White House Blames “Radical Left” For Rise Of Anti-LGBT+ Hate Groups

A new report has found that the number of anti-LGBT+ hate groups has risen 43% in the period between 2018-2019 in the United States, and the White House is blaming the “radical left”.

“Despite a slight decline from the all-time high of 1,020 hate groups in 2018, the SPLC documented an increase in the number of white nationalist, anti-LGBTQ and anti-immigrant hate groups,” Southern Poverty Law Centre’s (SPLC) report states.

“Anti-LGBTQ groups have become intertwined with the Trump administration, and — after years of civil rights progress and growing acceptance among the broader American public — anti-LGBTQ sentiment within the Republican Party is rising,” SLPC’s report states. “Groups that vilify the LGBTQ community, in fact, represented the fastest-growing sector among hate groups in 2019.”

SPLC notes that although Trump “promised during his campaign to be a ‘real friend’ to the LGBTQ community, he has fully embraced anti-LGBTQ hate groups and their agenda of dismantling federal protections and resources for LGBTQ people,” pointing to the Department of Justice having filed “amicus briefs with the Supreme Court in support of anti-LGBTQ lawsuits, some of which were brought by the anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom.”

But, according to ‘Metro Weekly’, a gay White House spokesman, Judd Deere, dismissed SPLC as a “far-left smear organization” and called comments in the report tying Trump to the rise in hate groups “disgusting.” Deere stated that Trump has “fought for inclusion and repeatedly condemned hate and violence” rathe than enable anti-LGBT+ hate groups.

“[The] president has hired and promoted LGBTQ Americans to the highest levels of government, including positions at the White House, Cabinet agencies and ambassadorships,” Deere said. “He launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality…. And the president has made the bold declaration that we are committed to ending HIV transmissions in the United States within 10 years.”

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