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Miami New Times: Ron DeSantis Appeared at Miami Event With Anti-Gay Pundit Who Insulted Pulse Victims

In the past, Ron DeSantis has appeared at events organized by virulently anti-Muslim activists and associated with white supremacists. His wife recently attended a fundraiser with an Obama birther. At this point, it seems like a safe bet to assume everyone DeSantis or his campaign associates with in public is some kind of a right-wing extremist.

Take, for instance, D.C. Republican strategist, cable-news pundit, and hater of LGBTQ people Raynard Jackson, who has spent years railing against homosexuals — and even claimed gay leaders were using the Pulse nightclub massacre to spread a “radical homosexual agenda.” This past Friday, DeSantis shared the stage with Jackson at a Black Professionals Summit in Miami, where Jackson berated a woman who asked the GOP gubernatorial candidate a challenging question about the school-to-prison pipeline.

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But what really seems to get Jackson going are the gays. He’s been fervently and angrily tweeting and blogging about the evils of the “homosexual lobby” for years. He seems to hate gay people, trans people, gender-nonbinary people, and anyone who doesn’t believe that men and women should get married at age 19 and pump out 33 kids.

Below is just a small sampling of Jackson’s views on the LGBTQ community. In his tweets, he complains about LGBTQ monuments, lesbians at WNBA games, and Ellen DeGeneres’ “polluting the children” of America. When Barack Obama nominated Eric Fanning to be the first openly gay service secretary in the U.S. Army, Jackson tweeted out the exclamation “ENOUGH,” among other complaints.

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