{"id":505934,"date":"2016-12-13T17:32:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T17:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/sam-brownback\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:49","slug":"sam-brownback","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/sam-brownback\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Brownback"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014An original cosponsor<\/a> of a proposed federal marriage amendment, Brownback called marriage equality \u201cradical social experimentation\u201d and \u201ca grave threat to our central social institution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed<\/a> marriage equality is \u201charmful to the future of the Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Rescinded<\/a> an executive order stating Kansas state workers could not face discrimination, harassment, or job termination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.<\/p>\n

\u2014Voted against LGBT hate crimes legislation, stating<\/a>, \u201cThis is something we have got to fight against, that somehow that the thought is what the crime is, and that being moved into an agenda not allowing people to speak their beliefs about homosexuality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Temporarily blocked<\/a> the confirmation of a federal judge solely because she attended the commitment ceremony of a same-sex couple.<\/p>\n

\u2014Rejected<\/a> President Obama\u2019s federal guidance on transgender students using facilities that match their gender identity.<\/p>\n

\u2014Signed<\/a> a so-called \u201creligious freedom\u201d law allowing college campus groups to exclude members based on religious beliefs without losing public funds.<\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> about marriage equality: \u201cWhen you do these vast, social experiments–and that\u2019s what this is, when you redefine marriage–they\u2019re not done in isolation. They impact the rest of the culture around you. When you take the sacredness out of marriage, you will drive the marriage rates down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed<\/a> the military\u2019s discriminatory \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d ban was \u201cgood policy\u201d and \u201cthe right thing for us to do in the military.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":343,"featured_media":505935,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[],"hashtag":[138636,138632],"class_list":{"0":"post-505934","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-gaps","7":"hashtag-anti-transgender","8":"hashtag-politics"},"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