CNN contributor Jeffrey Lord argued Thursday that Donald Trump’s support of the Republican Party platform was not as “hostile” to the LGBT community as last month’s massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando.

“Trump has said he’s going to be a better friend to the gay community,” CNN host Ana Cabrera reminded Lord, noting that the Republican Party platform “opposes same-sex marriage rights, backs efforts to restrict bathroom rights to birth gender, supports parents right to choose so-called sexual conversion therapy for minors and currently protects businesses who refuse services to gays and lesbians based on religious beliefs.”

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“Does this fly with Donald Trump?” she wondered.

“Well, sure,” Lord insisted. “I think Donald Trump is very much a traditional guy. I mean, he’s got his positions on this staked out.”

“This doesn’t mean hostility,” the Trump surrogate added. “There’s a difference between saying that you want bathrooms to be men and women — and that sort of thing — and being hostile here.”

He continued: “I mean, heavens, we just had this terrible, terrible situation in Orlando where somebody who was devoted to radical Islam, which is quite hostile — I mean, seriously hostile to gays — went in and murdered 49 people in cold blood. I mean, we do have to have a sense of proportion here.”

Watch the video below from CNN, broadcast July 14, 2016.