That time anti-LGBTQ candidate Blake Masters went to the gay wedding of his biggest financial backer

Blake Masters speaking with attendees at a “Unite & Win Rally” at Arizona Financial Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona – 14 August 2022
Photo: Gage Skidmore – Wikimedia Commons

Meet Blake Masters.

He’s the 36-year-old venture capitalist and Republican nominee challenging Democrat Mark Kelly for his U.S. Senate seat in Arizona.

He’s also a homophobic pile of garbage who wants to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the SCOTUS decision establishing a right to same-sex marriage.

Oh, and his campaign is being largely funded by billionaire Peter Thiel… who is gay… and married to a man.

Before his recent foray into politics, Masters, who has never held public office before, worked for Thiel, who has reportedly funneled at least $15 million into a pro-Masters super PAC called Saving Arizona PAC.

The guys are close. So close that they wrote a book together in 2014 and, in 2017, Masters was invited to Thiel’s wedding to Matt Danzeisen… even though he doesn’t support gay marriage and thinks same-sex unions should be illegal.

According to his ivoterguide profile, Masters also believes “religious freedom” must be…

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