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- LGBTQ+ people should vote for Donald Trump.
Homosexuality is illegal in 73 countries. The Trump Administration will seek to make it legal across the world through diplomatic efforts.
The argument
In 2019, Trump launched a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality. Trump seeks to take leadership on an issue where homosexuality is still punishable by death in many countries. Trump allowed the first openly gay cabinet member in history to spearhead this initiative. Trump will be working on this initiative in coordination with the UN, EU, and other organizations.
Premises
Counter-arguments
"Donald Trump and Mike Pence have given hate against LGBTQ+ individuals safe harbor and rolled back critical protections for the LGBTQ+ community. By blocking the ability of transgender individuals to openly serve their country, denying LGBTQ+ people access to critical health care, proposing policies allowing federally funded homeless shelters to turn away transgender people and federally funded adoption agencies to reject same-sex couples, and failing to address the epidemic of violence against transgender people—particularly transgender women of color—the Trump-Pence Administration has led a systematic effort to undo the progress President Obama and Vice President Biden made."
Rejecting the premises
[Rejecting P1] The premise describes an announced initiative rather than an outcome, and offers no measure of what it achieved in any of the countries concerned; a campaign's launch is not a record. [Rejecting P2] An appointment and a list of intended partners are inputs rather than results. The question is how LGBTQ+ people should vote, which turns on the whole record — and the counter sets out domestic measures running the other way, including the bar on transgender military service and proposed rules affecting shelter and adoption access, none of which the premises weigh.