GOP Congressman tries to win over LGBTQ voters now that his district includes Palm Springs

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After spending 30 years opposing LGBTQ rights, Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) is now trying to win over LGBTQ voters.

The Republican congressman representing California’s 42nd district, says his views on LGBTQ issues have changed, and his very recent change in views comes just as his district was redrawn to include the very LGBTQ city of Palm Sprints.

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The Los Angeles Times reports that Calvert, who is facing an out gay challenger in Democrat Will Rollins, now believes that the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges should not be overturned.

“It wasn’t always my position,” Calvert told the paper. “It’s a different country than it was 30 years ago.”

Calvert is running against Rollins in the newly created Riverside County district which includes Palm Springs, one of the largest concentrations of LGBTQ voters in America. The district Calvert currently represents is solidly Republican.

Calvert’s anti-LGBTQ history goes all the way back to 1994 when…

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