Democrat Promises to ‘Call on the Congress to Pass the Equality Act’

At a gay nightclub in Wilton Manors,Â Florida Hillary ClintonÂ on Sunday spoke for about 30 minutes, telling supporters “LGBT kids donâ€™t need to be cured of anything.”

The Democratic nominee, who a few weeks after the hate crime at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub held private meetings with victim’s families and friends and made an unscheduled stop at the site to pay her respects, was joined by several thousand cheering supporters.

“There is still no federal law that stops an employer from refusing to hire someone just because he or she is LGBT,” Clinton said at The Manor,Â “or a landlord from refusing to rent an apartment to a transgender tenant, and of course there are still states where you could get marriedÂ on Saturday, post your Facebook photosÂ on Sunday, and get firedÂ on MondayÂ just because of who you are and who you love.”

She promised her administration will “call on the Congress to pass the Equality Act,” “work together to achieve the AIDS-free generation that is within our reach,” and “take on homelessness, bullying, and violence, particularly youth homelessness, which disproportionately hurts LGBT kids.”

“And we are going to end the harmful practice of so-called conversion therapy. LGBT kids donâ€™t need to be cured of anything. They just need to be accepted and embraced and respected. And yes, weâ€™re going to bring people together to reform our gun laws and keep guns from falling into the wrong hands so that what happened in Orlando can never happen again.”

Clinton also told supporters, “remember, itâ€™s not just my name on the ballot. Itâ€™s your future. Itâ€™s who we are as a country. Itâ€™s every issue we care about. And make no mistake: LGBT rights are at stake. Dignity and respect for every American is at stake. The future of our economy is at stake.”

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And she blasted her Republican opponent, warning that “his strategy” is: “Get women to stay home. Get young people to stay home. Get people of color to stay home. Get the LGBT community to stay home.” Calling it “part of his scorched earth campaign,” Clinton told the crowd “it goes against everything we stand for. So you know how weâ€™re going to stop him? By showing up with the biggest turnout in American history.”

She also shared a Washington Post report from Saturday detailing, she said, how Trump, “unannounced and uninvited,”Â barged in to a “ribbon-cutting back in 1996 for a nursery school serving children living with HIV and AIDS.”Â

“He had never given a single dollar to help build the school. He just wanted people to think he had. So he sat on the stage through the program, even posed for photographs, and when it was over, he got up and walked out. No explanation. No donation.”

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