Latest Fact-Checks In LGBTQ

Clear
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on April 17, 2016 in interview on Meet The Press with Chuck Todd
The Human Rights Campaign is "more powerful than the NRA."
False
By Will Doran • April 21, 2016
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on April 17, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"The city of Charlotte passed a bathroom ordinance mandate on every private-sector employer in Charlotte."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • April 17, 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.
Half-True
By Will Doran • April 13, 2016
Dan Forest
Dan Forest
stated on April 6, 2016 a tweet
Charlotte’s anti-discrimination ordinance would have "opened all bathrooms to all sexes at all times" if it hadn’t been overturned.
False
By Will Doran • April 8, 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.
Half-True
By Will Doran • April 7, 2016
LGBT Progress
LGBT Progress
stated on March 23, 2016 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.
Mostly False
By Will Doran • April 1, 2016
Chris Sgro
Chris Sgro
stated on March 17, 2016 a speech urging Charlotte's anti-discrimination ordinance be left intact
"There have not been any public safety issues" in cities that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.
Mostly True
By Will Doran • April 1, 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."
Half-True
By Will Doran • March 31, 2016
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on March 28, 2016 a speech in Clayton, N.C.
"We have not taken away any rights that have currently existed in any city in North Carolina" with the passage of HB2.
False
By Will Doran • March 30, 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."
Half-True
By Will Doran • March 29, 2016
Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Granholm
stated on January 24, 2016 an appearance on ABC's 'This Week'
When a Gallup poll asked about presidential candidate characteristics, "When they get to the question on, 'Would you vote for a socialist,' it is even less popular than voting for atheists."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 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."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • December 13, 2015
Constitutional Rights PAC
Constitutional Rights PAC
stated on October 14, 2015 a news release
Paul Ryan "is one of only six House Republicans who voted for Teddy Kennedy's bill to force Christian employers to hire LGBT employees."
False
October 28, 2015
Elton John
Elton John
stated on October 13, 2015 CNN
HIV/AIDS is "dramatically on the rise in the U.S. South."
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • October 19, 2015
Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
stated on September 27, 2015 a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says "Bernie Sanders was there when it came to (same-sex) marriage 20 years ago. ... He was there when it wasn't popular."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • September 29, 2015
Georgia Voice
Georgia Voice
stated on September 17, 2015 a news story
No openly gay man has ever been elected to the Georgia Legislature.
True
By April Hunt • September 28, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 22, 2015 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."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • September 25, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on September 7, 2015 a Facebook post
Says the case of a Texas judge who refused to perform heterosexual weddings exposes a double standard in the case against Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.
False
By Jon Greenberg • September 14, 2015
David Ralston
David Ralston
stated on July 13, 2015 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.
Mostly False
By Nancy Badertscher • August 12, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 28, 2015 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.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 31, 2015
Previous Next