With the midterm ballot tabulations finally winding down, it’s clear that the LGBTQ political and cultural strategy has entered a new phase both in Alaska and across America.
Increasingly, candidates are being elected to public office who openly identify as gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender and non-binary with the aim of advancing the LGBTQ agenda in schools, legislatures and across the wider culture.
According to the LGBTQ Victory Fund, which tracks elections throughout the nation, there were 436 LGBTQ candidates who won their elections in 2022. This shatters the previous record of 336 set in 2020, and there are still many races yet to be called.
Annise Parker, the President & CEO of LGBTQ Victory Fund, said she expects that Jennie Armstrong and Andrew Gray will work to advance the LGBTQ agenda via the Alaska Legislature.
In Alaska, State House Candidates Jennie Armstrong and Andrew Gray became the first openly LGBTQ candidates to be elected to the Alaska Legislature. Additionally, Greg Smith, who also openly identifies with the LGBTQ community, ran unopposed for a seat on the Juneau Borough Assembly.
Prior to this recent election, Alaska was one of four states with no LGBTQ state lawmakers.
The rapid increase in LGBTQ candidates was no accident. In fact, there was a concerted effort to flood political races with candidates nationwide. According to Victory Institute, a record 714 LGBTQ candidates ran for office, winning 61% of their races.
Victory institute and its partners are hoping to increase that number by more than 35,000 in the coming years. This includes seats on school boards, city and borough councils, state legislatures, governorships and Congress.
He added that LGBTQ activists are more disciplined and persistent than their conservative counterparts.
Annise Parker, the President & CEO of LGBTQ Victory Fund, said she expects that Jennie Armstrong and Andrew Gray will work to advance the LGBTQ agenda via the Alaska Legislature. This could include bills that enable transgender sports, bathrooms, LGBTQ sex education and laws that penalize businesses and non-profits for failing to support this agenda.
“Alaskans are ready for the change Jennifer and Andrew will bring to Juneau because they know the status quo is not working,” Parker stated following the midterms. “In the coming months, state legislatures will determine the future of marriage equality and abortion rights. We are confident pro-equality, pro-choice leaders like Jennie and Andrew will fight tooth and nail on behalf of our community.”
Parker claimed that those who oppose LGBTQ candidates are “bigots.”
The LGBTQ movement is also making inroads in the Republican party as well.
“Bigots underestimated our power and determination as they’ve done throughout history,” she stated. “While this election has given us much to be optimistic about, such as a historic number of victorious trans and nonbinary candidates, we still have a long way to go before we achieve equitable representation in government. LGBTQ people have never been fully represented in government and until that day, we will not stop organizing, we will not stop fighting and we will not stop running for office. Because when we run, we win.”
A recent article in the conservative American Family News noted that the momentum which the LGBTQ lobby currently enjoys has come about by cementing itself within the established Democratic Party.
Peter LaBarbera of the national Americans for Truth About Homosexuality observed that Democrats try to “shame anyone who believes in God’s design for sexuality into at least giving up the fight, if not changing their beliefs – and that’s the reason the Democratic Party has sprinted so far left without being challenged,” American Family News noted.
He added that LGBTQ activists are more disciplined and persistent than their conservative counterparts.
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“They’re just so much better at getting their very hard-core activists in these legislatures than we are,” LaBarbera acknowledged.
As this happens, it becomes increasingly easy to push the LGBTQ agenda.
“Right now, their objective is very defensive: stopping all anti-trans legislation – even the commonsense stuff, like not letting a minor chop off body parts or do puberty blockers,” LaBarbera said. “On the other hand, we saw at the federal level that they were very aggressive in trying to institutionalize, through the law, homosexual ‘marriage.'”
The LGBTQ movement is also making inroads in the Republican party as well. In Alaska Sarah Palin welcomed the endorsement of the LGBTQ activist group, Log Cabin Republicans, and earlier this month both Alaska Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski joined 10 other GOP senators in voting to advance a bill that looks to codify same-sex marriage into federal law.
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I guess with LGBTQ+ people in our government, abortion won’t be an issue because LGBTQ+ all are for same sex partners. This will stop the population explosion – and life after 70-80 years. Great plan. Only bill they will need to pass in Juneau is one for people who like sex with the opposite sex. Control that and end human life in America. Great plan. Press on.
Oh I forgot, Let me keep my First Ammendment rights. I want to tell you where your mistakes are. Thank you
Praying for our Heavenly Father’s Kingdom to come and for his will to be done here on earth as it is in heaven.
Christians seem overly concerned about sex.
Wow, remarkable. I don’t recall any Christian men getting up on public stages dressed like cheap street walkers and shaking their asses at kids, but then your recollection appears to be a bit different than everyone else’s.
I mean, not a Christian *man*, but here’s a former Governor of Alaska and a recent house representative who thinks twerking on stage scantily clad is cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZO8WTemftA&t=553s
Do you see conservative candidates labeling themselves by who they have sex with? Apparently we’re all supposed to have a label these days. Can you imagine if candidates announced being straight?
More psychological projection? Trying another conservative news site? A tad obsessed?
