Does donald trump want to ban gay marriage

The new draft party platform, which still must get approval from the full Republican National Committee, came after the Trump campaign made a quiet push to keep those seen as too socially conservative off the platform committee out of concern that they would make a vocal push for things like a federal abortion ban, which has consistently been unpopular in public polling.

PolitiFact FL: Where Trump and Biden stand on key LGBTQ+ issues

Across his administration, several departments including the State Department, Department of Veterans Affairs and the Social Security Administration, updated policies to extend benefits to same-sex couples. And although Biden has suggested he supported gay couples since his youth, his earlier policy decisions reflect otherwise.

In essence, a potential second Trump administration would seek to erase transgender people from public life entirely by using federal laws — including obscenity laws — to criminalize gender nonconformity. How We Got Here: The Trump administration was openly hostile toward the LGBTQ community and vehemently opposed the Equality Act, which would have ensured that existing civil rights protections cover sexual orientation and gender identity in the way that they already do for race, disability, veteran status, and more.

Should the Supreme Court agree to hear a challenge to Obergefell, one of two main outcomes is likely. First, the court could reaffirm Obergefell. This would probably put an end to most Republican attacks on same-sex marriage and would maintain the status quo by prohibiting states from outlawing same-sex marriage.