{"id":3189,"date":"2017-08-10T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2017-08-04T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T13:25:14","slug":"lgbtqia-politics-roundup-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3189","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Politics Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-080417-768x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/trump-taps-lgbtq-rights-opponent-sam-brownback-religious-freedom-ambassador-n788101\">Trump Taps LGBTQ-Rights Opponent Sam Brownback as Religious Freedom Ambassador<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump has nominated Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, a staunch and outspoken opponent of LGBTQ rights, as the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.? This section of the U.S. Department of State is responsible for promoting religious freedom as a fundamental goal of U.S. foreign policy.? Brownback?s LGBTQ record includes revoking antidiscrimination orders and allowing university groups to exclude LGBTQ members, among others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/majority-americans-support-transgender-people-military-according-new-poll\/#gs.B6HvLAM\">?Majority of Americans support transgender people in the military according to new poll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a poll coordinated by Reuters in July, 58 percent of Americans participating in the poll believed that transgender citizens should be allowed to serve in the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Trump Taps LGBTQ-Rights Opponent Sam Brownback as Religious Freedom Ambassador Mr. Trump has nominated Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, a staunch and outspoken opponent of LGBTQ rights, as the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.? This section of the U.S. Department of State is responsible for promoting religious freedom as a fundamental goal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}