'LGBTQ issues are not political issues. They are not lifestyles, they are not beliefs, they are not choices. They are basic human rights.'
The club was ain the heavily conservative Colorado Springs area, where an influential evangelical Christian movement has historically demonized queer people.
Michael Anderson, a bartender who was working when the shooter attacked, also recounted the terror he felt when the shooting started, and how he ran and hid from the shooter and prayed that it would end. "Unfortunately, these thoughts and prayers alone are not saving lives," he said."They are not changing the rhetoric of hate. None of us ever imagined that our little bar in Colorado Springs would be the target of the next hate crime."
"And through your inaction, and your vote, you as a leader send the clear message: It is OK not to respect the basic human rights of loving who you love, and it is OK to disrespect and not support our marriages," he said."We are being slaughtered and dehumanized across this country in communities you took oaths to protect.
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