{"id":1402,"date":"2019-03-27T04:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2019-03-27T04:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:22:54","slug":"in-first-interview-since-election-trump-promises-he-wont-overturn-marriage-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"In First Interview Since Election, Trump Promises He Won&rsquo;t Overturn Marriage Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>In the wake of Donald Trump\u2019s election, there has been a wave of fear through a number of traditionally marginalized communities, ranging from women, to minorities, Muslims, and the LGBTQ community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, during his first interview as president-elect, Trump told CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d that the issue of marriage equality is settled in his mind and that he supports the LGBTQ community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s irrelevant because it was already settled. It\u2019s law,\u201d Trump told Leslie Stahl. \u201cIt was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean, it\u2019s done. I\u2019m fine with that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Close observers of politics will note that Trump has been a supporter of gay rights, at least in his rhetoric, throughout his campaign. He was the first Republican to have a member of the LGBTQ community give a keynote at the Republican National Convention and in the campaign\u2019s final week, even help up a rainbow flag offered up to him by LGBTQ Republicans. He also named that same keynote speaker, Silicon Valley giant Peter Thiel, to be a member of his transition team. Theil is a despised by the mainstream media because of his lawsuit that effectively ended the news site Gawker, which has colored his role with the Trump campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In fact, Trump appeared to bristle slightly during his interview when asked about members of the LGBTQ community being fearful in the wake of his election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd yet I mention them at the Republican National Convention and everybody said that was so great. I have been a supporter,\u201d he insisted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Still, most of the names floated for a potential role in Trump\u2019s administration have been openly hostile to the LGBTQ community, so many are taking his personal moderate stance with skepticism. But his comments on \u201c60 Minutes\u201d could be the opening to some much needed cultural healing if he follows through on them with action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\/youtube]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Donald Trump\u2019s election, there has been a wave of fear through a number of traditionally marginalized communities, ranging from women, to minorities, Muslims, and the LGBTQ community. However, during his first interview as president-elect, Trump told CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d that the issue of marriage equality is settled in his mind and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}