As in the days of Noah! Noah was a righteous man who preached for 120 years meaning that God’s patience waited. Noah warned of what was coming, the Bible says. But they mocked, ignored, went on marrying and living their life up until the day Noah and his family entered the ark. Then the flood came and washed the people away and they perished. Yet God says: “I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that they would turn to Me and LIVE!”
You really believe that?
I used to be a libertarian, but these “hard core” progressives pushed me to the right. I’ve never been more conservative. The “inclusive” crowd spreads the most hate.
Sodom & Gomorrah 2.0
Lgbt are obsessed with turning our children trans, we are merely standing up to the improprietaries.
Forcing girls/females to compete against biological females in sports, let alone forcing our girls to undress in locker rooms with them. Inappropriate.
This is clearly open defiance of any sense of fairnessmp, not that any of you seem to care. Queerness only legislation, backed by the leftists, lunatics have taken over…
This is wonderful news! I’ve been approached about running for office before, but I declined because Alaska was the ONLY state that had never elected an ‘out’ politician to office. Seemed a daunting task. And honestly a little scary to be a public figure with so many extremists in AK. I am so happy to hear the United States has finally entered a new era of love and equality! Now every single state has at least some lgbt representation. I didn’t even know there were lgbt candidates running this year. I look forward to seeing all the people they will be able to teach love and acceptance to, and all the young lgbt lives that will be saved as a result! The Lord has truly blessed us!
Clark, you should run for office! I would love to see the crowds booing at you and see you get to the point that you can no longer walk down the streets because people know what type of person that you really are. Your reception by the public would be like your President, V.P. and Speaker of the House’s reception! BOOOOOOO!
Clark- you either attending wrong church, listening to a fake pastor, or reading a terrible altered bible, or you haven’t even started reading your bible . God does not bless our deviance, rebellion, and sins. God permits our sins for His greater purpose without His blessing.
Jen. Put that book down and learn some respect.
Increasingly, candidates are running for public office who openly identify as Big Lie election deniers with the aim of advancing the MAGA agenda in schools, legislatures and across the wider culture.
The big lie is that the 2020 and 2022 elections were legitimate and fair
https://alaskapublic.org/2022/11/27/two-years-after-contentious-2020-vote-alaska-finds-only-3-voter-fraud-cases/
And they sure don’t sound like Democrats…
Whidbey, can you cite the cases from that article that you reference please?
Goll dangit to heck! I wish radical deniers like you Dana would offer some evidence. SOMETHING! But y’all never do.
And the next time conservatives win, it will be because of a free and fair election.
Increasingly, candidates are running for public office who openly identify as Second Amendment zealots with the aim of advancing gun worship in schools, legislatures and across the wider culture.
Whidbey, talk about derogatory. You call someone who believes in and stands for the Second Amendment as a zealot.
You continue the lie that someone that believes in and stands for the Second Amendment “worships” guns? God’s Word The Bible tells us not to worship anything but him our Almighty Creator, Our loving Father in Heaven, The Creator of all creation. Worshiping anything other than our Almighty Creator is idolatry – we do not worship guns.
I’m sorry FoH, but your religious incantations are pure fantasy. Deception by others (probably in your youth) started you down the path of faith, but now you are deluding yourself. Like most Christians, you repeat the dogma ever-more stridently in the hope of actually convincing yourself that it’s true.
I am sorry Whidbey, but your repeated putdowns against Christians and efforts to make Christians question their faith or question their decisions only makes my faith stronger. Satan is losing control of this nation and is starting to throw everything he has at it to make us break. Not going to work. God wins.
Increasingly, candidates are running for public office who openly identify as White Nationalist with the aim of advancing the White Supremacy agenda in schools, legislatures and across the wider culture.
Whidbey, what is your definition of a Nationalist?
Increasingly, candidates are running for public office who openly identify as Democrats with the aim of advancing the compassion, fairness, equality, and diversity agenda in schools, legislatures and across the wider culture.
Wondering why one post was repeated three times? Editor? Moderator? Anyone there?
Read again.
Are they yours
You are so attentive! Must be that people are getting tired of reading Whidbey’s rhetoric.
“6:01 post – identify as Second Amendment zealots with the aim of…..
6:05 post – identify as White Nationalist with the aim of…..
6:09 post – identify as Democrats with the aim of…..”
“You are so attentive!” is directed to Terry Stires. Sorry that I did not give Terry’s name in the beginning of that post.
Did not want Dana to think that this comment was directed to Dana.
Well. Hate and Love do strengthen a person’s determination. You either hate the things of God and love the things of this world, or you love the things of God and hate the things of saten. The bible say homosexuality is just as bad as a sin as lying, cheating, murdering, idolatry, coveting, and it results in death no matter how many reasons a cult church says homosexuals can still go to heaven, and changing the bible’s print still doesn’t change God’s word.
That dang book is the root of you intolerance Jen. Religion is poison.
Not seeing any intolerance from Jen
Are not homosexuals also created by God?
Dr. Scott Lively talks with Mike Adams/Health Ranger Report about how every person should have equal rights – not one person/group over another. History about the LGBTQ movement is discussed and how the movement now could lead to the collapse of human civilization.
https://www.brighteon.com/2dba898d-42d1-4c63-a16d-227dbb5d6b1e