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because Human Rights Campaign criticised Richard Grenell&#8217;s style of politics, the former US ambassador to Germany wants to cut off the organisation&#8217;s funding. He publicly called on companies to boycott America&#8217;s largest LGBTIQ* organisation and stop giving them donations.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Grenell had claimed in a video of the Log Cabin Republicans, America&#8217;s largest association of conservative LGBTIQ*s, on August 19 that Donald Trump was <a href=\"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/us-election-campaign-will-queer-votes-decide-about-the-presidency\/\">&#8220;the most gay-friendly president in American history&#8221;<\/a>. But the video&#8217;s core message was an attack on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Grenell claimed,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Trump has done more to promote gay and lesbian rights in three years than Joe Biden has done in over 40 years in Washington&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This absurd adulation of Donald Trump &#8211; Human Rights Campaign (HRC) could not leave it at that. In a short clip, the organisation listed some of Joe Biden&#8217;s efforts for the rights of the queer community, thus proving, on the basis of well-founded facts, that Grenell&#8217;s statements are not true, but are indeed absurd lies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Absurd&#039; Lie Trump is Most &#039;Pro-Gay&#039; President\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yA4R26i5t0I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Richard &#8216;Gaslight&#8217;1 Grenell&#8221;, as he is now called by HRC, took the counterstatement as an opportunity to boycott the organisation. He suggested that companies should donate the same amount to conservative groups like the &#8220;Log Cabin Republicans&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Companies that give money to the Human Rights Campaign support ugly partisanship,&#8221; the 53-year-old wrote in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrap\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Corporations who give money to Human Rights Campaign are supporting ugly partisanship. <\/p>\n<p>US businesses should stop giving to HRC or give the same amount of money to conservative gay groups like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LogCabinGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LogCabinGOP<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nlPgjQpR8g\">https:\/\/t.co\/nlPgjQpR8g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardGrenell\/status\/1298822237278142467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The fact is that gay rights were never part of Donald Trump&#8217;s agenda. The Washington Post has compiled a selection of anti-gay policies of the Trump administration that we do not want to withhold from you.<\/p>\n<p>Trump signed a bill that undermined Obama&#8217;s anti-discrimination protection for LGBTIQ* workers.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice under Trump argued that an important federal civil rights law did not protect workers from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, thus once again taking a stand against a decision made under Obama.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration took a number of steps to undermine the rights of transgender Americans, including a ban on transgender troops in the military, the removal of anti-discrimination protections and the adoption of a decree defining gender as the biological sex of a person.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Department of State appealed against the decision of a federal judge to recognise the US citizenship of a young girl who was being carried out for a gay couple by a surrogate mother in Canada. Although the girl&#8217;s parents are legally married, the State Department claims that because the daughter was born in Canada by a surrogate mother, she was &#8220;born illegitimate&#8221; and therefore is not entitled to birthright.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump is No Friend to the LGBTQ Community.\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9F0b1jcJr7E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>HRC has also published another video on YouTube. It features queer people from all over America who provide solid arguments why Trump is by no means a friend of the LGBTIQ* community.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;Gaslighting&#8221; is a form of emotional manipulation and brainwashing. It is a form of emotional manipulation and brainwashing in which someone takes advantage of a relationship of trust to place themselves in a position of power and to make their counterpart doubt themselves through targeted statements and actions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Human Rights Campaign criticised Richard Grenell&#8217;s style of politics, the former US ambassador to Germany wants to cut off the organisation&#8217;s funding. 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