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Carly Fiorina
Former GOP Presidential Candidate
Former CEO, HP
- Updated: April 21, 2023
—Backed a federal amendment barring marriage equality, as well as the discriminatory federal Defense of Marriage Act.
—Opposes federal law barring employment discrimination against LGBTQ people.
—In campaign for president, campaign website read: “Carly believes marriage is between a man and a woman, and she supported California’s Proposition 8.” Prop 8 banned marriage equality until a district court overturned it.
—Labeled openly gay Apple CEO Tim Cook a “hypocrite” for opposing a so-called “religious freedom” law in the state of Indiana, and called the national blowback against the discriminatory law a “ginned-up controversy by people who play identity politics that has divided the nation in a way that is really unhelpful.”
—Supported Indiana law signed by then-Governor Mike Pence describing it as “nothing objectionable” as it sought to legalize discrimination based on religious exemption, while criticizing out Apple CEO Tim Cook for opposing it. “When 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’s in, including China and Saudi Arabia,” she said Thursday afternoon during an interview with Wall Street Journal reporters and editors. “But I don’t hear him being upset about that.”
—Insisted a majority vote on minority rights was the “right way” to decide marriage equality: “I believe the right way to solve these very personal issues is to let people vote on them, don’t have judges decide it, don’t even have representative government decide it, let people vote on it in the states.”
—Said before the 2015 ruling granting marriage equality to all fifty states that such a ruling was “the worst thing the Supreme Court can do right now.”
—Insisted “marriage is a religious institution” because “only a man and a woman can create life which is a gift that comes from God.”
—Received the endorsement and financial backing of the anti-LGBTQ National Organization for Marriage.
—As a presidential candidate, signed a pledge to support legislation called the “First Amendment Defense Act,” which would prohibit the federal government from “taking 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.”
The GLAAD Accountability Project catalogs anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and discriminatory actions of politicians, commentators, organization heads, religious leaders, and legal figures, who have used their platforms, influence and power to spread misinformation and harm LGBTQ people.
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