“The president quite frankly has led this charge,” Andersson said, adding: “It’s up to our Congress, that co-equal branch, to resist, to say no to this nonsense, to push back, and I call upon my Republican colleagues to do that because what is being spewed as a Republican value is not,” he said. “We are not about hate, we are about inclusion, we are about equal rights for all ... so I call upon my Republican colleagues to reject this and vote no on this.”