“It’s official! The national GOP platform has been stripped of all anti-LGBT language! Inclusion won! Thank you @realDonaldTrump!”

This untrue statement was published July 15th on X (formerly Twitter) by Charles Moran, president of The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR), the nation’s largest group for “LGBT conservatives.” Moments later, his fellow conservative commenters started calling him a pedophile.

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Moran’s post on X included an image of himself standing in a Fox News-branded area of the Republican National Convention and holding up a booklet-sized version of the newly revised Republican Party platform.

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While the platform removed Republicans’ decades-long opposition to same-sex marriage, Chapter 8, Section 1 of the platform says, “Republicans will promote a Culture that values the Sanctity of Marriage, the blessings of childhood, the foundational role of families, and supports working parents. We will end policies that punish families.”

The “sanctity of marriage” is a phrase that has sometimes been used as a dog whistle for heterosexual marriage (that is, marriages that are sanctified and sanctioned by evangelical churches). Trump discriminated against married same-sex couples and their families during his presidency.

The GOP platform also contains numerous sections dedicated to banning LGBTQ+ content from schools and rolling back legal protections for transgender people of all ages. It also promises “religious liberty” protections for Christians who discriminate against queer people as well as a pledge to keep “Christian-hating” individuals out of the country.

Barely 34 minutes later, an X commenter named @itchy wrote, “You are a disgusting pedophile.” He wasn’t alone. Other commenters referred to Moran as “disgusting” and offensive to the Christian God. One commenter wished him good luck in recovering from MPOX, a painful skin disease that spread amongst queer men from 2022 to 2023.