"That's how Pam Bondi, Donald Trump's latest pick to be his attorney general in a second Trump administration, described her support for the LGBTQ+ community in an interview with CNN's Anderson Copper in 2016 as "Different color rainbow hands," referring to an illustration of clasped hands posted on her Florida Attorney General website following the mass shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando."
"Bondi, 59 - who hopes to be confirmed as the nation's top law enforcement official in the wake of fellow Floridian Matt Gaetz's abrupt withdrawal from consideration on Thursday - is on the record as a staunch opponent of marriage equality. At the height of the marriage equality battle in the courts leading to the landmark Obergefell v Hodges decision by the Supreme Court in 2015, Bondi was a vocal opponent of same-sex unions."
"In 2014, Bondi filed a response asking a federal judge to throw out a marriage equality case in Florida, arguing that recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states would result in what she called "significant public harm." Bondi's declaration was part of a protracted, and ultimately unsuccessful, legal fight to preserve Florida's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Her office incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal costs as she continued to fight same-sex marriage in the state, even after bans in nearly 20 states had been struck down, according to CNN."
Pam Bondi described her support for the LGBTQ+ community in 2016 as "Different color rainbow hands," referencing an illustration of clasped hands on her Florida Attorney General website after the Pulse Nightclub shooting. Bondi was a vocal opponent of same-sex unions during the lead-up to the Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision in 2015. In 2014 she filed a response asking a federal judge to dismiss a Florida marriage-equality case, arguing that recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriages would cause "significant public harm," and she later petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to consider Florida's gay marriage prohibition. Her office incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal costs while continuing to fight same-sex marriage in the state.
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