A gay billionaire is quietly funding one of the most anti-LGBTQ candidates in the nation

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Peter Thiel, the gay tech billionaire and Republican activist who spoke at the 2016 GOP convention, threw his money behind an anti-LGBTQ candidate who may actually win today’s primary for the U.S. Senate seat in Kansas.

Thiel gave almost one million dollars to the campaign of former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach for the GOP primary for U.S. Senate. And now state Republicans are reportedly rushing to help Rep. Roger Marshall (R-KS) win the primary because they’re worried Kobach’s extremism could lose the Senate seat for the party.

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Kobach ran for governor in 2018 and lost to a Democrat, partly because several prominent Republicans in the state defected and supported his Democratic opponent, current Gov. Laura Kelly, because of his outlandish and offensive views.

He then announced that he was running for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by Sen. Pat Roberts (R), who is retiring.

Kobach’s views on immigration and LGBTQ issues are extreme. He has said that same-sex parents are….

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