Trump candidate rages against marriage equality while calling LGBTQ+ people an "existential threat" - LGBTQ Nation
2026-07-20 20:55 UTC
“One thing you need to understand about the LGBT movement is they don’t reproduce. They recruit,” Helfenbein said as O’Donnell agreed. “And they’re going to take your children from you.”
In April 2025, he also complained that LGBTQ+ people had “co-opted” the rainbow and said that they need to “figure out a way to take those things back,” setting up an adversarial position with the community, saying “It is an us-versus-them thing.”
In earlier tweets, O’Donnell also provided support for Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation created manifesto that drove Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign and that continues to target LGBTQ+ and women’s rights.
This type of thing screams “check his hard drive!”
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@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2026-07-21 23:03
That’s the equivalent of hating women because they will “take your [sons] from you,” or hating men because they will “take your [daughters] from you.” A gay person isn’t making a choice between their orientation and their parents; there is no reason they can’t have both in their lives. I know plenty of young L/Gs who have totally normal relationships with their parents, no different from any straight kid. If they are being forced to choose, then the only ones forcing that choice are the parents. The only ones making it an “us against them” situation are the bigots, not the gays. Gays don’t want to be separate from society, they want to be an accepted part of society.