Donald Trump's social media shout-out to the LGBT community on Tuesday demonstrated another wrinkle in the GOP nominee's unpredictable run for the White House.
Trump's position, as portrayed in his Tweet: With his intention of banning Muslims, Trump will stem the immigration of the very people, like Omar Mateen, who are likely to kill more gay people in the future. Or, at the very least, attempt to impede their rights.
A Republican candidate embracing the LGBT faction is a new one in American politics, and they have noticed.
Gregory Angelo, president of a gay Republican group called the Log Cabin Republicans, told the
Wall Street Journal it's a "historic turning point."
"Never before has a Republican presidential nominee so much as mentioned the LGBT community, let alone lavished such praise upon us," Angelo told the WSJ.
However, others aren't buying it.
"He has no shame," Jay Brown, spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, which has endorsed Hillary Clinton, told the Journal. "We (Muslims, Hispanics, women) are the very people around whom he has built an entire campaign belittling and maligning at every turn."
Some on the pro-gay rights side of the GOP hope this is the dawn of a movement they say is important to expand the party. Social conservatives, however, have a different view.
"Forces may try to use this as an opportunity and I think it would be a mistake," Ed Martin, president of an evangelical group taking aim at a conservative platform at the GOP convention told
Politico. "If you look at the makeup of the platform committee, it's full of rock-ribbed conservatives. Donald Trump and his people know that."
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