{"id":505889,"date":"2016-11-28T20:18:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T20:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/kellyanne-conway\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:51","slug":"kellyanne-conway","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/kellyanne-conway\/","title":{"rendered":"Kellyanne Conway"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Falsely claimed<\/a> that Donald Trump was \u201cthe first president to start as president approving of gay marriage.\u201d As a candidate<\/a> in 2016, Donald Trump told Fox News that he would \u201cstrongly consider\u201d appointing justices to the United States Supreme Court who would overturn Obergefell v. Hodges<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\u2014Said the Equality Act contains a \u201cpoison pill<\/a> in it that could harm other people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Along with President Trump, Kellyanne Conway spoke<\/a> at the Family Reseach Council<\/a>\u2018s Values Voter Summit, a convening of fringe groups united around discrimination against LGBTQ people.<\/p>\n

\u2014Delivered the keynote address<\/a> at the Family Leadership Summit, an event hosted by Iowa\u2019s leading anti-LGBTQ group, The FAMiLY Leader.<\/p>\n

\u2014Referred to<\/a> a PBS kids\u2019 show that featured lesbian parents as one of the \u201coutside, external influences corrupting [kids\u2019] minds and their bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Referred to<\/a> marriage equality rulings as an attempt to \u201credefine\u201d family to be \u201cwhatever feels cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed<\/a> \u201cthe Left has used abortion to hijack the Democratic Party, direct its resources, and expand its agenda into other areas debasing the sanctity of human life,\u201d adding that Democrats who want to \u201cshow their true colors\u201d can \u201cbuy a hybrid car. Burn a bra. Slap on a bumper sticker that brags, \u2018I killed my baby.\u2019\u201c<\/p>\n

\u2014Compared<\/a> discussion of Mary Cheney\u2019s sexual orientation to someone saying \u201cYour daughter is a slut,\u201d or \u201cWe want you to open up the divorce records.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Dismissed<\/a> critics of Governor Sarah Palin\u2019s policy proposals as \u201cspinster childless columnists,\u201d further suggesting that these critics hate her because \u201cshe lost all her baby weight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Suggested<\/a> political correctness is going to cause plane crashes: \u201cAnd in fact, what starts out as maybe the person doesn\u2019t speak English, getting — putting mayonnaise instead of mustard as you requested on your sandwich is one day going to blossom into two air traffic controllers who don\u2019t speak great English because political correctness has made us appoint them to those positions. They\u2019re going to have two planes crashing in the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Used the racially-loaded phrase<\/a> \u201cback of the bus\u201d to refer to President Obama theoretically running as a vice president on a 2008 Clinton presidential ticket.<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed<\/a> \u201crevulsion toward men\u201d is \u201cpart and parcel of the feminist movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Once said that <\/a>her politics made \u201cAyn Rand look like a leftist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Suggested<\/a> that mothers should not take jobs outside the house.<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed<\/a> \u201cgay issues \u2018are not important to Americans\u2019\u201d: \u201cConservative pollster Kellyanne Conway complained that the media skips over gun-rights stories for its various pet causes, including reporting on gays. Gay issues \u201care not important to Americans,\u201d Conway said. The media, she added, has somehow forced changes in the public school curriculum that has resulted in an ignorant public. \u201cThey\u2019re so worried now about how many mommies Heather has that (the teacher) runs out of time\u201d to teach basic civic lessons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":343,"featured_media":505890,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[138565],"hashtag":[138635,138632,138634],"class_list":{"0":"post-505889","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-gaps","7":"region-national","8":"hashtag-commentator","9":"hashtag-politics","10":"hashtag-trump"},"aioseo_notices":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t