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Watch GOP Delegate Stand Up For LGBT Community During Platform Committee

She went IN.

California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom posted a video to his Facebook of a rare sight: a Republican standing up for LGBT rights and same-sex marriage.

At the GOP platform meeting, Republican New York delegate Anne Dickerson gave an emotional and brave speech against all the bigotry she was hearing from other committee members.

In her passionate speech Dickerson goes after Republicans that continue to falsely claim that children who have same-sex parents are more prone to drug and alcohol use:

“Continuing to suggest that a gay married couple, which is legal in our country, and was legal in 32 states prior to the recent Obergefell decision, this is outrageous to suggest that children of a gay couple are more likely to be completely imbalanced, and use drugs…and be criminals…I mean this is so provocative. And I completely disagree with this language. And I would hope that some fellow members would not want to continue to do harm, and would want to have a party of addition and not subtraction. And stop repelling gays, for God’s sake.”

According to political news site, The Hill: "Dickerson, an adviser to billionaire GOP donor Paul Singer, who is a proponent of same-sex marriage and other issues championed by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community."

Watch her rousing speech below:

h/t: Towleroad

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