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Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on August 11, 2024 CNN's State of the Union
JD Vance holds “anti-marriage-equality views.”
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By Grace Abels • August 16, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on December 15, 2023 a Concord, New Hampshire Town Hall
U.S. tax dollars “have gone to promote transgenderism in Bangladesh.”
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By Grace Abels • January 12, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on December 6, 2023 the fourth Republican presidential primary debate
Discussing gender-affirming surgical care for minors, said that Sweden “shut it down.”
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By Grace Abels • December 18, 2023
Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten
stated on September 20, 2023 an X post
"Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class.”
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September 22, 2023
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 12, 2018 a blog post
"Republicans vote to make it legal nationwide to ban gays and lesbians from adopting."
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By Bill McCarthy • July 24, 2018
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on July 26, 2017 a press release
"More than 15,000 transgender Americans" are "serving in the military today."  
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July 26, 2017
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Says Indiana Gov. Mike Pence "advocated diverting taxpayer dollars to so-called conversion therapy."
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By Chris Nichols • December 2, 2016
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on October 11, 2016 a debate
"Gov. (Pat) McCrory took $500,000 directly out of the disaster relief fund. And you know what it’s for? House Bill 2."
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By Will Doran • October 19, 2016
Tim Moore
Tim Moore
stated on May 5, 2016 a conversation with reporters
Says 80 percent of North Carolinians support "the concept that men should not be in women’s restrooms, changing rooms, bathrooms, etc."
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By Will Doran • May 14, 2016
Paul
Paul "Skip" Stam
stated on April 11, 2016 a newspaper interview
"There are 31 other states and 10,000 other cities that have the same type of policies that we just passed," referring to North Carolina’s House Bill 2.
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By Will Doran • April 13, 2016
Phil Berger
Phil Berger
stated on March 31, 2016 a Facebook post
"Attorney General Roy Cooper refuses to do his job" by not defending House Bill 2 in a lawsuit.
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By Will Doran • April 7, 2016
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on March 26, 2016 a list of rebuttals to criticism over the law
Despite the passage of HB2, "towns, cities and counties in North Carolina are still allowed to set stricter non-discrimination policies for their own employees if they choose."
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By Will Doran • March 31, 2016
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on March 26, 2016 a list of rebuttals to criticism over the law
"Will (HB2) threaten federal funding for public schools under Title IX? No, according to a federal court which has looked at a similar issue."
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By Will Doran • March 29, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"The states have always defined marriage."
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By Lauren Carroll • December 13, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 1, 2015 an interview
Says Bill Clinton signed a law "very similar to," and Barack Obama voted for a law "something like," Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act.    
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April 13, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 30, 2015 an interview with Hugh Hewitt
"Florida has a law like (Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act)."
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By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • March 31, 2015
Roy Moore
Roy Moore
stated on February 12, 2015 an interview with CNN
Alabamians "haven’t changed their opinion" on same-sex marriage since voting to ban it in 2006.
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By Steve Contorno • February 13, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 23, 2014 a speech at Catholic University
"Having an active father makes children 98 percent more likely to graduate from college."
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By Amy Sherman • July 29, 2014
Florida Stop Common Core Coalition
Florida Stop Common Core Coalition
stated on March 19, 2014 a letter to supporters
For educational testing, Florida "has chosen a company that has a significant history of promoting identification of the GLBT lifestyle for children as young as seven years old."
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By Jeffrey S. Solochek • March 24, 2014
Leticia Van de Putte
Leticia Van de Putte
stated on June 14, 2013 an opinion article
Says residents of Texas and San Antonio can be fired or denied jobs because they are gay.
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By Sue Owen • July 26, 2013
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