Trump and Pence will spend today and tomorrow morning courting votes from designated hate groups such as the American Family Association and activists organizing to defend North Carolina’s dangerous and vile HB2, which cost the state millions of dollars in economic damage and wrote discrimination into state law. The “Values Voter Summit” also includes promoters of right-to-discriminate laws like the one Pence signed in Indiana, devastating the state’s economy.

“This weekend couldn’t present a more powerful contrast about what’s at stake for the LGBTQ community in this election,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “While Tim Kaine is standing alongside the Human Rights Campaign in support of full equality for LGBTQ people here and across the globe, Donald Trump and Mike Pence will be across town courting support from the most notorious anti-LGBTQ extremists in the nation.”

HRC has also released a “Love Trumps Hate” snapchat filter that will be geo-targeted to the area near the Omni Shoreham, the “Values Voters Summit” host hotel. Trump is slated to speak at about 3 p.m. today and Pence at 11:35 a.m. Saturday.

Last month, on the two-month anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting that took the lives of 49 LGBTQ people and allies, Donald Trump courted anti-LGBTQ activists just 10 miles from the site of the tragedy in Orlando. Donald Trump has embraced an anti-LGBTQ agenda from the start -- opposing marriage equality and endorsing laws that threaten the fundamental equality of LGBTQ people in their homes, schools and communities. He further doubled down on his opposition to equality by putting Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on the ticket. Pence became a national disgrace in 2015, for his “license to discriminate” bill that could have allowed businesses to deny service to LGBTQ people.

Over the last several months, Donald Trump has only burnished his anti-LGBTQ credentials. Recently, Trump was endorsed by James Dobson, who will also attend “Values Voter Summit” and founded two of the most notorious anti-equality organizations in the nation: Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council. Dobson linked the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., with "turning our back on God" and the "redefinition" of marriage." Dobson has said that same-sex marriage is the “fall of Western civilization itself” and was part of a “master plan” for destruction of family. He even suggested marriage equality could lead to a “civil war.” Dobson has called Obama’s transgender student guidelines an effort to “sow chaos” and “impose tyranny.” Trump has also campaigned alongside Tony Perkins -- the current leader of the Family Research Council, which sponsors “Values Voter Summit.” Perkins will also be speaking at the Summit.

In addition to Donald Trump’s own vile views and behavior, Trump Campaign CEO Steve Bannon has launched vile smears against transgender people while he worked for Breitbart News. Trump’s new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway is a former pollster for the National Organization for Marriage who once objected to the inclusion of openly LGBTQ people in the media, saying of one television show that featured a lesbian couple that people, “...don’t want their kids looking at a cartoon with a bunch of lesbian mothers.”

The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ people are embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.

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