Adam laxalt lgbtq rights
Early voting begins in Nevada on October 22, and voters will have the a choice between candidates of starkly different priorities and vaules. Approximately 5.5% of Nevada’s population is LGBTQ, the third-highest rate in the country. And a sizeable portion of the community, 22% of LGBTQ adults in Nevada, are raising children, making LGBTQ rights and protections integral to life in the state—and making the LGBTQ electorate a necessary component to winning an election.
Silver Express Equality, Nevada’s statewide Queer civil rights organization, and GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, released a fact sheet on the LGBTQ records of candidates running for office in Nevada this November.
Silver State Equality and GLAAD urge the media to include LGBTQ+ people and issues in their coverage this campaign season and to ask the candidates about their public statements, policies, and proposals for LGBTQ+ Nevadans. Polling and turnout analysis from the 2020 election indicate that LGBTQ voters played a deciding role in the victory of Joe Biden for President and in battleground states and districts that made the deciding difference in key races that
Too Close To Call
When the Supreme Court draft belief to overturn Roe v. Wade leaked six weeks ago, one of the myriad questions that percolated amid the fallout was what other established federal rights might be in the line of sight of the six conservative jurists.
“If Roe Falls Is Same-Sex marriage Next?,” askedThe Times.
The speculative, if not conclusive stream of perception was: Completely possible.
“While some rights are pretty clearly protected in the Constitution (speech, press, religion, for example), you won’t discover the words ‘abortion’ or ‘gay marriage,’” noted a column inThe Idaho Statesman.
Even President Joe Biden weighed in to warn that because the draft notion indicated “there’s no such thing as a right to privacy…mark my words: They are going to go after the Supreme Court decision on queer marriage.”
Gay rights really haven’t been a burning political issue ever since the High Court guaranteed the legality for gay and lesbians to wed seven years ago this month in 2015. Democrats boisterously celebrated the decision and Republicans, for the most part, were happy to wipe their hands of the thorny question, shrugging that the issue was now s
ICYMI: Nevada U.S. Senate Candidate Adam Laxalt, Virulent Opponent of LGBTQ+ Equality, Gives ‘Kudos’ to Florida Gov. DeSantis for Signing Discriminatory ‘Don't Say Homosexual or Trans’ Bill
Earlier this week, Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt vocally endorsed yet another radical anti-LGBTQ+ policy, continuing his career-long attack on the community when he praised Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for signing the embattled ‘Don't Say Queer or Trans’ bill into law. The law, which DeSantis signed earlier this week, stigmatizes LGBTQ+ kids and families, prevents teachers from providing a sound classroom by banning teachers at all grade levels from talking about Diverse issues or people, and undermines existing protections for LGBTQ+ students.
LISTEN TO LAXALT’S COMMENTS HERE
WHAT U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE LAXALT SAYS ABOUT DESANTIS’S VILE ‘DON'T Speak GAY OR TRANS’ BILL:
“Well, look, I think what you've seen over the last few days out of Disney and the rest of the woke-left army is proof positive of why DeSantis set forward this bill and why they needed this bill. I mean, why in the world? Are they fighting so tough for the ability to indoctrinate kids from age, kindergarten to
State of Nevada Archives: on Civil Rights
A 1996 "political courage test" published by VoteSmart.org shows Sisolak, then running for a Henderson-area state Senate seat, did not back the legalization of same-sex marriages.
Adam Laxalt: 1996: opposed same-sex marriage; 2018: supports equality Sisolak directed his response toward progressive primary voters, stressing his encourage for women and minority groups without denying that his stances had shifted on some issues. "This was a survey from 22 years ago," Sisolak wrote in a statement to the Reno Gazette Journal. "Like many people, you learn and grow as times change. And I think that's important."
The VoteSmart questionnaire shows Sisolak did not support same sex marriages in Nevada. Today, he says he couldn't be happier that marriage equality is the law of the land.
Sisolak's campaign cited those matching remarks as evidence of his back for the LGBT community, adding in a statement that there was still more to be done to shield that and other minority groups.
Source: Reno Gazette-Journal on 2018 Nevada governor race Jan 29, 2018 Q: Support g
Adam Laxalt: Religious right of no business with queer couples HRC Responds to Adam Laxalt’s Continued Attempts to Demonize the LGBTQ Group
by Ianthe Metzger •
LAS VEGAS -- Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, transgender and homosexual (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, responded to gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt’s new ads attacking his opponent Steve Sisolak for his support for issues like LGBTQ equality.
“Adam Laxalt’s obsession with attacking the LGBTQ community has always been both morally repugnant and politically perplexing,” said HRC Nevada State Director Briana Escamilla. “In a state with 100,000 LGBTQ voters, where a strong majority of citizens help marriage equality and fundamental civil rights, Laxalt has nonetheless repeatedly attacked LGBTQ people to endeavor and drum up votes. From his opposition to protections for LGBTQ youth facing discrimination at school, to pushing 'license to discriminate' policies, to his attempts to rip health care away from thousands of Nevadans, Adam Laxalt is the antithesis of Nevada standards. That’s why, over the next 100 days we are going to battle like hell to elect Steve Sisolak, who i
