{"id":505949,"date":"2016-12-29T18:55:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T18:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/carly-fiorina\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:49","slug":"carly-fiorina","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/carly-fiorina\/","title":{"rendered":"Carly Fiorina"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014<\/span>Backed<\/a> a federal amendment barring marriage equality, as well as the discriminatory federal Defense of Marriage Act.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Opposes<\/a> federal law barring employment discrimination against LGBTQ people.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>In campaign for president, campaign website read<\/a>: \u201cCarly believes marriage is between a man and a woman, and she supported California\u2019s Proposition 8.\u201d Prop 8 banned marriage equality until a district court overturned it.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Labeled<\/a> openly gay Apple CEO Tim Cook a \u201chypocrite\u201d for opposing a so-called \u201creligious freedom\u201d law in the state of Indiana, and called the national blowback against the discriminatory law a \u201cginned-up controversy by people who play identity politics that has divided the nation in a way that is really unhelpful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Supported<\/a><\/span> Indiana law signed by then-Governor Mike Pence<\/a> describing it as \u201cnothing objectionable\u201d as it sought to legalize discrimination based on religious exemption, while criticizing out Apple CEO Tim Cook for opposing it. \u201cWhen Tim Cook is upset about all the places that he does business because of the way they treat gays and women, he needs to withdraw from 90% of the markets that he\u2019s in, including China and Saudi Arabia,\u201d she said Thursday afternoon during an interview with Wall Street Journal reporters and editors. \u201cBut I don\u2019t hear him being upset about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Insisted<\/a> a majority vote on minority rights was the \u201cright way\u201d to decide marriage equality: \u201cI believe the right way to solve these very personal issues is to let people vote on them, don\u2019t have judges decide it, don\u2019t even have representative government decide it, let people vote on it in the states.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Said<\/a> before the 2015 ruling granting marriage equality to all fifty states that such a ruling was \u201cthe worst thing the Supreme Court can do right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Insisted<\/a> \u201cmarriage is a religious institution\u201d because \u201conly a man and a woman can create life which is a gift that comes from God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Received<\/a> the endorsement and financial backing of the anti-LGBTQ National Organization for Marriage.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>As a presidential candidate, signed a pledge<\/a> to support legislation called the \u201cFirst Amendment Defense Act<\/a>,\u201d which would prohibit the federal government from \u201ctaking discriminatory action against a person on the basis that such person believes or acts in accordance with a religious belief or moral conviction that: (1) marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, or (2) sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":343,"featured_media":505950,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[138565],"hashtag":[138632],"class_list":{"0":"post-505949","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-gaps","7":"region-national","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