A day after Kentucky Senator Rand Paul
declared his opposition to LGBT workplace protections, Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton responded with a “no.”
When asked Wednesday at a campaign
event whether he was okay with LGBT people being fired over their
sexual orientation or gender identity, Paul, a candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination, answered that “things you do in
your house” should not be “part of the workplace.”
(Related: Rand
Paul: LGBT people should remain closeted at work.)
JoDee Winterhof, senior vice president
for policy and political affairs at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC),
the nation's largest LGBT rights advocate, called on other GOP
candidates to rebuke Paul's comments.
“The feeling when a GOP candidate
says it's acceptable to be fired for being gay,” Clinton captioned
a GIF on Twitter of herself from Tuesday's debate in which she
smiles, then responds “no.”