2. George W. Bush
As governor of Texas in 1994, Bush ignorantly said that he would veto and effort made to repeal a Texas sodomy law citing that it was a way to instill “traditional values” in citizens. The next year he signed a bill into the Texas Family Code that would prohibit the marriage of any persons of the same sex in the state of Texas.
He has been a constant opponent of gay rights since his days as Governor and even let a Texas bill die that would protect American citizens from hate crimes against their race, religion or sexual orientation simply because he did not want to protect gay and lesbian Texans.
Similarly, after the Boy Scouts of America famously passed a law that forced them to allow gays into their troops Bush spoke out against the law citing that it was a private organization that had a right to refuse entry. By his election in 2000, Bush had flipped the script and began to speak out against sodomy laws but remained firm on his stance against gay marriage.
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