The GOP says queer folks have destroyed the “traditional” family but we’re just the latest scapegoat

After the decline of communism around the world, the right needed other villains to scapegoat to further its own political agenda.

In the early 1990s, residents in a section of Los Angeles erupted following the acquittal of police officers accused of exerting excessive force against motorist Rodney King.

A few weeks later, the fictional TV character, Murphy Brown, played by Candice Bergen, gave birth. Vice President Dan Quayle, in his own inimical fashion, concluded that the riots in Los Angeles were caused by a deterioration of “traditional family values” as represented by the unmarried Murphy Brown.

Ross Perot, Texas billionaire and would-be independent presidential candidate, declared on ABC’s 20/20 in 1992 before his withdrawal from the race that if elected he would not appoint “adulterers or homosexuals” to high positions of government.

“No, I don’t want anybody there that will be…

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