12 Aug
‘If Trump is to run as a Republican, he must embrace the zealots. And if he is to embrace the zealots, he must engage in that most time-honored tradition of the religious right: scapegoating the LGBT community.’ Photograph: Eric Thayer/Reuters
There’s something medieval about Trump’s uneasy partnership with his running mate Mike Pence – and I’m not just talking about Pence’s retrograde politics.
Partnering with the embattled governor of Indiana was a strategic marriage a feudal dynast could be proud of. Pence, though wildly unpopular following his Religious Freedom Restoration Act, is a born-again evangelical, a demographic Trump desperately needs to court.
Trump has admitted as much.
“I think if you look at one of the big reasons that I chose Mike – and one of the reasons is party unity,” Trump said the day he announced Pence as his VP pick. “I have to be honest.”
It’s a match made in hell. Trump was uneasy about Pence from the beginning. Reports surfaced that Trump wanted to change his mind up to the very last moment. In December 2015, Pence referred to Trump’s proposed Muslim travel ban as “offensive and unconstitutional”.
But if Trump is to run as a Republican, he must embrace the zealots. And if he is to embrace the zealots, he must engage in that most time-honored tradition of the religious right: scapegoating the LGBT community.
On the eve of the two-month anniversary of the Pulse massacre, where we lost 49 of our LGBT brothers and sisters, Trump is speaking at an anti-LGBT summit in Orlando called Rediscovering God in America Renewal Project.
According to Right Wing Watch, he is joining “Little” Marco Rubio in a lineup of speakers that make Kim Davis look like a “Love is Love” bumper sticker:
• David Barton, a Republican activist who believes HIV/Aids is God’s punishment for homosexuality and that God is actively preventing a cure to maintain it as such. He also believes anti-bullying policies in schools are attempts to indoctrinate students into homosexuality………….
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Swimming Manuel is first African American woman to win individual gold
Simone Manuel made history in the pool on Thursday night, as she became the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold in an individual swimming event……..
Tom Lutz and Andy Bull in Rio de Janeiro
“The gold medal wasn’t just for me. It was for people that came before me and inspired me to stay in the sport,” she said. “For people who believe that they can’t do it. I hope I’m an inspiration to others to get out there and try swimming. You might be pretty good at it.”
She also said she was aware of what her victory meant in the current political climate in the US. “It means a lot, especially with what is going on in the world today, some of the issues of police brutality,” Manuel said. “This win hopefully brings hope and change to some of the issues that are going on. My color just comes with the territory.”
Manuel was part of an extraordinary 100m freestyle final, in which she tied for first place with Canada’s Penny Oleksiak, who only turned 16 in June…………
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