It was with considerable fanfare that the LGBTQ community went on the offensive yesterday by claiming the LGBTQ community was being excluded from the 2020 census. Meghan Maury of the National LGBTQ Task Force claimed, "Today, the Trump Administration has taken yet another step to deny LGBTQ people freedom, justice, and equity, by choosing to exclude us from the 2020 Census and American Community Survey. LGBTQ people are not counted on the Census—no data is collected on sexual orientation or gender identity."
The only problem is that the Census has never asked questions pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity and as Guy Benson (who is gay himself) of Townhall.com points out the person overseeing the 2020 Census is an Obama appointee. So if the LGBTQ community wants to direct anger it should have directed towards President Obama in equal measure.
Now there are plenty of reasons to oppose the Trump Administration but this isn't one of them. Anti-Trump activists, be they part of the LGBTQ community or not, must choose its battles wisely. Otherwise energy is being wasted and anti-Trump forces will be perceived as fighting for the sake of fighting. If Trump is to be defeated in 2020, his opposition must be seen as rational and sober. In other words, everything that Trump is not. Should anti-Trump activists blame him for everything under the sun including the weather the people who need to be persuaded to abandon Trump will stop listening if they haven't already.
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