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Tue Jan 29, 2019, 03:58 PM Jan 2019

I found one of those rare social Liberal Republicans...in Florida.

And he's going to pay for it.

Orlando's John Stemberger calls on Florida GOP chair to resign over LGBTQ rights bill

TALLAHASSEE — The leader of an influential social conservative group is calling for the resignation of Republican Party of Florida chairman Joe Gruters because he’s backing legislation to protect LGBTQ workers, underlining a split within the GOP.

John Stemberger, president of the Orlando-based Florida Family Policy Council, wrote a memo to his members Monday claiming the measure would “be used as a weapon to punish Christians for simply acting out their faith as small businessmen or private individuals.”

“No state Republican Party chairman in the history of America has ever supported a bill this dangerous and irresponsible,” Stemberger wrote. “The bill represents both bad policy and bad politics and because of his refusal to pull his support from this egregious legislation, we are announcing a grass roots campaign to unseat him as state party chairman.”

The memo urges supporters to contact Gruters to ask him to withdraw his support for the bill or resign as party leader.


https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-ne-gruters-rpof-stemberger-lgbt-20190128-story.html

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