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Matt Walsh
stated on February 8, 2023 in a Tennessee State House Committee Hearing:

“The youth suicide rate has increased exponentially alongside trans affirmation. Trans affirmation causes the suicide rate, not the other way around.”

By Grace Abels • March 8, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on January 1, 2023 in an image shared on Instagram:

“All ‘gender affirming care’ for children is 100% experimental. There are zero long term studies on the effects the drugs and surgeries will have on them.”

By Madison Czopek • January 17, 2023
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on August 8, 2022 in News release:

Says “Tim Michels doesn’t think gay people should be out in public.”

By Madeline Heim • September 2, 2022
Glenn Youngkin
stated on July 10, 2022 in a TV interview.:

“In Virginia, we actually do protect same-sex marriage.”

By Warren Fiske • July 15, 2022
TikTok posts
stated on January 30, 2021 in a sound:

"Schools are trying to make a law that teachers can see girls' private parts to make sure they're not trans."

By Daniel Funke • February 17, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on October 14, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Chick-fil-A funds the National Christian Foundation, which "paid a preacher to go to Uganda and help their lawmakers" with a bill that would impose the death penalty for homosexuality.

By Daniel Funke • October 25, 2019
Pat McCrory
stated on October 25, 2017 in a radio appearance:

The North Carolina bathroom bill "was really never repealed."

By Paul Specht • November 22, 2017
Mark Pocan
stated on January 11, 2017 in a letter:

Says Betsy DeVos and her family "have donated extensively to groups which promote the idea that students who identify as LGBT must undergo 'conversion' therapy."

By Tom Kertscher • January 25, 2017
Terry McAuliffe
stated on November 30, 2016 in a radio interview.:

"We would be just like North Carolina with HB2-like (transgender bathroom) legislation. It actually passed our chamber and I vetoed it."

By Warren Fiske • December 5, 2016
John Skvarla
stated on October 24, 2016 in a speech in Charlotte:

Says HB2 "hasn’t moved the needle one iota" on North Carolina’s economy.

By Will Doran • October 28, 2016
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on July 20, 2016 in a news release:

Says Gov. Mike Pence and Rep. Mike Coffman "take the same positions on a number of things ... Coffman and Pence oppose equal rights for LGBT Americans."

By Alan Gathright • July 27, 2016
Pat McCrory
stated on May 24, 2016 in a radio interview on Charlotte's WBT:

Says the Human Rights Campaign is secretly funded

By Will Doran • May 27, 2016
Ted Cruz
stated on April 22, 2016 in an attack ad:

Says Donald Trump thinks "a grown man pretending to be a woman (should) be allowed to use the women's restroom."

By Linda Qiu • April 25, 2016
Pat McCrory
stated on April 17, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"The city of Charlotte passed a bathroom ordinance mandate on every private-sector employer in Charlotte."

By Linda Qiu • April 17, 2016
LGBT Progress
stated on March 23, 2016 in a tweet:

North Carolina spent "almost as much as it spends on government rape crisis programs in a year" to convene a special session for HB2.

By Will Doran • April 1, 2016
Ben Carson
stated on September 22, 2015 in an interview with Fox's "The Kelly File":

There is not "one of the Muslim nations" that doesn't have "discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, subjugation of other religious beliefs."

By Lauren Carroll • September 25, 2015
David Ralston
stated on July 13, 2015 in an interview:

There is debate among constitutional scholars about whether the First Amendment will continue to protect faith leaders from being forced to perform marriages against their religious beliefs.

By Nancy Badertscher • August 12, 2015
Ted Cruz
stated on June 28, 2015 in an interview with NPR News:

Says states not directly involved in the gay marriage lawsuits that reached the Supreme Court "are not bound" by the court’s ruling.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 31, 2015
Ted Cruz
stated on June 29, 2015 in an interview on NPR:

The Supreme Court’s views "are radically out of step with public opinion" regarding its decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

By Lauren Carroll • July 1, 2015
David Boies
stated on April 8, 2014 in the Civil Rights Summit at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library:

Every one of "more than 30 federal judges who have considered the issue of gay and lesbian rights since last June… ruled that marriage is a constitutional right and you cannot deprive individual citizens of that right based on their sexual orientation."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 16, 2014
Charlie Crist
stated on January 28, 2014 in a press conference:

"I always supported civil unions."

By Amy Sherman • February 7, 2014
Louie Gohmert
stated on July 15, 2013 in an interview.:

Says a Justice Department memo "directs that you must openly embrace gay marriage and homosexuality."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 31, 2013
Bill Johnson
stated on June 27, 2013 in a news release:

Most Americans want "traditional marriage," as defined by the Defense of Marriage Act.

By Stephen Koff • July 10, 2013
Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops
stated on February 19, 2013 in a committee hearing on domestic partnerships:

"In other jurisdictions where (a domestic partnership registry) has been enacted, we have seen that fewer people enter into marriage."

By Katie Sanders • February 22, 2013
Texas Values
stated on November 19, 2012 in an interview aired by Austin’s KTBC-TV, Channel 7:

Says legislation supported by gay rights activists would strip "mother" and "father" from future Texas birth certificates.

By W. Gardner Selby • November 30, 2012
Glenn Grothman
stated on September 28, 2012 in a news release:

Says Tammy Baldwin introduced a bill that would require doctors and other health care workers to ask patients, "including young children, whether they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or if they know their gender identity."

By Tom Kertscher • October 23, 2012
Martin Frost
stated on August 12, 2011 in a column in "POLITICO":

Says Rick Perry flip-flopped on gay marriage by first saying it was a state’s rights issue and then saying he was in favor of a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

By Martha M. Hamilton • August 19, 2011
Bill Fischer
stated on April 5, 2011 in a Providence Journal story:

"Full marriage equality [would provide same-sex couples] with about 1,700 rights."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 17, 2011
Bill McCollum
stated on July 15, 2010 in a campaign mail piece.:

"Rick Scott's company is partners with Playboy in a social networking website that has community pages specifically geared towards gay dating."

By Aaron Sharockman • July 19, 2010
Nathan Deal
stated on May 12, 2010 in in a statement published in the Rome News Tribune.:

"Handel endorsed gay adoption" in 2003 when she was running for chairwoman of the Fulton County Commission.

By Jim Tharpe • June 7, 2010

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